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Why mentoring CEOs matters

Vistage Staff — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:13:00 +0000

No school or training program can fully prepare a CEO for the day-to-day challenges at altitude. No matter how learned or experienced, a chief executive will have times when they need someone to listen as they work through a problem...

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Ben Franklin’s Junto Club: Inside America’s first mastermind group

Vistage Staff — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:52:00 +0000

Modern-day mastermind groups offer a combination of education, support, and accountability for CEOs, business owners and executives seeking to grow their businesses and enhance their personal lives. For leaders with lofty goals, these organizations tap a select group of peers...

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24 mentorship quotes you’ll find motivational

Vistage Staff — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:36:00 +0000

Mentorship plays a crucial role in people’s lives. Not only is the work important, but it is also rewarding. Many mentors cite helping others as the most meaningful contribution they make in their careers. Being a support anchor for another...

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Why executive coaches don’t need to have all the answers

Vistage Staff — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 18:30:00 +0000

Perhaps you’ve benefited from executive coaching and have thought about becoming one yourself. It’s a rewarding role, after all. Serving as an anchor in others’ lives multiplies your positive impact in the world, as the people you coach use their...

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4 reasons leaders are calling it quits on retirement … and why that’s a good thing

Sam Reese — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000

According to an analysis of Labor Department data, an estimated 1.5 million retirees have re-entered the U.S. labor market over the past year. As someone who left the corporate world for retirement and then changed my mind, I have a...

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Alan Mulally: The value of aligning “your life’s work”

Vistage Staff — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:50:00 +0000

Alan Mulally, the CEO best known for turning around Ford and Boeing, believes making an impact on others comes from choosing your “life’s work” and sharing it with others. And after participating in several peer advisory group sessions, he’s seen...

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9 reasons why servant leaders make the best executive coaches

Vistage Staff — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:55:00 +0000

In the half-century since Robert K. Greenleaf wrote “The Servant as Leader,” servant leadership has steadily replaced more traditional, authoritarian styles across the business world. Servant leaders who, as Cindy Mascheroni explains, “put purpose over profit” have proven highly effective...

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Rethinking the “Second Mountain”

Vistage Staff — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 23:20:00 +0000

Do you view your future as divided into two stages, your career and, later, a retirement period doing what you’re really meant to do? Many people think in these terms. New York Times columnist David Brooks was among them, as...

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The 16 best executive coaching books (and a dozen great reads for clients)

Vistage Staff — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:51:00 +0000

Executive coaching can be a rewarding and fulfilling career, but it requires deep introspection and commitment and an array of interpersonal and leadership skills. Becoming an executive coach and growing in the role demands lifelong learning — and that means...

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7 hard truths about leaving the C-suite

Vistage Staff — Mon, 23 May 2022 18:15:00 +0000

Serving as a senior executive is a job, often a high-stress one at that. Leaving the C-suite should, therefore, come as a relief, shouldn’t it? Speak with leaders who made the transition out, however, and you’ll hear something very different....

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