Jerry Cahn, Ph.D. J.D. chairs Vistage CEO and Trusted Advisor groups in New York, is a Vistage Workshop Speaker on a number of topics, including a new one for Vistage groups and corporate clients called “Job #1: Build a Culture that Unleashes Creativity & Sustains Innovation”, and leads the Presentation Excellence Group. For more information, contact him at jerry.cahn@vistage.com, jerrycahn@presentationexcellencegroup.com or 800-493-1334.
Insider vs. outsider: Who makes a better leader? August 4, 2016 by Jerry Cahn 0 comments 4065 viewson Leadership Today’s presidential race has pitted candidates as insiders vs. outsiders. Similarly, corporations face the insider-outsider dilemma when deci...
The power of fearlessness in leadership July 28, 2016 by Jerry Cahn 0 comments 2670 viewson Leadership In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, Warren Bennis shares something he calls the “Wallenda factor,” named after the great tightrope aerialist Karl Wallenda. Every time Wallenda took to the tightrope, Bennis remarks, his life was at...
In leadership, self-regard has a ripple effect July 26, 2016 by Jerry Cahn 0 comments 5801 viewson Leadership In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, Warren Bennis studied effective leaders and their leadership styles, and shares many invaluable points...
Training leaders for decision-making dilemmas June 9, 2016 by Jerry Cahn 0 comments 1767 viewson Leadership In today’s increasingly complex world, making decisions has become more difficult. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “the test of a first-ra...
Creativity versus intelligence May 31, 2016 by Jerry Cahn 1 comment 2101 viewson Innovation Returning from a workshop I recently led on how to increase employees' creativity and structure ways to channel ideas into innovative products and processes, I began thinking about a comment I made – ‘intelligence is not a predictor of...