Conversely, and unfortunately, most small business CEOs spend too much time managing and too little on executive thinking.
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This will push you toward more executive thinking and behavior and put you on a natural path toward performing all the tasks of a CEO, including charting the long-term course for your small business.
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More types of programs are being offered, including "domestic and international programs ranging from traditional academics to service learning to tourism, " says Mr. Pendoley, who is also chief executive of Thinking Beyond Borders, a Fairfield, Conn.
No executive would admit thinking this but too often we see examples of how they act up on it.
The only source of kryptonite for shareholder activism is a truly dynamic, free thinking executive out of the mold of Henry Ford.
The programs represent a new way of thinking about executive training.
The thinking went that executive compensation in the period leading up to the crisis encouraged excessive risk-taking, with well-paid employees getting all the reward and the federal government saddled with the costs of the aftermath when things went horribly wrong.
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Tough talk, and wishful thinking on the part of Chief Executive Jim Hackett.
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For example, if an executive is pushing for the adoption of lean thinking, she needs to states its features and benefits.
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Argyris described a method for improving the thinking and decision-making of executive groups that involved engaging them both collectively and individually as a coach-facilitator, giving them feedback, challenging their thinking and using focused exercises to help them reflect on how they operate.
"It's important to understand that suicide is complex, " says Catherine Johnstone, chief executive of the Samaritans, a UK group that counsels people thinking of suicide.
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"Actually the pundits did not understand what Israeli society was thinking and feeling, " said Marcus Sheff, executive director of the Israel Project, an advocacy group.
Or a seasoned executive babbles at the board meeting when she is known for her clear thinking.
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Much of recent sustainability thinking has been about bringing the larger social web back into executive decision making.
Microsoft Chief Executive SteveBallmerSteve Ballmer may be proud to be a PC, but investors are thinking differently.
Hospice chief executive Beverley Brooks said privacy and independence had been at the heart of their thinking.
Pop Warner's executive director, Jon Butler, is taking safety more seriously these days, thinking of new rules and creative ways to better train volunteer coaches.
The thinking is that this is a good company despite the travails of former chief executive Dennis Kozlowski, now on trial for looting the corporate till.
"I'm always thinking about the next acquisition, " says the 48-year-old chief executive.
In 1994, Rheingold became the founding executive editor of HotWired magazine, an edgy publication that explored the outer reaches of technology and thinking.
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Marina Gorbis is executive director of the Institute for the Future, a research and consulting organization dedicated to systematically thinking about the future in order to help people make better decisions today.
"The whole thing has not only been a slap in the face of Arkansas women but a serious bruising for the state of Arkansas and any efforts it has tried to make to present itself as a progressive, forward-thinking state where people might want to live and work, " ACLU of Arkansas Executive Director Rita Sklar told the Arkansas Times.
Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, says tech companies, with the exception of forward-thinking Apple, largely ignored her color recommendations up through the '90s.
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Even the most talented in-house executive may be buried too deep in the weeds to ask the tough questions and offer forward-looking thinking to avoid a product becoming obsolete before it even makes it to the market.
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