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.
Today’s presidential race has pitted candidates as insiders vs. outsiders. Similarly, corporations face the insider-outsider dilemma when deciding whether to promote leaders from within or bring in a new person. Which makes me w...
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 risk. Yet...
In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, Warren Bennis studied effective leaders and their leadership styles, and shares many invaluable points. One idea he posits is that leaders make use of characteristics many people have but ...
In today’s increasingly complex world, making decisions has become more difficult. As F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the...
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 inn...
Most of our lives, we try to learn best practices used by successful people and companies. As parents, we identify successful people that our children can use as role models. Teachers of leadership and strategy focus students on companies that...
We all use analogies. As a teacher and coach, I use them to help my audiences understand a point more quickly and powerfully. As an attorney, I seek out analogies to predict which existing laws, should serve as precedent in...
As the CEOs with whom I work focus in on our 2016 plans, we start with our time management goals – how to use time more effectively. We’re redistributing time for one-on-one and small group meetings, to focus on dealing...
I was there at the beginning. It was exciting: a new technology – computer-generated presentation graphics that could unleash people’s potential to present more effectively. It could empower smaller companies whose ideas and expertise deserved to...
At the end of the year, many supervisors probably met with their subordinates to evaluate performance. Such evaluations are most effective when they trigger a conversation, not just on the accomplishment of outcome and process goa...