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Month: June 2015

A guaranteed way to improve meetings

By Marten Mickos | June 28, 2015

To improve meetings, start from the end. At the end of each meeting, ask the participants to rate it. Over time, the meetings you run will improve.

Posted in Collaboration, Culture and Values, Managing People, Video and tagged as meetings. Leave a comment

Jim Whitehurst of Red Hat shares his best leadership advice

By Marten Mickos | June 24, 2015

“The mistake that young CEOs make is they feel like they need to grow up,” says Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s largest open source software company. Read on for his best management advice on the three levels of leadership.

Posted in Boatside Chat, Culture and Values, Managing People, Startups, Video and tagged as Jim Whitehurst, performance. Leave a comment

Weekly reports: small to do, big for success

By Marten Mickos | June 21, 2015

Improve management team cohesion with weekly progress reports. When you do this, team meetings become more effective as you can concentrate on cooperation and forward-looking topics.

Posted in Collaboration, Managing People, Time Management, Video and tagged as management team, meetings, reporting. Leave a comment

Indu Navar: Women! Network that female power

By Marten Mickos | June 16, 2015

How we can get more women CEO’s and founders? Silicon Valley entrepreneur Indu Navar challenges women to network. Women helping one another actively drives progress. Women rising to leadership positions benefits everyone: it helps both the ecosystem and the economy.

Posted in Collaboration, Video. Leave a comment

First time CEO, go conquer the world!

By Marten Mickos | June 14, 2015

If you are a first-time CEO, you have many strengths! You do the impossible, learn faster, get challenged and work hard. Go out and build a fantastic, scalable, sustainable business!

Posted in Disruptive businesses, Video and tagged as CEO. Leave a comment

Why being a CEO is a wonderful job

By Marten Mickos | June 11, 2015

Your hands are on the steering wheel. You own your timetable and priorities, have control over interactions, learn about yourself and exert a positive influence.

Posted in Managing People and tagged as CEO. 1 Comment

Indu Navar: Facing your fears: fake it till you make it

By Marten Mickos | June 10, 2015

When you are a young shy startup CEO, how do you face your fears of being in front of people? Here is how Indu Navar did it. She wrote herself a script, memorized it and became confident in telling her story.

Posted in Boatside Chat, Managing oneself, Video and tagged as confidence, Indu Navar. 2 Comments

How the role of the board reflects on the CEO

By Marten Mickos | June 7, 2015

The board of directors of a company has three main responsibilities. 1) The board appoints the CEO. 2) They continually assess the CEO. 3) The board ensures proper governance. How do these reflect on the CEO?

Posted in Board of Directors, Video and tagged as CEO, Governance. Leave a comment

Why being a CEO is such a lonely hard job

By Marten Mickos | June 4, 2015

Being a CEO is a lonely hard job. You are a Single Point of Failure. If you fail, the company suffers. Great CEOs help make the world a better place. But the upsides come with downsides. There is a price you have to pay for being a CEO.

Posted in Featured, Managing oneself and tagged as CEO. Leave a comment

Indu Navar: Women CEOs: Forget the pinstripes

By Marten Mickos | June 3, 2015

The ten steps to becoming a successful female CEO: Follow your dream and concentrate on the opportunities. Learn a new level of assertiveness, clarity and focus and be the woman you are.

Posted in Boatside Chat, Video and tagged as female entrepreneurs, Indu Navar. 2 Comments

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