Relating to the CEO's Roles
- Creating the Inspiration
- Creating a meaningful vision
- Identifying uniqueness
- Setting an appropriately lofty vision
- Deciding when the vision needs refining
- Charting the Course
- Translating vision into strategy
- Instilling strategic thought rather than deploying a strategic planning process
- Creating true competitive advantage
- Achieving profitable growth
- Shaping the Team
- Creating the right environment – openness, candor and respect
- Instilling quality decision-making
- Aligning motivations
- Coaching
- Assessing performance
- Minimizing the negative impact when making key replacements
- Translating into Action
- Elements of a good operating plan
- Linking the operating plan to the strategy
- Emphasizing the key change elements
- Defining actions and expected results
- Resource allocation vs. budgeting
- Following Through
- Monitoring progress
- Establishing ownership & accountability
- Creating early warning systems
- Analyzing performance failures
- Ensuring timely corrective actions
- Communicating
- Communicating good and bad news
- Defining communication modes and frequency
- Choosing your audience
- Ensuring feedback
- Creating transparency
- Engaging the Board
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Related Subject Matter Areas
- Acquisitions
- Role in strategic thought
- Candidate targeting and evaluation
- Conducting due diligence
- Integrating people and processes
- Managing before and after
- Divestitures
- Selling operations
- Shutting down operations
- Fund raising – private, public, debt
- Timing & approach
- Documentation requirements
- Funding targets
- Introductions
- Banks, investment bankers, consultants
- VCs, private equity, other
- Major Transactions
- Going public – IPO, merging with a public company
- Going private
- Selling the company
- Downsizing
- Timing
- Managing the process
- How far to go
- International operations management
- Building the team
- Doing business
- Structuring operations
- Using offshore resources effectively
- Role of partnerships
- Protecting intellectual property
- Obtaining patents – domestic and international
- Using legal counsel cost-effectively
- Internal vs. external resources
- Effective partnerships and
other ventures
- Effective use of external resources
- Consultants
- Industry specialists
- Industry services
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