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Business Services

Vistage Expands With New Northwest Arkansas Group

Vistage, a worldwide facilitator of private advisory groups for CEOs, senior executives and business owners, has announced the first chief executive group in northwest Arkansas, led by Terry Bowen, Vistage chair and co-founder and CEO of Sew in Heaven LLC of Fayetteville. read more >
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Construction

Developing Your Bench (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

A succession plan means not only knowing who could move into an open slot, but what development gaps the candidate has for readiness and what the plans are for filling those gaps. read more >
Agriculture & Poultry / Banking & Finance / Business Services

A Master Class in Feedback (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

Every year, aspiring singers participate in auditions for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Judges provide feedback to each of the singers. Most of the conversations were great examples of powerful feedback, delivered with skill and impact. read more >
Business Services / Construction / Education

Getting ‘Unstuck’ (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

Anyone who runs a business is familiar with how easy it is to spend every day heads down in the business. But the same efficiency a leader gains with day-to-day operation also leads to tunnel vision. A leader can easily become isolated as well as stale. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Agriculture & Poultry / Banking & Finance / Business Services

How to Listen (It’s Not Easy) (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

Listening is hard. Like most things that we all do, there are levels of mastery that are only available to those who practice and train. Here then is a quick overview and some suggestions about how to become a better listener. read more >
From left: Nick Brown, Darrin Williams and Rhonda McKinnis are just a sampling of Arkansas executives finding support at Vistage.
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Education

Vistage Provides Group Therapy for Executives

When Arkansas CEOs come together at their Vistage support group, egos are checked at the door. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Business Services / Government & Politics

Changing of the Guard (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

Last month, all over the country, we experienced a change in leadership. With the elections behind us, new leaders stepped into roles in all branches of government. As is the case with new corporate leaders, the first weeks show us a lot about how our new political leaders will lead. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Education / Small Business

What’s Your Story? (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

If you could, like Shakespeare’s Henry V, walk anonymously in the hallways and meeting rooms of your business, what stories would you hear? Are they focused on historical challenges or on where the company is headed? Are they stories about what the organization can create or on limitations and problems from historical habits or even failures? read more >
Business Services / Education / Legal

You’re Not the Boss of Me (Gwen Moritz Editor’s Note)

It does seem to me that having leadership skills is one of those areas in which women still have to be better than men in order to be recognized, because men can still get away with demanding followership without immediately being written off as bossy. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Banking & Finance / Business Services / Construction

Accountability Sans Jerkiness (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

A CEO can delegate just about everything except culture. And every company will have a culture, whether it just happens or is implemented purposefully and continually by leadership in every decision and hire. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Business Services / Government & Politics / Media & Marketing

When a Leader Screws Up (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

We all make mistakes. Some are simple and practical, but as leaders we can screw up in visible, expensive and very painful ways. I have recently had the opportunity to experience firsthand the impact of a very personal screw-up (mine, I am afraid), which took me back to some best practices I have learned over the years for dealing with mistakes. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Business Services / Media & Marketing

Listening Tops the List (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

In the end, listening became the proverbial superpower that most of us thought had the greatest impact on leadership. From a first blush perspective, this seems fairly ho-hum. After all, we listen all the time, right? read more >
Business Services / Education / Nonprofits

Isaac Newton: Executive Coach (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

As it turns out, all of Isaac Newton’s laws of motion apply to human behavior — and especially to leading change. So, with apologies to the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, of which Sir Isaac was a member, here is my spin on Newton’s three laws of motion as they apply to people and organizations. read more >
Agriculture & Poultry / Banking & Finance / Business Services

The Power of Personal Presence (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

Here was the scene. About 250 unhappy travelers were all gathered in a crowded departure lounge. Weather and traffic snarls on the East Coast were playing havoc with getting equipment and people where they needed to be. Here are some powerful lessons in personal presence as modeled by a Delta pilot on a stormy night in Atlanta. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Business Services / Media & Marketing

Becoming a Leadership Engine (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

A succession plan includes the development required to prepare up-and-coming talent to move into that next job. Better yet, you could expand the idea to drive a next generation of leaders at all levels of the organization. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Banking & Finance / Media & Marketing

Must-Win Battles & Cannot-Miss Opportunities (Barry Goldberg On Leadership)

Here are three steps any business should take to focus attention on year-end sales and operations. read more >
I. Barry Goldberg
Media & Marketing

That’s My Story, Part II (I. Barry Goldberg Commentary)

Classic stories hold deeper meaning than the lastest bestselling business book.

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