Your “Other” Customers
“A recent survey that found 60% of millennials would take a 20% pay cut if it meant that they could work fewer hours.” In his latest “Take 5” video, Vistage speaker and Employment Law/Workplace expert Hunter Lott parses this data and challenges his viewers to consider what will be needed for your business to attract talent […]
The Peril of Size
SMB (small to medium size businesses) executives often envy (and hate) giant companies because their size can give them advantages (real and perceived) that the SMB don’t enjoy. At the same time, most SMB’s dream of a day when they too are giants in their markets. Be careful what you ask for. You may get it. Executives will […]
Jim Collins at West Point
Speaking of Jim Collins….Several years ago, Mr. Collins decamped to the US Military Academy at West Point to study leadership. In this five-part interview in Chief Executive Magazine he shares what he learned: (1) On Leadership in America (2) The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs (3) The Big Question (4) The Big Takeaways and (5) The Case for […]
Guess Who’s 40?
The defining product of the last half century has been the personal computer. The advances in computing technology have been breathtaking, but perhaps even more important is how “personal” the personal computer has become. To wit, the Apple Macintosh. Early in 1984, Apple announced the introduction of the “Mac” with what some think is the best Super […]
Women Leaders and Vistage
Vistage’s remarkable growth to 45,000 members in 30 countries has been fueled to a remarkable extent by the increasing number or women running small to medium size business. If you know a woman who could benefit from Vistage membership, please forward this short article from the Vistage site: “9 ways women are using peer advisory groups to […]
Best Blogs
I resource material for your “edification, enlightenment, and enjoyment” from many sources. I will continue to provide specific recommendations as above for the content I think is worthwhile. But if you don’t find anything to your liking above, check out this list of the best (in my opinion) blogs, websites etc. for the C-Level Executive from proven […]
For Our Friends Outside the Vistage Family
These webinars from Vistage Research are available to Vistage Members and Non-members alike.Cutting-Edge Decision-Making Resources from Vistage ResearchEvents open to Members and non-Members
Econ Recon
The Winter of our Stagflation: The government’s intervention in the economy introduced a lot of unusual noise into the data economists use to forecast. “But underneath it all,” writes economist Brian Wesbury, “we still believe Milton Friedman had it right. A decline in money will lead to recession, and then a decline in inflation.” Check out his […]
The Drucker Memo
Everyone in your company has someone to manage them, except CEOs and many at the C-Level. You don’t get to, and stay at, this level unless you can manage yourself. Daniel Pink (author of “To Sell is Human” and “The Power of Regret”) reminds us of a powerful method suggested by the late, great management writer Peter Drucker that […]
Ozempic for the C-Suite
In his “No Mercy, No Malice” blog, entrepreneur and NYU Professor Scott Galloway looks at two innovations of the post-Covid era that promise to have profound effects on how we live: Ozempic and Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Gallow ingeniously uses the impact of Ozempic (aka GLP-1 drugs) to explain how AI is already impacting how CEOs are thinking […]
