What Leadership Teams Think They’ve Decided—But Haven’t
What looks like alignment in the boardroom is often unresolved strategy in disguise, setting execution up to fail months before it begins.
What looks like alignment in the boardroom is often unresolved strategy in disguise, setting execution up to fail months before it begins.
For many CEOs, leaving well is the most important and lasting leadership responsibility they will ever perform.
Nine cities and 14 events over four blurry months. With a moment to exhale, here are a handful of ideas that continue to stick with me.
The CEOs best prepared for the increasingly volatile future are the ones with the clearest operating logic, and the discipline to make every major decision fit it.
The managers who miss their numbers aren’t your biggest concern. It’s the ones who appear to be doing just fine—while quietly driving disengagement and pushing high performers toward the exit.
Ricardo Semler’s radical management philosophy transformed Semco from a traditional manufacturer into a global case study in organizational innovation. Here’s his practical roadmap for replacing hierarchy with autonomy, while keeping directors, managers and skeptics onside.
This founder built her business by helping families plan for aging before a crisis hits. Now she’s taking that preventative, relationship-driven model nationwide.
AI is the latest test of a 250-year pattern. Every wave of disruption has handed America a richer, more dynamic economy than the one it replaced. The CEOs who understood that won the future. So will the next ones.
AI is a powerful tool for business authors, but the executives who see the greatest return use it to accelerate the writing process—not replace original thinking.
The path to standing out often begins with the discipline to disappear into the training, until excellence makes you impossible to ignore.
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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.