Business Strategy and Management Archives - Executive Street

There are times to work in your business and there are times to work on your business. The Business Strategy and Management category hosts content dedicated to the time executives spend planning for the future.

Valuation Services Can Lower the Stress of Selling Your Business

Valuation Services Can Lower the Stress of Selling Your Business

Before you even learn about the details of how valuation services can help you in selling your business, consider the fact that having a professional Read More

Conflict Management Rule 7:  Manage the How and the What will Take Care of Itself

Conflict Management Rule 7: Manage the How and the What will Take Care of Itself

From Geese’s Eight Simple Rules to Conflict Management

There are two components to every argument/conflict…the conflicting issue (the what) and the interpersonal dynamics during Read More

What are Your Company Values?

What are Your Company Values?

Many companies spend a great deal of time and money to articulate company values, but do not necessarily implement them around the office. David Friedman Read More

How CEOs Can Profit from 3PR

How CEOs Can Profit from 3PR

An independent research with over 700 professional services for CEOs proves that the #1 source of business is “making warm calls to existing clients” – Read More

Future-Proofing Your Business:  How Sustainable is your Sustainability?

Future-Proofing Your Business: How Sustainable is your Sustainability?

These days, sustainability can be short lived!  Many businesses think they have a sustainable strategy, sustainable execution, and sustainable leadership…until they don’t!  Just look at Read More

Quick Basics of Corporate Valuation Services

Quick Basics of Corporate Valuation Services

Corporate valuation services are completely different than valuation services for homes and other material possessions. In fact, they are even different from the services offered Read More

5 Ways Sustainability Provides Value When Selling Your Company

5 Ways Sustainability Provides Value When Selling Your Company

Financial performance and trends are the core of discussions in business transactions.  However, non-financial issues involving environmental, social, and other economic issues also make up Read More

Sustainable Leadership: Innovating to Last in the New Reality

Sustainable Leadership: Innovating to Last in the New Reality

by Judith E. Glaser and Jon Entine

WHAT IS ALL THIS TALK ABOUT Sustainability? Is this serious business or another fad or trend that has Read More

Conflict Management Rule 6: Ask For What You Need

Conflict Management Rule 6: Ask For What You Need

From Geese’s Eight Simple Rules to Managing Conflict

I had a love-hate relationship with my old boss. The love part was my incredible respect for Read More

Public Speaking for Executives: The Original Social Media

Public Speaking for Executives: The Original Social Media

You’re blogging. You’re tweeting. You’re linked in. You’re creating videos and articles and ezines.

All of that is great but let’s not forget that social Read More

Women Consumers: The 85% Solution

Women Consumers: The 85% Solution

Did you know that 85% of purchases are made by women consumers (including everything from autos to healthcare)?  That’s a big number waiting for you Read More

Women in Leadership: Who’s on First?

Women in Leadership: Who’s on First?

Leadership and sports tend to go hand in hand… because so many of the analogies made by leaders come from the context of the sports Read More

Creating a Totally Accountable Workplace

Creating a Totally Accountable Workplace

Mike Scott started his own training and development company in July of 1984 and regularly speaks, designs and conducts training programs for both large and Read More

Women in Business: Putting the Right People in the Right Positions

Women in Business: Putting the Right People in the Right Positions

In a recent appearance on Bloomberg, I discussed women in the C-Suite and how businesses should be doing more to put the right people in Read More

Women in Business: Forget About the Glass Ceiling

Women in Business: Forget About the Glass Ceiling

Women are finally getting more attention as important players in business… as leaders, as employees, as entrepreneurs.  Thanks to such people as Sheryl Sandberg and Read More

How Valuation Services Can Help You Sell Your Business

How Valuation Services Can Help You Sell Your Business

Valuation services may seem to be something you can do without, when you get ready to sell your business. After all, you have your balance Read More

Leadership Development: Not Just for Women

Leadership Development: Not Just for Women

As part of our leadership development, my Vistage groups frequently select a book to read as a group. Recently, my Vistage Inside group chose the Read More

Why is Growing Harder than Shrinking?

Why is Growing Harder than Shrinking?

At several of our recent workshops, we have heard a groan coming from CEOs and particularly their executives, about how much harder it is to Read More

Conflict Management Rule 5: Focus Out Before Focusing In

Conflict Management Rule 5: Focus Out Before Focusing In

From Geese’s Eight Simple Rules to Managing Conflict

“I need a volunteer…Greg?”

Wow, that was more like telling than asking, I thought. “Sure Ron, I’d Read More

Types of Asset Valuation Services

Types of Asset Valuation Services

Asset valuation may seem to be a complicated process. This is because most businesses believe the value is shown on balance sheets and income. But Read More

How Upside Down Selling can Grow Your Business

How Upside Down Selling can Grow Your Business

Ian Altman is the author of Upside Down Selling, an Amazon #1 Best Seller.

In this podcast, you will learn:

•          The definition of Read More

It’s About the Process of the Sale

It’s About the Process of the Sale

Ryan, a software sales rep, had a rough day. He’d been bombarded with questions from several customers and gotten behind on work he needed to Read More

Innovation: Walking on the Edge

Innovation: Walking on the Edge

Innovation thrives on a diet of new ideas. It needs new views, fresh thinking; a different perspective from across the organization, from the center to Read More

Business Growth: A Problem

Business Growth: A Problem

Remember: “What got you here won’t get you there.” 

I bet you all remember Marshall Goldsmith’s quote, and his book What Got You Here Won’t Read More

Conflict Management Rule 4: Take the Initiative

Conflict Management Rule 4: Take the Initiative

From Geese’s Eight Simple Rules to Managing Conflict

In the event of a loss of cabin pressure, an oxygen mask will drop from Read More