It’s time. It’s Business Drive Time® in Kansas City. The region has been experiencing a growing reputation for many years. Lately, we’ve become an ever-expanding national story, and for great reasons. Kansas City has much to be proud of. We are working with a group of local leaders and innovators on a business growth tour of the Kansas City region. The purpose is a platform [Continue Reading]
Leadership
Alpha Board 2024 Fresh Octane® Tour
Who are the leaders that are moving American business forward? It’s Business Drive Time®, and we are looking for some of the greatest business drivers regionally and nationally to feature in the Alpha® Board Fresh Octane Tour. [Continue Reading]
All Dressed Up and Ready to Grow – Part II
Layoffs from existing businesses are not the only market event that causes new small businesses to be birthed. I’ve noticed consistently that even the best performing leaders within existing businesses, and maybe especially the best performers, start to get restless after age 40. They begin to reflect on where they’ll go, and how they’ll own their own piece of American [Continue Reading]
Former Fortune 500 CEO Talks Crisis Leadership
While pundits and experts are churning out a plethora of books analyzing the causes of the 2008 economic crisis, it’s refreshing to find a practical book that provides some good thinking on how to manage for success in crisis situations. In his new book, “7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis,” Harvard Business School Professor and former Medtronic CEO and Chairman Bill George, [Continue Reading]
The Mojo Moment
4:53 a.m. August 18, 2009 Have You Ever Been Struck By Lightning? Have you ever experienced that “Mojo Moment” in your business? Can you name the time and place? Can you name the result, how it was handled, and whether you actually achieved anything based on that instant? [Continue Reading]