Prioritize Your Culture Always—Not Just When It’s Easy
No one is immune to hard times, but your values cannot take a backseat when business gets tough. Here are four steps to keep culture in the forefront when the waters get choppy.
No one is immune to hard times, but your values cannot take a backseat when business gets tough. Here are four steps to keep culture in the forefront when the waters get choppy.
The idea of CEOs publicly discussing or displaying their faith may seem anachronistic at best. At worst, it can lead to high-profile PR misfires.
When letting someone go you should immediately state the outcome, not to lead up to it, and then to take all the time necessary to explain the reasoning behind it as well as the details of support that will follow.
The screen is our interactive window for productivity. However, at what point does time in front of the screen actually jeopardize individual and team productivity, health, culture, and success?
If Amazon’s runaway success demonstrates nothing else, it is that a company learn to successfully self-organize. Accepting a company’s de-evolution into the toxic trap of fiefdoms is basically an act of sabotage.So why do so many companies succumb to fiefdom culture in the first place?
CEOs don’t pay enough attention their health and overall wellbeing, says Steiner Sports CEO Brandon Steiner. He spoke with Chief Executive about why a CEO’s body is a business.
Much like a basketball team, symphony orchestra and Army Ranger unit, it is not too difficult to spot when leadership teams don’t pay sufficient attention to the fundamentals. Here are a few indicators.
As you are faced with decisions, use your values to help you determine what to do. Making values-based decisions sends a strong message to your team about the character of your leadership.
Right as his real investment company was heating up, Monte Lee-Wen, founder and CEO of the PPA Group, got kicked in the face—literally and metaphorically. He shares his story with us.
Eugenio Pace, CEO of identity management technology company Auth0, on how the company has been able to enjoy significant growth and maintain its culture at the same time.
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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.