by Jim Schleckser | May 6, 2015 | Delegation
Take Your Time Back One thing that all great CEOs have in common is that they have control over their calendar. Here are six questions to see if you have control over your schedule. As part of my job, I talk to hundreds of CEOs every year trying to identify the...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 24, 2015 | Business, Customers, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Marketing
Just about every role in a business these days, including that of the CEO, involves receiving and passing along information to someone else. Maybe it’s the sales reports you need to share with your board of directors about, or maybe even it’s the...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 10, 2015 | Business, Decision Making, Delegation, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Strategy
One of the most important jobs any leader does is decide what issues to tackle inside the organization at any given time. But how do you choose which ones are the most critical? Risk is a major component in deciding what comes first. Consider the analogy of a naval...
by Jim Schleckser | Mar 9, 2015 | Leadership
Work Smarter, Not Harder Great CEOs rarely enter into Player Mode. Rather, his or her first move is to find someone else to do the work. When most CEOs find their company getting into some kind of bind, they jump in to personally help resolve the issue. We call this...
by Jim Schleckser | Feb 12, 2015 | Growth
Cash In on Cash Flow Not all recurring revenue business models are equally valuable. You can think of it as a scale with five levels where the higher your business model falls on the scale, the more valuable it is. And the key to value, in this case, is making it hard...
