Cults and Contrarians
These two graphics about thinking will should be kept on everyone’s desk. Both are from Adam Grant’s book “Think Again.” Check his website and newsletter for much more on this remarkable thought leader.
The Year in Charts
Hopefully, you had a chance to chill out over the holidays and just enjoy the Season. Before we get too far into the New Year, let’s take a minute to review what happened in 2022. There’s a number of reasons to be glad that 2022 is behind us, but before you do…ask yourself: What Just Happened?.…then take a […]
An Innovation Primer
No serious executive would ever say that innovation was not important…but many have little real acquaintance with the concept or its history outside their own industry (if that ). Spend a few minutes with this executive summary of Long Waves: The History of Innovation Cycles from Visual Capitalist. It describes the Five Waves of Innovation since […]
Six Deadly Verbs
Boomers will remember the late comedian George Carlin’s famous “The Seven Words You Can’t Say on Television.” (You can Google them if this was before you time). But there are half a dozen words almost anyone can say anywhere and anytime, but if a C-level executive utters them, they can create instant damage to credibility. This […]
Wisdom from the “Terminator”
America is often thought of as the land of the “self-made” man or woman. If we think of people who have “come from nothing” to great fame, fortune, or contribution we think of the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Madam Curie, Ronald Reagan, Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger? Perhaps best known for his […]
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. I will feature […]
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
Who’s driving this thing?: We all have different roles in the economy based on our particular jobs, industry or sector we work in and whether we are investors or managers (or both). But the one thing we all have in common regardless of our role in the economy: we are all consumers. As a recent ITR Economics blog […]
Worth Following
LinkedIn has become the new business card. But it’s not just a networking tool, it is the source of some excellent curated information. From time to time, I have share contributions from a wide variety of thought leaders that I follow on LinkedIn, but there are two that I think you may wish to follow on LinkedIn […]
Retention through Attention
One of the first rules in warfare is not lose the ground you’ve gained. In the “War for Talent” this is retaining the employees you have. Vistage employment law expert Hunter Lott suggests that 2023 will be an even more challenging year than 2022 in terms of retaining our employees. In his most recent “Take 5 with […]
