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Simple Ideas to Improve the Value of Your Business

Simple Ideas to Improve the Value of Your Business

Many companies who are looking to sell their company are constantly looking for small business valuation ideas.  Let’s face it, selling a company can Read More

5 Things Every CEO Needs to Know

5 Things Every CEO Needs to Know

Today CEO’s are in a quagmire. They are finding themselves running their business’s, making CEO decisions yet having to either manage a sales department or Read More

[Podcast] Key Steps for Business Succession

[Podcast] Key Steps for Business Succession

Tad Waldbauer serves as a First Vice President of Investments at UBS Financial Services Inc and is a partner in the Amato-Waldbauer Group, which focuses Read More

Ride Your Elevator Pitch To The Top

Ride Your Elevator Pitch To The Top

Every businessperson has had the experience of being asked, “what does your company do?”  Sometimes we’re expecting this question and we’re ready to pounce with Read More

The Economics of Trust with Stephen M.R. Covey

The Economics of Trust with Stephen M.R. Covey

Stephen M.R. Covey presented the final keynote of Vistage’s 2013 Think Big Conference in Grapevine, Texas. Covey opened with a touching tribute to his father, Read More

Dan Pink – Unscripted

Dan Pink – Unscripted

Dan Pink opened his keynote at the Vistage Think Big Conference by warning the audience his speech would not be drawn from his most recent Read More

Is Your Business Locked in a Golden Cage?

Is Your Business Locked in a Golden Cage?

If Steve Jobs were still running Apple, would the map application released with the iPhone 5 have been so disappointing? This mishap contains a subtle Read More

[Podcast] Extreme Productivity

[Podcast] Extreme Productivity

Bob Pozen is the author Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce your Hours, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and a senior fellow Read More

Stay Inspired This Holiday Season – The 12 Days of Innovation

Stay Inspired This Holiday Season – The 12 Days of Innovation

Robert’s Rules of Innovation wishes you and yours a wonderful Holiday Season.

May you stay inspired in 2013!

Tis’ the Season for harrowing crowds, spiked Read More

Why Do things the Hard Way: How Referrals & Introductions Could Double your Business Today!

Why Do things the Hard Way: How Referrals & Introductions Could Double your Business Today!

For nearly 20 years I have asked clients why they don’t get referrals, and the response is almost always “I forget to ask.”

This is Read More

Opportunities Multiply As They Are Seized:  Achieving Clarity & Accountability In Strategic Planning

Opportunities Multiply As They Are Seized: Achieving Clarity & Accountability In Strategic Planning

The origins of strategic planning come from the military, dating as far back as the 6th Century BC. Even Webster’s New World Dictionary defines strategy Read More

1-800 Flowers.com CEO Jim McCann on Creating Balance in Business

1-800 Flowers.com CEO Jim McCann on Creating Balance in Business

Jim McCann, CEO of 1-800 Flowers.com sheds light on what it means to be a CEO, and describes how many of his duties are ‘behind-the-scenes’. Read More

USAA CEO Josue Robles on Growing Your Business around a Niche Market

USAA CEO Josue Robles on Growing Your Business around a Niche Market

Joe Robles, President and CEO of USAA, discusses the company’s unique business model that has allowed unprecedented company growth over the past few decades. Read More

Applying Technology Principles to Your Business

Applying Technology Principles to Your Business

Most of us have a lot to learn from the technology sector. A fundamental shift is underway, as many companies are recognizing the need to Read More

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

This is the second year I’ve enjoyed the privilege of attending the Milken Institute Global Conference, and I’m left with the same feeling I Read More

8 Lessons for Business Success From An Ironman

8 Lessons for Business Success From An Ironman

Triathlons have been a big part of my life for several years. On November 20, 2011, I completed my 9th Ironman in Tempe, Arizona with Read More

Google+ For Business: A Talk With Chris Brogan

Google+ For Business: A Talk With Chris Brogan

Over holidays, I read two books that I enjoyed very much:  Google + For Business by Chris Brogan and True North Groups by Bill George Read More

Finding the Keys to Business Success

Finding the Keys to Business Success

This week on The CEO TV Show we were fortunate enough to interview Lynn Tilton, CEO of Patriarch Partners who is a self made billionaire Read More

Well Meaning Communication

Well Meaning Communication

This post is not about meaning well.  It’s about clearly defining terms you commonly share with your clients or employees.  It’s about caring enough to Read More

Why Eco and People Friendly Businesses are Smart Businesses

Why Eco and People Friendly Businesses are Smart Businesses

John Paul DeJoria, founder and CEO of both Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron Spirits explained why eco and people friendly businesses are smart businesses on Read More

Corporate Sponsored Events and Drinking

Corporate Sponsored Events and Drinking

Recently I received a call from a client advising that there was going to be a meeting. The actual memo that was issued to all Read More

Kid Rock Cares

Kid Rock Cares

It was a late afternoon, just over a week ago, and I was sitting in a board of directors meeting.  You can envision the scene:  Read More

The Agility Gap

The Agility Gap

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

Asset Protection: Why It’s More Important Than Ever for Your Personal and Business Finances

Asset Protection: Why It’s More Important Than Ever for Your Personal and Business Finances

“Own nothing, but control everything,” said John D. Rockefeller, the 20th century’s wealthiest American and widely considered the world’s richest man.

Because he was so Read More

Interpreting Economic News: A Matter of Degrees

Interpreting Economic News: A Matter of Degrees

Here we go again. A wave of uneven economic new items about housing, employment and equities have made some entrepreneurs queasy. Should companies shift their Read More