Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson is an agility pioneer, dedicated to cracking the code of organizational agility for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things, making possible tomorrow what seems impossible today. Whether with his own members as a Vistage Chair, other members as a Vistage Resource Speaker, his clients as a facilitator, his audiences as a keynote speaker or his readers as an author, he is pioneering new understandings, new strengths and new intelligences for organizational agility. He helps CEOs, executives, managers and their teams master the whole challenge, the whole problem and the whole solution of being In the Driving Seat of their businesses, translating strategy and execution into traction while avoiding wheel-spin (www.mydrivingseat.com)
Mike is the author of ‘Wheel$pin! Regaining Traction in a Fast Changing Business World by Maximizing Your Organizational Agility’ (www.wheelspinbook.com).
Mike is a scientist, turned engineer, turned manager, executive and CEO, with 25 years in the Oil & Gas, Aerospace and Automotive industries, running small-to-medium sized and fast-moving businesses and ending up on the management team of a British public corporation, running the Aerospace Division. He is British turned American with an MBA from London Business School and diverse international experience.
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
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Recent Posts by Mike
It’s time for a heart to HEART about business success!
Business these days is not for the faint of heart. Nobody believes in the Read More
Thought-flow is a leading indicator of cash-flow. Cash-flow is a trailing indicator of thought-flow. The cash-flow you have today is a result of the thought-flow leading up Read More
Mistake #1:
Moving Too Slow
Mistake #2:
Tolerating Chronic Chaos
The majority of managers, executives, CEOs, teams and organizations are getting increasingly overwhelmed these days. The accelerating speed of business, pace of change and unprecedented volatility, Read More
Prosperity comes from getting what you want and protecting what you get, in business and in life, and integrating your definitions of success and happiness. Read More
The demands upon our agility these days often exceed our ability to supply. That leaves an agility gap, as an organization, as a team and Read More
Rupert Murdoch must be asking himself that right now. What just happened? How did I get here? In particular, that day he was hauled in front Read More
Agility is a three dimensional challenge of leadership and management. It always has been and always will be. Mastering these three dimensions of Read More
Agility is complicated (The Secrets of Organizational Agility #2: It’s Complicated in Three Dimensions ) and, as a result, it’s an “AND” proposition (The Secrets Read More
Anyone who suggests that agility is simple, about keeping things loose and unstructured, and focusing on cash as king, is wrong! They are likely to Read More
For the majority of managers, executives and CEOs , organizational agility is an ordeal. They are increasingly getting overwhelmed, falling behind and wondering why. On the other Read More
Our agility as organizations, teams and executives is being tested like never before these days and we are prone to falling for mythical solutions (Read More
Change has changed, becoming much more like a dynamic journey on a shifting landscape. The speed of business and pace of change are accelerating all the Read More
When there is less and less we can count with any certainty these days, we must be able to count more and more on Read More
With the new normal of unprecedented turbulence, uncertainty and volatility, our organizational agility is getting tested these days like never before:
Organizational Agility Read More