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Join internationally known business performance expert and author Pamela S. (“Pam”) Harper, Founding Partner and CEO of Business Advancement Inc., and her business partner/husband D. Scott (“Scott”) Harper, an internationally known innovation expert, for thought-provoking conversations with visionary leaders who are transforming the face of business. Each week, a new show focuses on sparking fresh insights, inspiration, and immediately useful ideas to take you and your organization to new he ...
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CEOs and other top leaders of successful mid-market and larger companies often ask us variations of this question: How do we keep our company entrepreneurial as we continue to grow? Our response is: “Do your employees and other stakeholders have a shared understanding of what ‘being entrepreneurial’ means?” It’s easy to assume we all meanRead More …
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What does it mean to be a transformational leader as the world keeps changing? This is not just a philosophical question. It has very real top-line and bottom-line implications regarding your decisions, actions and outcomes. This week we discuss the surprising truth about transformational leadership with Dr. Gloria Burgess. She’s the CEO of Jazz In…
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Are you taking full advantage of all your opportunities for life-long learning? One of the most challenging aspects of being a successful visionary CEO is tapping into unique learning opportunities. Media, books, podcasts, conferences, and continuing executive education are just the starting points. This week we revisit our Fan-Favorite ‘Quick Take…
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What does it take to stand out from the competition in a crowded marketplace? Our guest, Barry LaBov, provides unique answers. He is the multi-award-winning President and CEO of LaBov Marketing Communications and Training. His book, “The Power of Differentiation,” will be published on June 25, 2024. In this week’s podcast, we revisit our 2023Read M…
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Have you ever considered what growing a company has in common with gardening? In this Quick Take episode, We discuss the parallels between them, especially when you’re expanding into a new geography. For instance, Scott takes a strategic approach to gardening. This includes uncovering his assumptions and considering the growing conditions in differ…
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Are you looking for additional ways to engage with employees, customers, partners, investors and other critical stakeholders? If so, consider that impactful, transformative communication comes from more than how you shape your message. Our guest, Oscar Trimboli shares that “deep listening” can be what others have called a “leadership superpower.” O…
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Many of us start the New Year with good intentions and a sense of purpose. But as the year goes on, life happens, and it can be challenging to stay in sync with the purpose you originally envisioned. That’s why making the time for what we call “checkpoints” can be so valuable. It’s a goodRead More The post Staying In Synch With Your Life’s Purpose …
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One of our friends recently sent us a thought-provoking article titled “Influencer or Influential: Which Would You Rather Be?” This question resonated with us because we’re seeing a growing number of CEOs who are also taking on the role of “Influencer-in- Chief.” While sharing thoughts and ideas about various issues through social media canRead Mor…
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Are you in the midst of leading a business transformation? If so, you’re not alone. Over the years, CEOs and C-Suite executives we work with have shared that a critical part of their strategy is leading business transformation in a way that keeps creating new value in pace with the constantly changing needs of customers,Read More The post Three Key…
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What is the key to staying focused and productive when you’re faced with competing priorities? If you’re like the visionary CEOs and top leaders we work with, you may be torn between taking advantage of emerging opportunities while balancing the demands of employees, customers, partners, and other stakeholders. Taking a strategic approach to these …
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Do you feel like you’re leading at warp speed? If so, you’re not alone. It’s likely that in the fast changing business environment you’re dealing with many high-stakes decisions all at once. What’s the key to balancing the often competing needs of employees, customers, partners, and other stakeholders when the pressure is on? As counter-intuitiveRe…
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If you’re like many of the top leaders we work with, you have a can-do attitude that enables you to take on tough issues and do what it takes to exceed expectations. You assume that you’re resilient. But in the face of unrelenting demands, anyone can burn out and not even realize it. This week,Read More The post What is Your Resilience Plan? – with…
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How do you regard the turbulence and complexity in today’s business environment? While it can be extremely challenging, we’ve found that successful visionary business leaders recognize and embrace complex situations because they can also offer many opportunities. To find out more, listen to this Fan Favorite conversation with Amy Lee Segami, Presid…
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If you lead a family business, you probably deal with the challenge of building a lasting legacy for the business every day. Establishing good governance and nurturing leadership talent from inside and outside the family are important parts of a strong foundation. However, family dynamics also have a very powerful impact on how a familyRead More Th…
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How do you celebrate your company’s major milestones? Maybe you have a party; some companies ring bells. It’s important to celebrate in meaningful ways that fit with your company’s culture. Beyond the celebration, milestones can serve as an opportunity to reflect on your vision and what you’ve learned so far. This can help you makeRead More The pos…
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As Chat GPT and other forms of generative AI emerge as potentially powerful resources for accelerating momentum for game-changing growth, we’re finding that many top leaders are discussing questions of the ethics of generative AI. What is top leadership’s role in mindfully creating a culture of ethics and reasonable governance around these complex …
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As a visionary top leader, you’re already thinking big and seeking out new adventures to help you challenge your boundaries of what you think is possible. Maybe you’ve climbed Kilimanjaro or sailed to the Antarctic. However, adventures such as these can be few and far between. Fortunately, there is another route to redefining what’s possibleRead Mo…
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Have you ever wondered why some people seem to be luckier than others? What if there were ways to go beyond random chance to make luck more predictable? This week, we feature our Fan Favorite conversation with Monica Laurence, a TEDx speaker, global entrepreneur, business strategist, and mentor. We discuss what she’s learned about usingRead More Th…
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If you’re like many of the visionary CEOs we speak with, you know that leading to create game-changing value often requires challenging established patterns of feeling, thinking, and acting. There are many ways to do this; what’s important is finding the unique ways that are right for you and your company’s culture. This week, listenRead More The p…
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One of the themes that keeps coming up in our conversations with top leadership is finding the appropriate balance of confidence that can inspire employees, partners, and others to reach past the status quo and create new value for game-changing innovation and growth. The CEO has a critical role in fostering confident business innovation. Over-conf…
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We’re all faced with a constant stream of unexpected changes in the business environment. The challenge for visionary CEOs, C-Suite executives, and Boards is separating the signals of important changes from the noise. Even better, how about spotting early signals of change before they grow to have a major impact? Sometimes, it helps to takeRead Mor…
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Are you like many of the visionary top leaders we speak with who have made business innovation a top priority in the constantly changing world? If so, you know how important it is to keep finding new ways to think more expansively, creatively, and collaboratively as a C-Suite team. In this week’s episode, we speakRead More The post How C-Suite Team…
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In the year ahead, are you reimagining what’s possible to create game-changing growth for your company? If so, you may be like many top leaders we speak with who bring together people with a wide variety of perspectives. Their insights can be especially valuable when you’re moving your company into complex, uncharted territory. But leadingRead More…
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Are you like many of the top leaders who have shared how important it is to go beyond transactional interactions and create deeper connections with people? These are the conversations that can strengthen the mutual trust, collaboration, commitment it takes to bring big dreams to life. Sometimes these connections happen naturally over a meal. OtherR…
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Is it possible to use jargon and buzzwords as an ally of connection instead of as its enemy? Every industry, business, and profession has its own language representing complex ideas. While it can be confusing and alienating to people who don’t understand it, there are ways to use these terms and phrases to promote understandingRead More The post Ma…
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Are you looking for a starting point to refresh, renew, and take yourselves and your company to even higher levels of growth in the New Year? We’ve found that leading with purpose can make all the difference in bringing big dreams to life. In this week’s episode, our guest Kuda Biza, shares his approach toRead More The post New Year, New You: Seizi…
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As we start the New Year, maybe this scenario seems familiar: you want employees to return to the office, but they want a different arrangement. If so, maybe it’s time to reimagine the culture of your hybrid organization. In this “Quick Take”episode, we discuss why hybrid organizations may stay with us for the foreseeable future.Read More The post …
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As we enter 2024, what does it mean to lead a happy company? You may already be focused on the happiness of employees and customers, but what about the happiness of your partners, suppliers, and other stakeholders? Our guest says “it’s time to change the narrative on leading a happy company.” In this “FanRead More The post Transforming from CEO to …
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Are you wondering whether 2024 is the year for your company to launch a business podcast? Or perhaps you’re wondering about the key to increasing ROI from your existing business podcast. Visionary CEOs and C-suite executives often ask us these questions. That’s why we’re sharing the three top lessons we’ve learned since we launched ourRead More The…
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What can it take for your company to be the disruptor and not the disrupted? In this episode we speak with Silicon Valley legend Feyzi Fatehi, CEO of Corent Technology, Inc. about his award-winning approach to human-centric leadership. Feyzi is a technology visionary, inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur. He received the 2019 CODiE Lifetime Achiev…
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What’s the key to increasing collaboration and business innovation? How about drawing on the pioneering methods of improv from The Second City? In this Quick Take episode, we discuss why leading for collaboration and business innovation will only become more important in the year ahead. We discuss the challenge of leading for collaboration when the…
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Do you wish there was a way to see what’s ahead for your company in the New Year? Although there’s no crystal ball, there is a real way to look into the future, starting today. Listen to our Fan Favorite conversation with Tara Rethore, CEO of Strategy for Real and co-author of the book, ChartingRead More The post How Can You Look Into the Future Wi…
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During the holidays, so many of us feel the pressure to create more work-life balance. What’s the key to juggling often-competing priorities, especially when the issues are both in-person and virtual? In this “Thanksgiving Quick Take” episode, we share that creating work-life balance starts with taking a deep breath and expressing gratitude. We’re …
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In the New Year, how will your C-suite grow as a high performance team? It can start with embracing the surprising truth about many C-Suite Teams. This week, we speak with Pam Fox Rollin, about what it takes to grow as a high-performance C-Suite Team in a company of any size in any industry. SheRead More The post The Surprising Truth about C-Suite …
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What makes the difference between leadership fads and transformational leadership that lasts and creates long-term growth? In this “Quick Take” episode, we share our insights on this issue, and how it can challenge even the savviest leadership teams. Scott and I discuss how bold strategies for transformational growth can inadvertently become fads i…
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Are you wondering how you can preserve your company culture when so much is changing in the world? It’s likely you may be facing unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Perhaps you’re leading to take advantage of emerging markets. Maybe you’ve developed a game-changing business model. Maybe AI or other technologies are changing how your company…
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Are you among the increasing number of CEOs who believe it’s important for employees to spend more time at the office to increase productivity and profitability? What if employees are reluctant to do this? Instead of mandates, what else you can do to help people want to return to the office? This week, we speakRead More The post What Can You Do to …
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Have you ever wondered whether this is the time for you and your company to launch a business podcast? Or perhaps you’re wondering about the key to increasing ROI from your existing business podcast. Visionary CEOs and C-suite executives often ask us these questions. That’s why we’re sharing the three top lessons we’ve learned sinceRead More The po…
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In this often-polarized world, how can we change the narrative on gender equity to create meaningful conversations between men and women that can drive positive change in the world? This week, our conversation with speaker and author Kori Reed centers on the importance of changing the narrative on gender equity. As the the author ofRead More The po…
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Are you looking for more powerful ways to differentiate your company and stand out from the crowd? How about leading your company like a rock band? This week we revisit our Fan-Favorite conversation with Barry LaBov, President and CEO of LaBov Marketing Communications and Training. He is a former rock musician as well as aRead More The post What Di…
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What is the key to competing in what has become known as the “New Era of Work?” We need to stay attuned not just to the present, but to the future of work as well. Our guest this week is Sophie Wade. She’s a work futurist, international keynote speaker, author, instructor, and Workforce Innovation SpecialistRead More The post The Key to Competing i…
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We’ve been talking with CEOs of successful mid-market and larger companies who ask us variations on this question: How do we keep our company entrepreneurial? Our response is:”what do you mean by being entrepreneurial?” It’s easy to assume we all mean the same thing when we’re communicating, and we don’t. “Entrepreneurial” is one of thoseRead More …
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What does it mean to lead a happy company in the face of uncertainty? And for that matter, whose happiness should we be most concerned with? It’s time to change the narrative on the value of leading a happy company. In this episode. we revisit our fan-favorite conversation with Edwin Edebiri, MBA, about the importanceRead More The post From CEO to …
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Are you among the many CEOs and C-Suite executives who are finding it challenging to identify and develop emerging leaders in the changing business landscape? While surveys point to a number of reasons for this issue, it can leave everyone scrambling and your company vulnerable when a leadership need suddenly arises. How about considering aRead Mor…
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One of the most challenging aspects of being a visionary CEO of a successful company is leading high-stakes conversations with your C-Suite and Board about challenging issues. Maybe you’re making a game-changing decision about innovation to enter a new market. Maybe you’re making decisions about reorganizing for transformation. Or perhaps it’s some…
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Did you know that even if you’re shaping a culture based upon respect, others may misinterpret well intended encounters in the rapidly changing business environment? Finding new ways of helping others feel respected can be a game-changer. This week, we’re discussing new ways to look at perceptions of respect with returning guest, Gena Cox, PhD.Read…
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What learning goals have you and your organization recently accomplished this year? Not only is it important to celebrate them, it’s important to share the news with others in your community. This way everyone is updated on how you’re staying current and responsive to the changing world. That’s why in this “Quick Take” conversation weRead More The …
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Many of us have long accepted that “change is a constant.” But do you ever feel as if the past few years have taken the roller coaster of change into a whole new dimension of twists and turns? We’re not just leading to steer our organizations through the changing environment. We also need to bringRead More The post The Key to Leading and Managing i…
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One of the most challenging aspects of being the visionary CEO of a successful, growth-oriented company is exemplifying the habit of lifelong learning. This can help you keep igniting game-changing growth in the constantly changing world. Media, books, podcasts, conferences, and continuing executive education are all helpful. However, they are stil…
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If you lead a family business, you probably deal with the challenge of building a lasting family business legacy every day. Establishing good governance and nurturing leadership talent from inside and outside the family are important parts of a strong foundation. However, family dynamics also have a very powerful impact on how a family company’sRea…
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