2010 July

Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

I just got out of a meeting with the CEO at a client where the meeting began by him asking me the Read More

Why Does Activision/Blizzard Want to Pull its Members Pants Down?

Why Does Activision/Blizzard Want to Pull its Members Pants Down?

Activision/Blizzard’s online role playing game World of Warcraft (WOW) continues to amaze me.  With more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers it is one of the most Read More

Which CEOs Are You Talking About?

Which CEOs Are You Talking About?

Some of what I’m reading lately about businesses and particularly CEOs concerns me deeply.   Most of America’s CEOs, like those who are Read More

Need An Alignment?

Need An Alignment?

When I think about the term alignment, it usually conjures images of letting go of the steering wheel while driving along an open road. If Read More

Every Strength Has A Shadow, Every Weakness Has A Shield

Every Strength Has A Shadow, Every Weakness Has A Shield

Human beings are very interesting creatures.  We are all so vastly different and complex in our personalities, characteristics and mannerisms, yet also very similar in biological Read More

Why Small Businesses Are Confident About the Future

Why Small Businesses Are Confident About the Future

Just last week we released the results of our Vistage CEO Confidence Index . We had over 1,600 CEO responses to a broad Read More

6 reasons Why George Steinbrenner Was a Marketing Genius

6 reasons Why George Steinbrenner Was a Marketing Genius

Full disclosure – first and foremost, I am die-hard Met fan.   It is not really possible for me to ever root for the Yankees although as Read More

Sam Arthur, The Perfect Character

Sam Arthur, The Perfect Character

Last week, I posted at my blog Client Service Insights (CSI) for the last time in favor of becoming a regular contributor here.  I’ll Read More

Congratulations Bob Fritz on Being Named the Ernst &Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year

Congratulations Bob Fritz on Being Named the Ernst &Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year

Vistage member Bob Fritz was named the 2010 Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of The Year in Northeast Ohio.

Here’s an excerpt from the article Read More

The dirty secret to successful online marketing and Achrontastic Maltesia

The dirty secret to successful online marketing and Achrontastic Maltesia

What I’m about to tell you is the number one secret to achieving results on the Internet. I’m also going to back that secret up Read More

Do Your Innovation Emperor, Rules & Idea Management Help or Hinder the Process?

Do Your Innovation Emperor, Rules & Idea Management Help or Hinder the Process?

In the pursuit of innovation, many “enlightened” companies try to follow what they believe are established morays and best practices.

They install someone to manage Read More

A World Without IT Support

A World Without IT Support

I had a dream.  I was the CEO of a business, and we didn’t have to buy any servers or have an IT department.  Our email was Read More

Are You Using the Recession to Upgrade Your Team?

Are You Using the Recession to Upgrade Your Team?

Every recession provides a special opportunity to grab top talent that you might otherwise never have the chance to acquire.

You might ask “What is Read More

Will Dell Computer’s breaking of its promise be its downfall?

Will Dell Computer’s breaking of its promise be its downfall?

If you read the article in the NY Times this past Monday http://nyti.ms/cLeFl6  you saw that Dell Computer had a series of problems with its computers Read More

The Courage Of Our “Founding Fathers”

The Courage Of Our “Founding Fathers”

As we get set to celebrate another  Independence Day here in the Unites States, I believe it warrants  mentioning the obvious courage that had to be

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How to Avoid a Bad Decision – Small Business Owners Can Help Themselves

How to Avoid a Bad Decision – Small Business Owners Can Help Themselves

Bad decisions happen. In our hurried 90 mph business pace it is, perhaps, inevitable. Sometimes, it’s not so much the essence of the decision, however, Read More

Ze French just don’t get it – will the United States?

It’s not been a great week for La Belle France.  First their World Cup Soccer team – champions in 1998, (or Futbol as it is there) Read More

But it Doesn’t Work Like Our Old Software!?

But it Doesn’t Work Like Our Old Software!?

I heard it again.  “It doesn’t work like our old software”.   You work in this business long enough, and there are some standard catch phrases you tend Read More