by Buddy Hobart | Aug 6, 2020 | Buddy Hobart, Leadership, The Leadership Decade, Uncategorized
In any business, from startup to Fortune 500, the CEO is the only individual who is peerless. (Of course, I am dismissing the rare exception when co-CEOs exist.) Overwhelmingly, a CEO has no equal within the organization. If we accept the challenge that our best...
by Buddy Hobart | Jul 31, 2020 | Buddy Hobart, Leadership, The Leadership Decade, Uncategorized
The leadership decade requires leaders to accept the fact that a major part of their role as leaders is to invest time and energy into individuals’ continuous leadership improvement. In order to succeed as a leader, it will be critical to be extraordinarily...
by Buddy Hobart | Jul 24, 2020 | Buddy Hobart, Leadership, The Leadership Decade, Uncategorized
In the 1980s and 1990s, people joined organizations, not people. Folks joined organizations and did not dig deeply into whom they worked for and what they would be working on. In the 20th century, “name brand” companies like IBM and Xerox had an advantage by having...
by Buddy Hobart | Jul 19, 2020 | Buddy Hobart, Leadership, The Leadership Decade, Uncategorized
One of the biggest challenges a business owner has is determining where to allocate expense dollars. In Fortune 500 companies, budgets are set, and departments can spend the budgeted money. The money belongs to thousands of shareholders with which there is rarely any...
by Buddy Hobart | Jul 11, 2020 | Buddy Hobart, Leadership, The Leadership Decade, Uncategorized
In March 2015, Bill Gates delivered a TED Talk, where he seemed to predict the global pandemic, COVID-19. Nearly everything he talked about during that video became a reality in 2020. During his 2015 presentation, Gates did not know exactly how much of an investment...
by Buddy Hobart | Jul 5, 2020 | Buddy Hobart, Leadership, The Leadership Decade, Uncategorized
I am a big believer in starting with the end in mind. Therefore, let’s lay out, right up front, what you’ll be hearing from me and our team over the next several months. In short, we’ll be talking about leadership, especially leadership in mid-market...
