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06
Nov
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Quitter, Camper, Climber: Who’s on Your Team?

By Richard Lavin, Founder, LEVERAGEDWISDOM richard.lavin@leveragedwisdom.com Years ago I met Doug Tomkins, an incredibly successful young man who by his early 30 years had built a $100 million women’s clothing line distributing nationally to all the top department stores and boutiques. I was about his age when we met; but, my accomplishments were much more […]
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02
Nov
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CEO Chief Empathy Officer

The burden of leadership will grow heavy over the coming days, weeks and months. In “normal” times your success has enabled you to care for many …your immediate and extended families, your employees, your vendors and your customers. As well as, institutions and charities that are important to your sense of community and shared fate. […]
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14
Oct
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Enough With The Shovel: A LEVERAGEDWISDOM Insight

We all know the rule of holes…if you’re in one, stop digging!  A hole in business is an unpleasant place where: 1)         There is no return on the investment of time or money. 2)         A business relationship continues to be disappointing. 3)         The potential for an idea continues to be unrealized. 4)         A non-performing business […]
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15
Jul
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Purple? No. Meet For Drinks? Yes!

Twelve CEOs were staring at six bottles of nail polish I had placed on the conference room table. (Two women and ten men were participating in their monthly LEVERAGEDWISDOM peer learning meeting. I asked the women to hold their answers.) Raising one small clear glass bottle filled with nail polish, I asked, “What color is […]
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15
Feb
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Process Choke Point: Indecision is a Decision.

Being CEO/Owner means you have to make decisions in a timely and effective manner. Yes or No…Heads or Tails…Left or Right. At LEVERAGEDWISDOM, we’re all for a well-researched thoughtful measured decision making process that’s inclusive of others.  After all we are a CEO/Owner peer learning organization; but, at the end of the day…somebody has to […]
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11
Jan
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Choke Points #1: Person, Position or Process

At LEVERAGEDWISDOM we work on our Member CEO’s choke points often leading to unusual action steps. In military strategy, choke points are geographical features; such as bridge, valley, or strait which an army or navy is forced to pass through. The choke point increases vulnerability, decreases combat power and compromises the ability of a unit […]
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03
Dec
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What’s the expiration date on your business?

“We tackle the tough questions that keep owners of privately held businesses up at night.” Richard Lavin The stark reality is that there is life cycle to everything.  At some point even the greatest waterway has to be widened (the Panama Canal).  A company built on rock-solid chemistry is blindsided by digital process (Kodak).  A […]
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Choose One At Your Peril: The Disciplines of Market Leaders

The Discipline of Market Leaders became a much revered business book in the mid-90s. At LEVERAGEDWISDOM the book generated vigorous discussion and ultimately disagreement with the authors. Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema claimed that market leadership derived from choosing one of three disciplines; operational excellence, product leadership or customer intimacy. To attempt to master all […]
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09
Jun
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Wisdom of Crowds

“No one of us is as smart as all of us” or The Wisdom of Crowds. A LEVERAGEDWISDOM Member recently summed up his meeting day experience by declaring, that it seemed “No one of us is as smart as all of us.” He had presented to the assembled CEOs a troubling issue about a long […]
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Beware of Black Swans and Dead Elephants

In “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb contends that our belief in the predictability of events, based on what’s happened in the past, is so ingrained that we either overlook or can’t conceive of the fact that genuinely important events can’t always be predicted. If, for example, as […]
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Richard Lavin, Chair/Founder

LEVERAGEDWISDOM
New York & Florida Offices
richard.lavin@leveragedwisdom.com
(917) 405-6987

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