From Sales To CEO
Developing A Company’s Competitive Advantage
The most desired background for a chief executive officer changes from time to time. For at least the past decade, the Ivy League MBA was the preferred path to executive leadership. The MBA provided exposure to marketing and finance, the two areas needed for a CEO to drive market differentiation and corporate sustainability. The MBA degree, coupled with work experience in finance and marketing, constituted the CEO path. However, today, this accepted wisdom is becoming outmoded. Current market and economic turbulence, caused by financial wizards (many of them with Ivy League MBA’s) and exacerbated by globalization and the IT revolution have diminished the value of this conventional path. There are a myriad of compelling reasons for this shift in demand of CEO qualifications.
Wake-Up Call
A Moment Of Truth For Domestic Manufacturing
The debate over the future of U.S. manufacturing is intensifying. Optimists point to the relatively cheap dollar and the shrinking wage gap between China and the U.S. as reasons the American manufacturing sector could come back to life. And there are indeed positive signs: inventories are up, and some jobs are returning from overseas. But when disappointing economic growth indicators are released, the pessimists weigh in. They argue that the U.S. has permanently lost its manufacturing competitiveness in many sectors to China, India, and elsewhere; that the sector is still declining after years of offshoring and neglect; and that it might never return to its role as the linchpin of the U.S. economy.
Utility Savings
What’s Missing From Your 2012 Facility Budget
Budgeting in the past two years has become increasingly difficult for most companies, as spending levels keep changing and financial security and visibility disappear. Fuel cost increases and recent commodity sell-offs aren’t helping matters either.
Yet a well thought-out budget is still needed to save thousands in operating expenses for the next year, particularly when dealing with energy and utilities expenses. The cost of electricity, gas, and water can be among the most volatile costs affecting your financial situation and can total 25 percent of your total operating costs.
Online Reputation Enhancement & Defense
The Race To Dominate The Top Ten Search Engine Listings
Today reputations are being made or broken in an instant. An online profile, be it for executive or company, is the 21st century equivalent of the first, and lasting, impression. Today, no business or industry, civic or political leader can afford, even for one day, to be beaten up or buried in their search engine listings.
