Bob has written series of CEO and career lessons learned that he will share on this website by a rotating sequence. You can access the four articles currently posted, below. Please feel free to comment on them in the ‘Contact' section of the website.
The Slippery Slope of Integrity
When you see lists of the most important personal characteristics in a CEO (or senior executive), the most common criteria is impeccable integrity. Integrity is more important than past performance and/or future vision, and it
Large Jobs Can Kill You
In the consulting services industry, companies are made up of a combination of a network of local offices doing recurring activity with repeat customers, with an occasional overlapping potential to perform larger and ‘one-off’
Leadership Diseases and Their Cure
Two executive leadership management styles I am occasionally requested to consult on are by-products of the base motivation of the individual leader. The problematic symptoms are very different, and one needs to address the ‘disease.’
Turning Fear into Success
About six months after I stepped down from being CEO of a global company for nearly a decade, someone asked me how I was doing. I said the first thing that popped into my mind:
Saving Private Ryan Companies
Last month I had a very lucrative, but sad day. I spent nearly four decades in the same private employee-held service sector company, the final eleven years as its CEO. Over my career, I
Finding a Support Base for Change
How many times is a new leader asked to change the status quo of the unit they inherit? If not, how many new leaders think they have to change the status quo just to symbolize
Leadership Diseases and Their Cure
Two executive leadership management styles I am occasionally requested to