Got Bobbleheads for Business Buddies?

Here is an important question for all you CEOs out there: – just who are your key business buddies? Are they your high school or college friends, your past work associates, your current corporate directors, your executives that work for you, or that tax accountant / auditor on your account who all too many of [...]

Debt Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Today’s online newspapers have real drawbacks. First, they don’t let you to scan all the news. Second, all too often important articles in the print edition never make it to the paper’s website. And let’s not forget how fewer and fewer people are getting real newspapers delivered these day. As a result, there is a [...]

Risk, Character & New Year Resolutions

It’s January 2010. Welcome to the second decade of the third millennium! To those of you who made New Year resolutions this year, good wishes and good luck achieving your goals. Given that only two weeks has passed since we sang Auld Lang Syne, I trust you still are keeping diligently to all the pledges [...]

Matt Barrett & the CEO Mindset

After a very distinguished and sometimes controversial long career in international financial services, Matt Barrett finally retired three years ago. That’s when he stepped down from being Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC after having been a long serving CEO of both Barclays in the UK and Bank of Montreal in Canada. Here are some career [...]

Failure to Adapt Kills 2 Many Companies

When everything from wealth to glory is on the line, athletes aren’t the only ones who freeze, choke or come up short. But in business, that shouldn’t and doesn’t have to be ‘just the way it is’. It’s entirely normal, if you’re normal, that to some extent for some period of time your brain’s higher-level [...]

Ego & The High Cost of Cheating

Tiger Woods’ GiNORMOUS public flame-out this past week due to marital “transgressions” should serve as a stark warning to everyone about the extreme social ignominy risk that cheaters of all kinds all run as do those who can’t or don’t want to control the egos. Tiger has become as clear a case of ‘the bigger [...]

7 Steps to Selling Your Business

Interested in selling your business some day and have time now to watch a short, well-done video on the steps involved in? Well then, check out this 5 1/2 minute long piece by John Warrillow from the Globe & Mail Newspaper that’s available on their Report on Business | Business Incubator webpage at www.theglobeandmail.com/…/seven-steps-to-selling-a-business Who [...]

Corporate Boards: 14 Questions for You

Attending a company board meeting is ‘serious stuff’, be you director, presenter or just an observer. And given what’s at stake, the people involved, and how impactful the decisions can be, it’s no wonder there’s a palatable sense of electricity and power in the air when boards convene. Are There Governance Problems? What we need [...]

Lehman Bros: What Failure Felt Like

It’s been a year since the bloodshed on Wall Street took Lehman Brothers down. Finally, stories about what really caused their downfall are starting to filter out. And oh boy, what juicy business lessons there are to learn in all of it. September 15, 2008 was the date of Lehman’s demise. Their bankruptcy filing came [...]

Why CEO’s Are Blind To Trouble!

With all the ‘buck stops here’, ‘chain of command’ and ‘celebrity CEO’ rhetoric going around, it’s pretty clear today what politically-correct modern business theory demands – your wholehearted support of the following notion: CEOs should be all powerful. And for ego accommodation, scrutiny avoidance, and ease-of-management reasons, most who hold these positions and those who [...]

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