Welcome to the thirty-first issue of CEE News!
30 years ago, if I had wanted to apply for a business loan, I would have had to ask a male relative or my husband to co-sign. That seems incomprehensible today.
What is not incomprehensible, however, is the cumulative progress women have made in the three decades since the 1988 passage of H.R. 5050. The Women’s Business Ownership Act enabled women to enter and enrich every field that we have stepped into - from engineering to entrepreneurship, from pharmaceuticals to physics.
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
If you’ve been in the housing market any time in the last ten years, you’ve probably spent a lot of time on Zillow. In case you have not been one of the website’s 188 million monthly visitors, Zillow is an online real estate database that allows users to search millions of for-sale and rental listings.
What most people outside of the company don’t know about Zillow is that it has an impressive Glassdoor rating of 4.2 (out of 5), has made Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list on four occasions, and CEO Spencer Rascoff has made ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: I’ve been hearing a lot lately about developing a personal brand, but I’m not sure how to do it without coming off as self-promoting. What advice can you share about how women in business can build a personal brand?
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Welcome to the thirtieth issue of CEE News!
Last week, we worked with executives at two credit unions on leadership and culture transformation. One of the credit unions has been on the culture transformation journey for over five years. The other is just starting out. In both cases, we’re using the 4-stage roadmap to culture transformation developed by our Co-Founder, Dr. Tony Baron to help them achieve success. The four stages are: Instruct, Invest, Integrate, and Incarnate.
The credit union that has been on the culture transformation journey for over five years has achieved many ...
Sticky solutions to your everyday business challenges
Question: Our annual senior leadership retreat is coming up this month. Every year, we leave the retreat with a list of commitments to improve our culture by improving ourselves as leaders. We don’t have a formal system of holding ourselves accountable, but I would like to hold myself personally accountable. Do you have any suggestions for how to build a “no excuses” mentality?
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A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
In August 2013, an idea sprang to life in a 2-car garage that today is threatening to put Costco out of business. Chieh Huang founded Boxed (aka Costco for Millennials) when he realized that none of the big box warehouse titans offered home delivery of bulk-ordered items.
As Huang studied the market, he found that U.S. warehouse clubs made about $200 billion in annual top line revenue. Virtually 0% of that was sold on mobile channels. He created an app that offered the ability to take advantage of big box prices with the ...
Welcome to the twenty-ninth issue of CEE News!
More than 15 years ago, Jim Collins, author of the best selling Good to Great, introduced the flywheel as a business metaphor. “A company achieves excellence,” Collins wrote, by “relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel in one direction, turn upon turn, building momentum until a point of breakthrough.”
The last edition of the Harvard Business Review of 2017 included a ranking of the 100 top CEO’s in the world. What’s interesting, is that the rubric for making the list included not only financial results, but environment, governance, ...
A closer look at companies executing leadership excellence
On December 29, 2012, employees at New Belgium Brewing started getting more than a paycheck. They got a 100% ownership stake in the company, and even more reason to be stewards in its success.
Today, over 750 employees of the Fort Collins, CO, based brewer participate in the company’s 100% Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). They also get to take advantage of an on-site gym, climbing wall, volleyball courts, and one hour of paid time off for every two hours of volunteer work.
With all the time for play and volunteering, you ...