Executive4sight

“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it”

This famous quote from Albert Einstein rings so true to me. If Einstein needed a picture to understand, be assured it is even truer for employees. I have met with 8 CEOs over the last week. They all had a few things in common:

They are all entrepreneurs They all have great ambitions and aspirations They are all brilliant people They all want to grown their company They all want to "shake" their companies from their torpor

But, as they explained how they were going to shake the torpor, I have to say that all of them were all [...]

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What makes a great CEO?

Let's start with the premise that CEOs are not all equal.

Like in any population, the population of CEOs is grouped according a standard Bell Curve. 2% are exceptionally good, 14% are good, 68% are average, 14% are not good, and 2% are exceptionally bad.

What gives an extra edge for a CEO?

I submit it is a broad base of experiences.

You are looking for a CEO that has successfully acted in multiple industries and varying types of organizations, and doing so, has developed different sets of muscles.

He/she has experienced selling fewer larger [...]

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Is leading a company like driving a car?

I was having lunch with a great CEO and we talked about how much tolerance many CEOs have about driving without a clear understanding of their organization overall destination. It made me think about how analogous it is to driving to somewhere. Leading an organization is very much like driving your family somewhere!

CEOs know what road they are on. They know how fast they are going. They know how much fuel they have and how much they need to the next gas station.

They are aware of the traffic around, other drivers competing for space, position, speed, [...]

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Is leading a company like driving a car?

After running several companies, ranging from a few employees to several hundreds, and after reading 100s of management books, I remained unsatisfied. None of these books could have been sufficient as a single guide to help me in any of my leadership jobs.

They were all great books, and I mean that – really great books. You can see some of my favorites here <http://rgbglobal.com/html/bibliography.html>.

The reason for my dissatisfaction is because, individually, each book helped solve some of my issues as a CEO, but in an unconnected way. This unconnectedness was my big problem. I had to [...]

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My Leadership Framework

Called Executive4sights is a leadership framework, or philosophy. Contrary to traditional leadership approaches, Executive4sights is about integrating planning and execution focused on sales and discipline, it is not training, it is a tool for Boards of Directors and Senior Leadership Teams to implement coherency.

Why Executive?

As an adjective, the word "executive" implies execution, or the action of getting things done. So the Executive4sights is about getting things done.

Why 4sight?

Here "4sights" signifies two related concepts.

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