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I agree with Peter Drucker that this one is overrated when running a company. Skill in management is much more important. Nevertheless, leadership can be a useful skill, and it's much simpler than you'd believe by reading or listening to…

I said last time that to function as a CEO, you need a team that doesn’t depend on you for day to day successes. It's hard to build a team like that. Impossible if you don't understand today's topic. Bigger…

I'm not advocating it - just asking you to think what the ramifications would be. Knowing how your absence would affect your company gives insight into what role you really play. The extremes are: Everything would go to hell in…

Solving problems is a typically American approach. We see the West to be conquered, the space race to be won, the journey as a destination, the problem to be solved. And to be sure, there are problems in your business.…

What does a CEO do all day? What do you do all day? Is it good or bad if the answers are not the same? Most business of our size get started because a person can make something or sell…

There's a real gulf between an entrepreneurial business where you can do anything through harder work and an ongoing sustainable business that is run through good management technique. - Bob Jones, owner The Chef's Garden. I think that says it…

"When you're up to your eyeballs in alligators, it's hard to remember that you set out to drain the swamp.". Many clients come to me in that situation. And they feel paralyzed with so many emergencies they don't see how…

Being a leaders means people follow you. That's all. If you look historically at the leaders that people followed fiercely, you'll find some of the most destructive, self-serving, and vicious leaders in government, religion and yes business. Hitler was Time…

I've been asked whether management is one or the other. How we ask a question often blinds us to a useful answer. Management, like most aspects of running a business involves both. My quick distinction is that the science of…

I read somewhere that many of the clients of Dominatrixes (what is the plural of dominatrix?) are CEOs - people who spend all day calling the shots and answering to no one. They have a psychological need to be bossed…