Chief Executive asked 15 CEOs across industries and business size ranges for their insights on the biggest challenges and opportunities in the year to come. Here’s what they had to say.
More CEOs and company founders are being lured to “smart” cities that have built fast fiber-optic networks, highly digitally connected municipal-government infrastructures, expectations that they will stay at the forefront in business-supporting technologies—or some combination thereof.
U.S. manufacturing CEOs are coming under more pressure than ever today to apply sustainability filters when they build new plants, or refurbish or expand old ones. And more business chiefs bring internal motivations to their rising consideration of not only environmental but also local economic and social impacts of these decisions.
Procter & Gamble and General Motors are leading a small but growing group of manufacturers beginning to embrace wind power, which so far has been among the least embraceable forms of alternative production of electricity.
The patent system has gotten a pretty poor reputation of late, especially among businesses that have been targeted by patent trolls hoping to extort a quick settlement from them. But CEOs and other senior executives should remember that even if the occasional troll can game the system to extort an innocent business, patents themselves—and a strategy for how to employ them to achieve critical business objectives—are often essential to a company’s success.
A new study shows that CEO succession plans are often more talk than action, Fortune says.
It’s not easy being a pharma CEO. The industry is currently taking a PR beating for raising the prices of its drugs, and not just for new medicines, but also ones that have been in the market for decades. But pharma CEOs counter that it’s increasingly tough to cover R&D expenses, though they are finding other ways to mitigate costs, including slashing other types of expenses and buying competitors.
More mid-market company owners and CEOs are considering exit strategies these days, especially with U.S. markets improving and so many business leaders in the boomer generation coming into retirement age.
Most CEOs are concerned with increasing margins, improving quality, ensuring customer satisfaction, and decreasing talent turnover. They are shaping a company, and CEOs dwell mainly in the big picture; but here are 4 great reasons to pay more attention to your frontline employees.
The pursuit of new drugs is just one way to navigate the “innovate or exit” pharma world.
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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.
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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.
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General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
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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.
