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7 Traits of an Effective Executive

Vistage Staff — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:44:00 +0000

Ruben Guzman is the father of four children. He knows raising one child can be very different from raising another. “If you’re a parent, and you think there is a one-size-fits-all approach for parenting, you are in for a rude...

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Women in Leadership 2020: A powerful journey in a single day

Vistage Staff — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:13:00 +0000

https://vimeo.com/451323763 Women in Leadership 2020 was the first event of its kind for Vistage. Bringing together a national, virtual audience of hundreds of female Chairs, members and member candidates, the event on Aug. 21, 2020, raised the bar on the...

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4 ways to build a stronger culture in a tight labor market

Joe Galvin — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:00:23 +0000

Leadership is hard, even in the best of times. But when the economy is slowing and the labor market is tight, CEOs find decision making exponentially more difficult — especially when those decisions have to do with finding talent to...

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5 reinvention rules that saved 3M from bankruptcy

Greg Bustin — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:00:33 +0000

“If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.” — WILLIAM L. MCKNIGHT 3M is one of the world’s most innovative companies, having generated more than 100,000 patents since its 1902 founding. But in...

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Do You Think Like an Innovator?

AmyK Hutchens — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:01:02 +0000

"I approach every project with a new insecurity," stated Frank Gehry, world renowned architect of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, among others.

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Who’s Planting Solution Seeds?

AmyK Hutchens — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:10:26 +0000

No better place to take the pulse of how America's leaders and thinkers are truly feeling about our future than here at the Milken Institute Global Conference, and from their attitudes and remarks, one can't but surmise that everyone's a bit bewildered and befuddled with today's state of play.

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Where’s a crystal ball when you need one?

AmyK Hutchens — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:48:14 +0000

66% of the 3000 conference attendees predict that it will be 2013 before Americans' net worth will return to its mid-2007 peak. Are they pessimists or realists?

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How to fail successfully

Sally Hogshead — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:54:54 +0000

This first day of the Milken Conference was filled with a daunting array of success symbols: black Armani suits and black Town Cars, entourages of assistants, and the CEO paparazzi (whose flashes exploded in glittering unison each time a session began).

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Corn dogs, fluffy pillows, and burned flags: Fixing a broken brand

Sally Hogshead — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:59:36 +0000

Odds are, upon reading these two little words, your reaction is decidedly negative. Maybe worse. And that decidedly negative reaction was precisely the challenge facing Stephen J. Cloobeck when he became Chairman and CEO of Diamond Resorts International, a time share company with almost 25,000 guest beds in 26 countries. Named “Sunterra,” the brand was notorious for high-pressure sales tactics and poor follow-through, and unanswered customer complaints riddled the company’s reputation online. (Perhaps worst of all were the hideously-Technicolor bedspreads and pillows. More on that later.)

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Valet Park, Self Park or South Park… What’s Your Brand?

AmyK Hutchens — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:54:48 +0000

Stephen J. Cloobeck, Chairman and CEO of Diamond Resorts International, a company with 150+ branded and affiliated resorts in 26 countries, shared today that if you want "to bring value to a busted brand, you start with the details." For Cloobeck, this means a direct access email address available to every customer and a winning smile with the word "yes" at the tip of his tongue. With these details, and a few others, Cloobeck has built one of the largest vacation ownership companies in the world in an era when the words "time share" can leave a bitter taste in your mouth.

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