Vistage Webinars for All
For Our Friends Outside the C-Level FamilyThese 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
COVID Tracker:
CovidActNowIHME (Institute for Health Metrics) Projections. Our World in DataCase Fatality Rate – Ticking down a little.Deaths – US Deaths per million people, Down a littleHospital Admissions – continuing to drop in the US
Econ Recon
Prices Getting Right: Absent some external shock to the system (e.g., Covid), most of the significant aspects of the economy don’t change overnight. The unemployment rate, interest rates, GDP etc. typically change relatively slowly and the change is often well underway before we became aware of it in our employment or financial lives, at which point they […]
Debrief Yourself
We’re all familiar with the concept of feedback and debriefing. We give feedback to subordinates regarding their decisions; others give feedback to us. But how often do you evaluate your own decisions? Daniel Pink (author of “Drive” and “To Sell is Human”) offers a simple technique that requires a “note to self” about your expectations around something you have […]
Smart People, Terrible Decisions
What makes humans different from animals (in my opinion) is that not only that can we think, but that we can think about thinking. Much of education is teaching us about what to think, but the best education teaches us how to think. A collection of short articles from the Farnum Street blog, “How to Make Smart Decisions Without Getting Lucky” offer 10 […]
A $100 Million Map
The pandemic created waves of unexpected change. The heath, and very lives of millions were the primary effect, but every event can have “second order effects”; often significant ones. Regarding Covid, such effects have been seen in the form of a strong housing market, work from home options, booming stock market and an upside-down talent market to […]
Elizabeth: Substance and Symbolism
The world seemed to have stopped on Thursday when the world’s longest reigning monarch passed away, less than two days after having received the traditional first visit by the UK’s new Prime Minister. Queen Elizabeth II was working until the very end. She needs no memorial from me, but she was too exemplary a leader […]
Inertia in every Aisle
In Econ 101 we learned that companies who are making significant profits will attract competitors, resulting in the former ceding excess profitability to the latter. That theory doesn’t take into account the “switching costs” to be overcome when trying to get a new customer to try a new offering. Call it “consumer inertia.” The tension between […]
The Coldest Call (Part 3 of 3)
The Coldest Call (Part 3 of 3) Vistage Speaker Patrick Ungashick has helped hundreds of members get ready to exit their company. In the past two editions of this missive, I’ve shared the first two articles of three that he shared regarding “What You Should Do with ALL Those Unsolicited Offers to Buy Your Business? Part […]
A “Quiet Quitting” Sampler
A “Quiet Quitting” Sampler Since featuring it several weeks ago, there have been quite a few articles on the latest challenge employers are facing in the War for Talent: Quiet Quitting”, most simply described as doing nothing more than a job requires with no thought to advancement, etc. I offer here a sampling on the […]
