You might be asking why your Middle Market organization should care about having entrepreneurial-minded employees. Or, an entrepreneurial culture. You aren’t a startup and you want to keep your great …
Taking Branding Beyond Your Logo
Before your Middle Market firm became an entity, a brand or the theory of a brand was formed. To many people ‘brand’ is synonymous with a logo or marketing efforts. …
Your Middle Market Firm Needs Leaders AND Managers
The terms leader and manager might be interchangeable to some, but in business, they mean quite different things. The strengths and weaknesses, skillsets, goals, and personalities of natural leaders and …
Leading from the Future
Management and leadership are future-oriented activities. To be strategic implies having a long time horizon, and engaging with current activities and choices from that broader perspective. To think about (and …
Are you Staying Personally Connected to your Team?
Being a Middle Market CEO is in many ways comparable to raising teenagers: You’re no longer providing the day-to-day life-sustaining interactions that an infant needs, but you’re not off the …
Middle Market Women on the Move!
Smart Middle Market CEOs recognize that women in their workforce have different development needs, expertise and skills than their male counterparts. And women executives in Middle Market firms don’t always …
Are You Shaping A Legacy?
The line between “business” and “life” can at times become blurry for Middle Market CEOs. You’ve spent years nurturing the business, and if your firm is a family one, you …
How Do You Do Charity?
Middle Market CEOs typically consider giving to a charity or starting some sort of philanthropic initiative. But resources are finite and the needs are endless. What to do? The best …
How do Women Rank in Leadership Today?
Unfortunately, the statistics don’t show much progress. Of 197 Heads of State, only 22 are women. They hold just 20% of parliament seats globally, and only 18 are Fortune 500 …
Reinventing Retention
Recent studies show talent recognition and retention is a growing problem for Middle Market companies. NCMM’s Indicator shows 76% of companies believe their ability to attract, train & retain talent is …