It doesn’t matter who you are, or how long you have been a Founder & CEO, there is a direct connection between your leadership development and your company’s profit development. I was reminded of this when I interviewed Kip Tindell (Co-founder and now former CEO of The Container Store) last…
“Our investors said I would be a better CEO than my Co-founder.” “We flipped a coin and I became the CEO.” “I was the only one left to be the CEO.” “No one else wanted to be CEO.” These are some of the things I have heard from some Founding…
For me, the short answer is yes. But, don’t take my word. A growing amount of research supports this. Here are some of the more relevant pieces. 1 – Founder-CEOs, Investment Decisions, and Stock Market Performance (Rüdiger Fahlenbrach) – published on August 8, 2009 “Eleven percent of the largest public U.S….
They are everywhere. Experts, Gurus, “Mentors,” and Ninjas, oh my! They yell at you from autoplay Facebook videos. They fill your inbox with promises of riches. They twitter bomb you with endless inspirational quotes. They fill your physical mailbox with post cards selling their “must attend” LIVE events. And, you…