An Ounce or a Pound?
Preventive Medicine for your Strategy Strategies and the plans crafted to implement them contain a lot of internal moving parts and external assumptions (i.e., bets) about the environment (i.e., markets and customers). It doesn’t take much for a strategic plan to fly off the rails. Just as preventive medicine consistently practiced buys down a lot […]
Your “Go to” place for AI
During Covid, Vistage did a great job of creating resources for its members to cope with the uncertainty of the pandemic. It is now doing the same to help our CEO and other members understand and make decisions concerning AI. Vistage members, and non-members, can now access Vistage’s “Artificial Intelligence Resource Centers”. If you missed it, be […]
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 […]
For Our Friends Outside the C-Level 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: A Goldilocks Economy?
“This is not Goldilocks. If you want to understand where the economy is right now, you need to get comfortable with ambiguity” says Dr. Brian Wesbury. If there’s a recession coming, you wouldn’t know it from Friday labor market headlines with new jobs great exceeding forecasts and the unemployment rate dropping to a new low of 3.4% Dr. […]
ChatRooms:
The Godfather Speaks AI and Your Kid’s Career The Dangers of MFA The Godfather Speaks: Few people understand Artificial Intelligence better than one of its pioneers, Geoffrey Hinton, who resigned from Google last week to better speak his mind on his concerns about AI which “he says may soon grow smarter than-and even manipulate-humans.” Find out why “The ‘Godfather […]
Postmortem: Bed, Bath and Beyond
If the death of a company was treated like a homicide, at some point the coroner would produce a postmortem report. In the case of the demise of Bed, Bath and Beyond, few people are more qualified to produce that report than retailing guru, Professor Barbara Kahn at The Wharton School at the University of […]
Compliments for Dummies
Who doesn’t love a compliment? But do you know what do with a compliment once received? Customer service guru Shep Hyken does. In a brief blog post, he outlines a process for truly realizing the full value of gift that often isn’t just for you. Learn the Five Steps to Acknowledging a Compliment. You probably know the […]
Story or Data?
“We consistently outsold people who had better technology because we knew how to put the story before the customer.” If you need a testimonial for the power of storytelling, that statement from IBM founder Thomas Watson is hard to beat. If may be the source of the old aphorism, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” We’ve […]
Mark Twain on Economics
One of America’s greatest writers, Mark Twain, is said to remarked “It ain’t what you know to get you into trouble, it’s what you know that just ain’t so.” Applying this to economics, few topics suffer more misconceptions than the minimum wage and the distribution of wealth, especially among young people. If you’d like some proof, consider a […]
