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How CEOs are Like a School Bully

It’s recess, and the schoolyard is alive with the shouts and laughter of children. In the midst of the playful chaos stands a figure who commands the playground—whether by fear or respect—a school bully. This character, often misunderstood, wields influence with a mix of bravado, charm, and a strategic use of power.

Fast forward a few decades, and you might find that the dynamics of the playground have subtly shifted into the boardroom, where the bully’s role is now played by the CEO.

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The parallels between the two are striking, if not unsettling. Both the school bully and the CEO navigate environments where power dynamics, influence, and control are at the forefront.…

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From Team Leader To CEO: Education, Motivation, and Tips

As you progress through your career and ascend the organizational hierarchy, you learn a lot about leadership skills and leading teams. At some point, you become a functional leader with the responsibility to lead and take care of a team of co-workers. That implies leading, inspiring, and protecting that team. Things change when you decide to move on to become a CEO.

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When transitioning to a CEO role, your remit becomes too broad to remain focused on the needs and tasks of any single unit within the larger organization. The wider scope and scale of management responsibilities require a different set of leadership and management skills.…

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How To Become a CEO

Many young professionals aspire to become a chief executive officer of a large company. In addition to being a highly esteemed position, the role of a CEO often comes along with a sizeable salary. Not surprisingly, this post also involves a great deal of responsibility. Thus, the road to becoming a CEO is usually not an easy one.

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Consider what it takes to be named CEO and whether this job may be right for you.

What Does a CEO Do?

Because every business functions a bit differently, the duties of a CEO vary from company to company. For instance, CEO Patrick James Trico may have different responsibilities than a CEO for a small startup company.…

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CEO Spotlight: Chad Price of Mako Medical

Chad Price is a consultant and successful business owner that has worked hard to develop his passion for helping people into lucrative ventures. The serial entrepreneur started Mako Medical back in 2014 with no understanding of the medical industry but a desire to fill a need. Working through a number of challenges, he has developed Mako Medical into one of the top US health care companies.

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In 2019, Chad Price started Bride Genie to give vendors a free way to connect with the brides they want to target for future gigs. In 2015, he invested in Trill A.I., becoming a board member for the company that disrupted the investment community with machine learning predictions for analysts.…

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Improve Your Life as a CEO With These Tools

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You made it to the top! You’re CEO, king of the castle and master of your domain. Somehow, this means even more work. Improve your life as a CEO with the tools below to stay organized and successful.

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As CEO, your time is valuable, and you need to be careful how you spend it. You don’t have the luxury of wasting time on inconsequential tasks, and if you find yourself at the end of the day wondering where all your time went, RescueTime is the solution to your problems.

RescueTime is an application you install on your Windows or Mac desktop, and it monitors everything you do on your computer.…

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1 in 4 CEOs are accountants. Here’s why

A CEO is the most important person in a company. Jumping from meeting to meeting, calling shots, taking risks, making and sometimes breaking businesses. We see these larger-than-life figures giving talks, announcing products and lining the pages of the Forbes Rich List. But where do they come from?

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A recent survey has shown that nearly one quarter of FTSE 100 CEOs come from a background in accounting. For some this may come as a surprise. How could so many humble bookkeepers end up running high end firms?

There are, however, many reasons why accountants are well-suited to the role of CEO.…

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How To Be Good At Being Your Own Boss

Trying to be your own boss has its inarguable upsides. You can decide on the dynamics of your workplace, choose your own hours, treat staff well and try to maximise profits for yourself. But while that all sounds like a cinch, it takes more skill than you might imagine.

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Running a business is a marathon

Most small business owners take years, even decades, to hone their skills, using famous entrepreneurs as templates or attending in-depth courses on the subjects of business and finance.

Even those who are clued up might struggle in the bear pit of free market capitalism. It only takes one slip-up in a dodgy financial climate to turn your once-thriving business into a stagnant shell of its former self.…

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4 Ways CEOs Can Effectively Build Their Personal Brands

As a CEO, you have a lot on your plate. All of the responsibilities in front of you make thinking about anything other than the company seem downright impossible. Furthermore, thinking about yourself and your own career can seem like a ludicrous proposition. But that’s exactly what forward thinking CEOs do – they think about themselves from time to time.

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4 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand

Regardless of whether you anticipate staying in your current role until retirement, or feel weary about your future with the company, it’s imperative that you build your own personal brand. Not only does brand building open up future job opportunities, but it also exposes you to things like paid speaking engagements, book deals, and industry recognition.…

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How Can a CEO Get (and Stay) in Touch with Employees?

Often CEOs lose touch, or are perceived to have lost touch with their people. What’s worse, they can appear to have lost touch with the reality of working in the business. Clearly, this can be incredibly damaging.

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If, as CEO, you don’t really understand the concerns, ideas, motivations or realities of your employees, you’re likely to make some very poor decisions, which will impact the business. If you are simply perceived to be out of touch, you soon start to lose the respect of your people. So, what can a CEO do to avoid either situation?

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A great way to set off on the right foot is to insist on meeting all new joiners.…

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Great CEOs are Down on The Basics

There are hundreds of advice columns for CEOs, so let’s start this one with an acknowledgment of how CEOs got where they are in the first place.

Chief executives are bright, fact-based big-picture thinkers who have an innate ability to tune in to what other people are thinking, feeling and doing and to turn that instinct (and knowledge) to their company’s advantage. Those are the basic attributes.

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CEOs don’t overlook the small details, but they don’t get hung up on them, either. They are big-picture thinkers, which allows them to focus on long-term company goals.

In so many words, a company can hire all the detail-oriented people they need.…

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