No matter what market your company is in, once your value proposition ages, customers will move on to the next faster, better, or cheaper solution for their changing requirements. Look at the USPS and then examples of how mail is handled in other countries and you’ll see the importance of reinventing your company to keep up with the times.
The core of a company can be accurately compared to the core of the human body — you need brains, bones, and nerves to all work together in order to function properly. The brains are the strategy, the bones are the organizational structure, and the nerves are the culture. If you’re missing any piece of the body, it all falls apart.
Future business leaders will need to be up to speed on terminology. Here is a list of the most basic terms that a CEO has to know.
Corporate strategist and investment banker, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, examines the different facets of investment banking from public offerings, debt and equity securities to M&A and structured finance. Kuhn’s crash course in investment banking will tell a CEO almost all he or she needs to know.
CEO of Omnicom Group’s Diversified Agency Services (DAS), Tom Harrison believes that entrepreneurship is inherent — people are either born with the ability to innovate or they aren’t. Harrison maintains, however, that you can still be successful if you aren’t instinctively entrepreneurial, but you’ll have to compensate.
Many leadership parallels can be drawn between business and the military. Gregory Hartley translated his experience in the U.S. Army Special Forces into a full time career as a director and consultant to companies. Hartley shares with ChiefExecutive.net the essentials of leadership.
In order to grow your business, you need to have a strong definition of your identity and goals. Norm Levy explains why you need to take the time to ask yourself simple yet crucial questions like “why does my company exist?” or “what are our most important goals?”
A recent list demonstrates how CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison and others became successful despite lack of formal education.
Installing strong leadership is critical to the success of a private equity transaction. But how do you find it?
For the Mondavi brothers, the cup is definitely half full.
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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.
