HIGHLIGHTING MILLENNIAL VALUES TO SOLVE AGRICULTURE’S RECRUITING PROBLEM By Bob McClaren While there’s no doubt food production and ranching are essential to human existence, the agricultural industry faces a recruiting challenge. As baby boomers look toward retirement and millennials take their places in the workforce, leaders in agriculture must learn how to entice these young […]Read More
WHY AN OPEN DOOR POLICY ISN’T ENOUGH By Johny Garner President Trump signed an executive order preventing citizens of seven countries from entering the United States on January 27, 2017. On Monday, January 30, acting attorney general Sally Yates sent a letter to her staff saying, “The Department of Justice will not present arguments in […]Read More
EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT IN AN ERA OF CHANGE By Liz Alexander, Ph.D. This is the era when the student trend for couch surfing morphed into the peer-to-peer platform Airbnb, a company whose valuation now exceeds that of global chains like Hyatt and represents an ongoing threat to the hotel and hospitality industry. Consumers are taking control of […]Read More
EIGHT WAYS TOP TEAMS BUILD RELATIONSHIPS By AJ Josefowitz, Ph.D. All organizations face the inherent tension between individual needs and organizational goals, and most address that tension by promoting effective interpersonal relationships between superiors and subordinates. This initiative can take many forms, from the performance appraisal process, to management training and development. But nothing has […]Read More
HOW PHYSICIANS CAN LEARN TO LEAD THE RAPIDLY CHANGING HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY By Jill Lewis A search for leadership books on Amazon offers over 86,000 results, and there are as many definitions of leadership as there are people who write about it. However, most experts would agree that leadership occurs in groups striving to achieve […]Read More
HOW TO SEPARATE INCREMENTAL GROWTH FROM INNOVATIVE PRACTICES By Art Markman, Ph.D. It has become common — almost obligatory — for business leaders to talk about the importance of innovation. The assumption is that companies can succeed in the short-term through incremental growth of the core business, but long-term success requires developing new streams of […]Read More
BUILDING ENDURING GROWTH AFTER BANKRUPTCY By Jim Taylor Gordon Bethune, the former CEO of Continental Airlines, speaks for every CEO when he summarized what leaders face after a bankruptcy. “A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet,” Mr. Bethune said, “but he cannot fix your company.” He is absolutely right. Bankruptcies don’t happen by chance. […]Read More
WHAT IT IS & WHY IT’S IMPORTANT By Tony Streeter Putting serious attention toward a brand’s image and brand message becomes especially important when entering a growth phase for mid-market companies. Revenue-wise, the mid-market category generally starts at $5 million and goes all the way to $1 billion. Mid-market companies are the ones who are […]Read More
THREE LESSONS CEOs CAN LEARN FROM THE NFL By Daron K. Roberts Leadership is a contact sport. From Wall Street to the National Football League (NFL), the CEO and head coach are co-laborers in an unforgiving battle to increase the bottom-line (profit and wins). Amid the tornado of overblown strategic plans and slick slide decks, […]Read More
THE FIVE ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER By Misty Cripps Sitting at the leadership roundtable, there are people concerned with every aspect of the business except for one. That one is the end user. Not necessarily just the people who buy the product, but the people who use the product, engage with the […]Read More
