
What if Everyone in Your Company Thought Like A CEO?
September 24, 2021
After thirty years of working with over 1000’s of CEO’s in eight different countries with revenue from $35 million to $800 million people always ask, “Is the way a CEO thinks really different than how others think?” My answer is “the good ones always think different than anyone else.”
CEO’S and managers at all levels need a new and complete mastery of both the foundations of solid management thinking and the practical application of the essential business disciplines.
FOUNDATION 1: BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY
Learning to think like a CEO will improve the performance of managers at all levels. Develop a business philosophy consisting of fundamental business principles, your own personal management philosophy and your insights into a particular business opportunity.
FOUNDATION 2: STRATEGY
The objective of business strategy is to establish a competitive edge in the marketplace that will allow a company to prosper by offering a long-term better value to its customers. The strategic process involves matching the organization’s internal resources to the external market.
DISCIPLINE 1: BUSINESS OPERATIONS PLANNING
Validate strategies, allocate resources, and prepare for implementation. Project the actions required, resources needed, and results expected to carry out your strategy.
DISCIPLINE 2: PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
The strength of a business resides in the minds of its people; manage accordingly. Human concerns are always an issue. Look closely at your people. Organize the work to make their weaknesses irrelevant to their performance. Face up to mediocrity.
DISCIPLINE 3: CAREER MANAGEMENT
No business can continue to grow and prosper without nurturing its young managers. Help new managers to know themselves, to communicate effectively, and to make ethical decisions.
DISCIPLINE 4: SALES
Understand the difference in sales responsibilities for CEOs, sales managers, and sales people.
DISCIPLINE 5: NUMBERS
The primary task of accounting is to help operating managers make better decisions. Equally important is its role in developing sound operating controls.
DISCIPLINE 6: BANKING
Bankers are often bad partners. Bankers offer one-sided deals that require you to accept 100 percent of the risk and the bank to accept none.
DISCIPLINE 7: CASH MANAGEMENT
Cash is king. No cash, no company. End of story!
DISCIIPLINE 8: TOUGH TIMES AND TURNAROUNDS
Survival displaces all other rules of management during tough times. Survivability depends on cash, credit, and product viability.
DISCIPLINE 9: ACQUISITIONS
Don’t buy it if you can’t improve it. Compare the cost and viability of expansion by acquisition to that of internal development.
DISCIPLINE 10: LEADERSHIP
Leadership is a matter of combining trained intellect, insightful intuition, and superior character, with character being the dominant factor. The secrets to leadership are passion, motivation, ethics, courage, communication, judgment, and insight.
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