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Winter 2009
Inside the Winter 2009 Issue: When Down Turns Up Members of the Alliance of Chief Executives aren’t content with merely riding out the current economic storm. These leaders are acting—right now—to gain advantages for when the financial cycle is back on the upswing. From improving communications and restructuring organizations to…
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Tom Siebel
Tom Siebel, founder and CEO of Siebel Systems, spoke candidly about how the current environment has changed and discussed the transition from a focus on information technologies to energy, health and clean-tech.
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CEOs Band Together to Find Someone to Talk To
As the economic storm rages, company chief executives are turning to peer-to-peer support groups to help each other ride out the recession. Vistage International Inc., the largest of such groups, reports a record 1,800 new CEOs joined Vistage in 2008, an 8 percent increase over the number who joined in…
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Ethan Plotkin
Ethan has been CEO since November, 2007. In that time, the company has achieved all major performance objectives, and employee attrition is nearly nil. Over the previous year before assuming the CEO role, Ethan worked with GDCA while based in London and was responsible for developing business in Europe and…
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When & How to Develop Strategic Partnerships that Work…and Avoid Wasting Time on Those that Don’t
By Raji Nagarkar and Steven Siner Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Inc. Today more than ever, successful companies are employing strategic partnerships to gain competitive advantage. These vehicles can help companies expand their capabilities and market share at a much greater pace than going it alone. The reasons for strategic…
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Bill Campbell
We were pleased to welcome Bill Campbell back to the Alliance. Bill is the Chairman of Intuit. He discussed his philosophies on leadership and management gained from a fascinating career as both a senior executive at several companies including GO Corporation, Claris Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company and as head…
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The Resilient CEO
When adversity hit, these leaders battled back and gave us all something to learn Inside Alliance private working groups, we hear with some regularity jaw-dropping events that land on the chief executive’s desk. Sometimes they are simply challenging opportunities, but often they are disasters that threaten the survival of the…
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Warren Bryant
Warren Bryant, Chairman & CEO of Longs Drugs Stores Corporation joined us for our East Bay regional meeting. Warren discussed the lessons he learned in his career with The Kroger Company and now as CEO of Longs.
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Anne Bisagno
Anne Bisagno created the Xantrion brand and its offerings, quickly growing the business and gaining exposure in the business community. She has formed strategic partnerships with a number of organizations including Microsoft, the Small Business Development Center, and the Schwab Small Institutional Investor Division. She is also responsible for administrative…
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Tim Brown
Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO, the world's leading design consultancy specializing in turnkey product development and innovation strategy joined us for our San Francisco regional meeting. Tim discusssed his special interest in cultivating great design and innovative thinking within multidisciplinary teams.
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Fall 2008
Inside the Fall 2008 Issue: The Resilient CEO Inside Alliance private working groups, we discuss some jaw-dropping events that land on the chief executive’s desk. Sometimes they are simply challenging opportunities, but often they are disasters that threaten the survival of the business. From hundreds of incredible survival stories, we’ve…
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Standing Out From the Crowd
By Robert Sher We humans like to put everything in its place. Lawyers deal with the law, and behave seriously, like a judge. Doctors deal with medicine, and they do it seriously. After all, our life is at stake. And accountants deal with books and records, and they are quiet…
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Sequoia Capital’s Advice to their Portfolio CEOs
Sequoia Capital gathered the CEOs of their portfolio companies together for an “emergency meeting” subsequent to the meltdown of the financial markets. They presented their analysis of the current economic crisis and their recommendations to their portfolio CEOs to save their money. You can check out their presentation by clicking…
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Outlasting Hard Times
By Robert Sher Hard times can befall a business for many reasons, only one of which is the economy. As I write this, there is lots of negativity in the media and the stock market, so it's easy to start panicking and running a business too conservatively. Running a business…
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Five Mistakes CFOs Need to Avoid in a Volatile Economy
Foreword by Paul Witkay, Founder of The Alliance of Chief Executives Below is an article by Tatum LLC on the “Five Mistakes CFOs Need to Avoid in a Volatile Economy.” These recommendations certainly apply to CEOs as well. The Alliance is committed to helping our members to be open and…
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Extreme Partnering
By Robert Sher There we were, 11 CEOs sitting in a conference room in Marin County: All members of the Alliance of Chief Executives, bringing the business issues we'd been banging our heads, trying to sort out. That was the first time we got the taste of the extreme ‘sport’…
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Bob Sutton
Robert Sutton is the author of The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't. Bob is also a Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, an active member of the Stanford…
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The New CEO as a Change Agent
By Robert Sher More and more I hear discussion about on-boarding—the art and science of bringing talent on board and helping them acclimatize to the company—so they fit in, get oriented and productive quickly. But what if they're supposed to be a change agent? If the newcomer is supposed to…
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Keeping Your Team Focused on your Value-Creation Strategy
By Robert Sher There are a lot of ways of creating very valuable businesses. But John Keagy, CEO of ServePath knows that his way of creating value is by being fast and agile: Being the first in the market with a new service or product. He's done it over and…
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Finding the Green in Green Biz
With gas prices averaging over $4.50 a gallon, could there be any better time to be selling electric motorcycles? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean Alliance member Zero Motorcycles – which sells an electric trail motorcycle that gets up to 40 miles on a single battery charge – has got…
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Regis McKenna
Regis McKenna founded his own high tech marketing firm, Regis McKenna, Inc., in Silicon Valley in 1970 after working in the marketing departments of two early semiconductor pioneering companies. McKenna is included in the San Jose Mercury News' Millennium 100 as one of the 100 people who made Silicon Valley…
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Summer 2008
Inside the Summer 2008 Issue: Finding the Green in Green Biz Energy prices, concern over global warming and tons of venture capital are fueling the green business explosion. Yet running a green or “cleantech” business carries its own set of challenges. Several Alliance members and green CEOs explain what it's…
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Beginning With the End in Mind
By Kathryn Meier, Esq. Imagine that your company is seeking to merge or be acquired only to discover that the “change in control” provisions in your compensation agreements are scaring away potential suitors. Internal inconsistencies within your agreements (employment agreements, change in control agreements, severance plans, equity incentive plans, supplemental…
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Tom Campbell
Tom Campbell, Dean of the Haas School of Business joined us for our San Francisco Regional Alliance Meeting. Prior to leading the Haas Business School, Tom was a five-time congressman for Silicon Valley and took one year to assist Governor Schwarzenegger as the Director of Finance for California. Tom led…
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Pat Lashinsky
Pat Lashinsky is an experienced CEO who builds companies by drawing from past experiences leading marketing, product management, technology, innovation, strategy, and managing P&Ls in both large companies and start-ups. Pat enjoys engaging with dynamic teams and executives, and fast paced high growth companies. He builds elite teams that create…
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Rich Geruson
Alliance member, Rich Geruson, discussed some of the lessons learned while leading a number of mobile technology companies. Geruson has held senior executive and general management positions at Nokia, IBM, Toshiba and McKinsey & Company. Most recently he was CEO of VoiceSignal, a world leader in voice-enabled mobile search and…
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Bill Novelli
Bill Novelli is the leader of one of the most powerful organizations in the country, AARP, with 38 million members. Bill spoke with our Alliance CEOs about issues including “Re-engineering Healthcare” and “How America Can Afford to Grow Older.”
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Paul Witkay and David Hayes, CEO of Skyline Construction
Alliance Founder & CEO, Paul Witkay and Alliance member, David Hayes, CEO of Skyline Construction, were interviewed by Gary Allen on KNBR 680AM to discuss how David has created a unique, open-book management culture that has built Skyline into the fastest growing construction company in the Bay Area. David also…
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Thinking Downturn - Or Up?
By Warren Lutz Alex Dodd (Group 272) sees nothing wrong with the economy – at least on the surface. When he walks down the street from the offices of M Squared Consulting, Inc. in San Francisco, where he serves as president and CEO, the retail stores look full. So do…
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Choosing Relationships over Meteoric Growth
By Robert Sher It was one of those woo-hoo kind of days in 2006 for CEO Jodi Andrews and her co-founder and President Inger Arum of Pro-Trials, a clinical trials staffing firm in Mountain View, CA. They had just gotten a call from a loyal client with impeccable financials. This…
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