“High expectations are the key to everything.”
Sam Walton
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CXO Thoughts is a
website aimed at private company C-level executives (e.g. CEO, COO,
CFO, CMO, CIO) engaged in all of the aspects of an organization’s
value chain.
 CXO Thoughts was created to
serve as a meeting place and marketplace for an exchange of ideas
involving the myriad of issues challenging busy executives in private
companies.
It seeks to accomplish this in a relaxed, but technically
savvy way, with a focus on credible, respectful dialogue, and a
connection to the broader Internet community.
The critical elements are
to be helpful, respectful, insightful, and to share experiences
liberally. The issues addressed will include: financing, marketing and
sales, IT solutions, HR matters, legal issues, and others.
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Our Blog
The CXO Blog is your resource for the latest articles, insights and ideas pertaining to C-Level Executives.
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The High Cost of Distractions |
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Topic: Worker Distractions
Reference: Jackson, Maggie. “May We Have Your Attention, Please?”BusinessWeek, June 23, 2008. pp.55-56.
The number of distractions at work seems to be proliferating at an accelerating rate. Even if you have an office, there are countless interruptions from staff, the phone, cell phone, blackberry, faxes, office drop ins, instant messages, and the like. It makes it difficult to concentrate, focus on the tasks at hand, and to be effective at getting the work done in the normal workday. Often it takes extra hours just to maintain the status quo. To be effective now it takes a gameplan, a tasklist, and control over your environment. I chronicle many of these things in my book “Are You Ineffective?” (www.areyouineffective.com).
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Leadership Styles and Employee Engagement |
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Thursday, June 27, 2008
Topic: Leadership Style
Reference: Brenner, Mark. “Success or Failure? It Comes Down to Leadership Style.” American Management Association: MWorld, Summer 2008. pp. 3-5.
Based on some recent events in my own practice, work performed doing strategic planning, and information gained through an environmental scan, I recently asked myself what difference leadership style really makes to an organization. Organizations have been successfully led by all kinds of personality styles from the swashbuckling to the pious; from the ultra-conservative to the totally maverick. I can understand that nobody wants to work for a tyrant; an officious micromanager; or anyone whose one management style is based on fear and loathing.
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