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Jim Canfield, author of CEO Tools 2.0 and veteran Vistage speaker, discusses how to approach a successful strategic reset post COVID19.

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Once you have narrowed down your pool of candidates, you will want to bring them in for interviews. When interviewing the candidates

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As trust is the foundation of a high-functioning team, Jim Canfield – President at CEO Tools, Author, Coach, and Advisor – depicts how t...

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One of the simplest ways to build trust is to interact with everyone in your organization—not just your direct reports, but the front-line p

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There’s no reason for recognition to come only from the top. In the best-performing companies, recognition goes up, down, and sideways.

It’s important to celebrate the milestones along the journey to success. And it’s our job as managers and leaders to cheerlead, thank, and p

Autonomous organizations must be sustainable, which means that the systems and processes continue and are maintained over time. A sustainabl

Building an autonomous company means the organization and its processes must be the center hub, rather than a person. Remember management gu