The implicit understanding among Alliance members is that, in exchange for their willingness to share their own experience and knowledge, they gain access to the extraordinary collective wisdom of the Alliance community of CEOs. Our members do amazing things and here we've collected some of their lessons learned to preserve and highlight the wealth of knowledge in our membership. Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay, also shares his perspectives on topics such as leadership, strategy and innovation.
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As business leaders grapple with the emerging work paradigm as the pandemic grinds on, the decision to remain fully remote, return to the office, or explore the option of finding balance with a hybrid plan is an ongoing point of consideration. Every business has different needs to consider regarding how to navigate this new chapter of the working world. Here, Alliance members Anne Bisagno of Xantrion, Rob Chamberlin of Security 101 and Tootie Tatum of Blackhawk Genomics share their insights on this very relevant topic faced by many leaders today.
Read MoreCase categories include: Culture Founder’s Insights Health Leadership Trends
Since September 1996 when Alliance of Chief Executives members first gathered, we have had the privilege to work with thousands of inspiring leaders who strive to create organizations that make a difference. As we celebrate our 25th year as a thriving leadership community, we reflect on the contributions of our Alliance members who have shaped our community and strengthened our journey. We spoke to our members to discover the many ways the Alliance has shaped their leadership journeys. Here we share some of their experiences from throughout the years.
Read MoreCase categories include: Culture Founder’s Insights Leadership
Promoting candor within your company values and culture can create a number of organizational benefits, and perhaps even uncover the next world-changing idea. Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay shares his thoughts on the power of candor.
Read MoreCase categories include: Culture Founder’s Insights Leadership
Strong business leadership during COVID revolves around trusting employees to do their best in remote environments. These approaches shared by Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay can help you build a strong employer/employee bond.
Read MoreCase categories include: Culture Founder’s Insights Leadership
Critical situations demand calm, steady guidance. While many leaders may be operating in a mode of crisis management through the pandemic, these leadership styles shared by Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay can help guide your enterprise through the storm.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership
As we gradually emerge from the global pandemic, applying these COVID-19 leadership lessons to your business can help prepare you for the next new normal.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Strategy & Planning
Developing a strong business innovation strategy requires attentive observation, creative analysis, and out-of-the box thinking. Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay shares his thoughts on how to get it done.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Strategy & Planning
As companies prepare for what’s ahead, understanding what employees need from leadership right now is critical. While the specifics may differ, there are common elements that can set CEOs up for success. Approaches shared in this article by Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay can help both you and your workforce pull through this tumultuous period.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership
Over the course of his four decade entrepreneurial career, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay has learned his fair share of tough business lessons. Here, he shares some thoughts for first-time CEOs in the hope that these six points will help lay a strong foundation for their long-term success.
Read MoreCase categories include: Executive Development Founder’s Insights Leadership
Staying resilient is essential when faced with adversity. These COVID-19 leadership resources shared by Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay can help you build that strength.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Strategy & Planning
By working with so many CEOs within our diverse community, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay has seen how today’s innovative leaders are already anticipating the upcoming challenges and opportunities next year will surely bring. Here are a few thoughts to help us plan how to take decisive, positive actions in 2021—despite the current unpredictability.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Strategy & Planning
Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay shares some of the learnings and experiences other CEOs have shared with him, along with a few words of wisdom about the importance and value of developing leadership diversity and how to face some of the challenges involved.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership
Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay has had the privilege of working alongside some of the brightest business minds in the world who lead companies in virtually every industry. The pandemic nonetheless has taken many of these leaders by surprise. Read on to learn his observations about how they are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership
It may seem daunting, but strengthening leadership during change and uncertainty for an organization starts with the CEO. Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay, shares what he has learned from many great CEOs and executives about how you can weather change in your organization.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership
The world is changing at exponential rates and, as a result, the competition for talent, customers and investors is more intense than ever. Competitors are now global, and new entrants can appear at any time and from any place. So that others may feel they can make a meaningful difference in this dynamic new world, leaders must be able to communicate the opportunity of joining them in their cause. In this article, Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay, discusses some of the ideas behind Simon Sinek’s latest book, The Infinite Game, and the critical need to cultivate an infinite mindset.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Strategy & Planning
Disruptive innovations are being announced almost every day. New technologies are enabling scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to create a constant stream of innovations designed to make our lives better. Inspired by his recent travels exploring the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu, witnessing the amazing examples of how different species adapted to dramatic changes in their environments, Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay discusses the need to take advantage of all of our collective wisdom to identify fresh approaches to today’s increasingly complex challenges.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership
It’s more comfortable to surround ourselves with people who share similar views and values. But we must learn to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. The world is changing more rapidly than ever and our ability to change typically happens when we think differently than we did before. Therefore, it’s imperative that we seek out as many intelligent people as we can with experience, knowledge and ideas different from our own. In this article, Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay, describes the need for CEOs to surround themselves with intelligent diversity so they will be better equipped to think creatively, and to make big, strategic decisions that move their organizations forward.
Read MoreCase categories include: Executive Development Founder’s Insights Leadership
We are now living in an age in which technology cycles outpace planning cycles. Undergoing an exponential pace of change, we can no longer depend upon creating a plan to be executed. Agility and speed will typically trump a larger competitor’s size or ability to scale. In this article, Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay, reflects on our current pace of change and the need for leaders to broaden and deepen their access to ideas, information and other leaders.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Strategy & Planning
Healthy communities of the future will need to not only foster trust but also life-long learning, as well as be socially and economically inclusive. Here, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay, shares his learnings from Thomas Friedman’s latest book, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, and the value of local communities providing a solid foundation to help people adapt to inevitable progress.
Read MoreCase categories include: Founder’s Insights Leadership Trends
While the world is changing at an exponential rate of speed as industry after industry is being transformed, most CEOs are either seeking breakthrough ideas that will disrupt back, or are in fear of falling behind – or both. Here, Alliance Founder & CEO Paul Witkay shares four types of breakthroughs as learned from Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack’s latest book, The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking. The authors describe not only their findings based on neuroscience, but also provide practical tools one can use to increase the probability for creating breakthrough ideas.
Read MoreCase categories include: Entrepreneurship Executive Development Founder’s Insights Leadership
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