As CEO, to whom so many look for guidance, your every interaction carries import. To ensure you’re sending the right messages, it’s critical to think, reflect and seek to understand the impact of your micro-interactions.
In this edition of our Corporate Competitor Podcast, Charles Watson, CEO of Tropical Smoothie Café shares insights on how businesses need both generalists and specialists.
The most innovative leaders actively, and consistently, create numerous categories of ideas, rather than simply seeking lots of them.
It’s easy to overlook these opportunities in the daily grind, but even a slight tweak in a process, a minor adjustment in product design or a subtle change in team dynamics can have outsized impact on the bottom line. Here’s how to find the next big win hiding in plain sight.
In a phase of rapid growth, you have to ensure leadership is growing alongside the company. Here’s one CEO who got it right.
Forget FOMO—the ‘sameness dilemma’ is corrosive to growth, opportunity and true innovation. As Patagonia discovered, forging a company’s own path means embracing disruption.
In this episode of the Corporate Competitor Podcast, Great Clips CEO Steve Hockett shares why the challenges of playing on sand made him a better golfer.
Facing on impasse on how to proceed with the struggling company, all seven independent directors at 23andMe resigned. Here’s how CEOs and boards can avoid a similar end.
How much you trust your customers, employees and suppliers—or don’t—is reflected in your processes. Ten steps to get on the right track.
Taking on a chief executive role comes with new responsibilities—and possible misconceptions. These reminders put it in perspective.
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1:00 - 5:00 pm
Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.
