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Four Elements That Can Transform Challenges Into High Performance

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Craig Ross |
Strategy - Leadership |
Thu, 09/17/2015 - 21:12

What elements are necessary for a team to achieve high performance? You may find yourself mentally listing off things like a strong work ethic or the ability to get through projects quickly and efficiently. While these are essential to success, there is another element you wouldn’t typically expect – how a team views failure or unexpected outcomes.

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Protecting the C-Suite During Key Milestones in a Company’s Growth

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Guest Blogger |
Strategy - Management |
Wed, 09/16/2015 - 22:23

the ceo magazine, mergers and acquisitions,

Jeff Van Gulick, Practice Leader & Executive Risk Specialist, HUB International

Insuring directors and officers through M&A and IPO events

Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. But, these transactions can also be the impetus for legal recourse - a significant liability for the company’s directors and officers.

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Rethinking the S.W.O.T. Analysis

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Dan & Kieran |
Strategy |
Mon, 09/14/2015 - 20:33

Anyone who’s sat through a strategic workshop at anytime during the past decade will be familiar with the SWOT analysis. Simply put, it stands for Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats and has informed not only planning days and leadership forums but also a large majority of the decisions that executive teams have made regarding the future of their businesses.

The logic is rarely questioned – play to your strengths, sure up your weaknesses, and be vigilant to opportunities and threats.

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Ethics Feeds Innovation

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Mark Pastin |
Strategy - Self Governance - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management - Marketing |
Wed, 08/19/2015 - 05:59

Ethics brings to mind dusty volumes of impenetrable text, heated arguments that go nowhere, and an overbearing concern with political correctness. But my thirty years as an ethics consultant has taught me something different. Ethics is really about releasing the forces of innovation in an organization. The reason for this is simple. To have ethics in an organization is to have ways in which employees can jump the line of command without fear of reprisal. And this same jump-the-line-of-command philosophy can make innovation a powerful organizational force.

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Why an Enemy is Good for Business

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Dan & Kieran |
Strategy |
Tue, 08/18/2015 - 23:42

The self-help industry and the associated cult of positivity often leave us with an incomplete picture of the environment we find ourselves in. We end up seeing only opportunity without risk and end up relying on hope as a strategy.

But just as crucially, this partial view of reality robs us of the positive potential that negative influences can exert on us.

The story of the aging executive who suffers a heart attack only to turn their lives around and become a health enthusiast is almost cliché, and yet it’s an important reminder that bad news isn’t always bad for us.