In M&A, What You Don’t Know, Can Hurt You
When making an acquisition, you only get one chance to find the flaws in your new mate. After that, you bear the brunt of what you missed.
When making an acquisition, you only get one chance to find the flaws in your new mate. After that, you bear the brunt of what you missed.
As one CEO put it: “Everything involved with the economy is dependent upon who is elected POTUS in November.”
Not everyone in your C-Suite is a superstar, so you need to divvy up the compensation pie accordingly, rather than average it in pursuit of “fairness.”.
As more and more companies are learning, when it comes to recruiting, engagement and productivity, face-to-face office culture is highly overrated.
The coronavirus may be jumpstarting a global slowdown. Take these three steps to ensure you not only survive, but come out ahead when it’s over.
To avoid a similar debacle, CEOs and boards need to be consistently managing their exposure to potential risks in executing their strategy.
The legal fees they earn for class-action suits will come from the companies they sue—and, ultimately, from the consumers who buy their products.
The challenge is to move beyond “brute force leadership” and build a team that utilizes positive characteristics of leading in a crisis—but sets aside the dysfunction.
Lorna Davis, advisor to Danone’s CEO, says this new era requires chiefs to step outside their traditional boundaries for collaboration.
Only about one-third of workers strongly trust their company’s leadership. If you want to be in that third, make overcommunication your new modus operandi.
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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.