Best Practices Illustrations
With our frequent interactions with mid-market CEOs, we often catch them doing something ingenious that we know other CEOs would benefit from. So we interview them and write up their smart moves, our analysis of these moves and how and when they are applicable.
Ceil McCloy, CEO and her husband Dave Dobson, Co-Founder of Integrated Science Solutions, Inc. (ISSI), brought in outside board members as a strategic decision. Often businesses pay only lip service to their Board, just barely fulfilling legal requirements. But bolstering the Board’s role in oversight of your business can be very beneficial, as it has for ISSI.
David Gensler, Executive Director of Gensler first faced the challenges of operating worldwide back in the 1980’s: he’s had a few decades’ head start on most of us. Read how the company’s experiences in China became a global strategy.
Nothing is for sure with big, broad constituencies. The bigger the group, the more variation there will be in how people react to needed change. Jim Harrison, CEO of MLSListings Inc., shows us how the patient leader listens to everyone, never reacts impulsively, and works in the interest of building consensus.
CEOs aren’t in sales, but they have a critical role to play. Dennis Raefield of Mace Security International (OTCQB: MACE) shows us that the proactive CEO is key in landing and retaining key customers.
Two companies merge to gain economies of scale and to create an industry leader. How many times have we heard this story only to be disappointed by the results? Where 2+2 equaled 3?
Dealing with government regulations can slow a business plan down, especially when you’re dealing with a multi-level bureaucracy. Eric McAfee, CEO of AE Biofuels, went to the top floor of the pyramid to get action.