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The CEO Refresher is your portal to the best brains on the planet! Creative leadership, innovation, leading change, executive intelligence and insight. We are pleased to announce that The CEO Refresher is once again publishing new articles. The untimely death of founder and publisher Rick Sidorowicz in September 2011 left the site in a void. Rick devoted a great deal of time and effort into developing and managing the CEO Refresher, and believed passionately in its value in providing the executive intelligence you need to lead well in these turbulent times. We wish to continue bringing you the articles and resources you have come to count on from The CEO Refresher.

Latest Articles

The HR Refresher

Employees Perceived as Overqualified Experience Lack of Commitment

by Steve Picarde

Employees who feel they are overqualified are often dissatisfied with their jobs, uncommitted to their company, and experience psychological strain. A good hiring process with additional questions built into the interview and a behavioral assessment will help guard against hiring people with an overqualified mindset.

Personal Development

Resiliency: An Equal Opportunity Resource

by Eileen McDargh

Resiliency is not about bouncing “back.” It’s about growing through challenge as well as opportunity. Join resiliency expert Eileen McDargh as she provides you with four actions to practice in order to build resiliency as a critical life skill.

Insight & Commentary

Conscious Consumption: Being as Selective of the Data We Consume as We Are With Our Food

by John Renesch

Imagine being as conscious and informed about where your information comes from as you are about the produce you buy. Whether you lean to the left or the right, or have any other ideological leanings or biases, you might want to be a bit more selective in what you take in as truth or fact.

The HR Refresher

Picking Winners- A Hiring Guide for Small and Mid-sized Businesses

by Daniel D. Elash, PhD

Selecting new employees, new team members, new representatives of your brand are a vital activity, especially for small and mid-sized businesses. You can make substantially better hires by following the steps outlined in this article.

Creative Leadership

3 Things to Never Do When Asking for Help

by Alain Hunkins

To build teams and foster collaboration, leaders need to hone a supplementary skill: Asking for help. In the present-day workplace, a leader is only as good as their network. But the basic skill of making a request is not enough: how you go about asking for help can make or break your business relationships and […]

Marketing Insight

There Can Be No Growth Strategy Without a Culture for Growth

by Laura Patterson

As one of the primary customer-facing functions of your organization, Marketing will inevitably mirror the internal culture. So no matter how well the Marketing formulates a growth strategy, they will only spur success if they exist within a culture of growth.

Performance Improvement

7 Reasons Employees Drop Balls

by Marlene Chism

A common complaint I hear from my executive clients is, “My employees drop balls!” Part of the problem is that employees don’t realize they are dropping balls. This article includes a seven point checklist to help you diagnose the root cause of dropped balls.

Creative Leadership

Are Servant Leaders Obsolete?

by Eileen McDargh

The current public personas of people whom we would title “leaders” are a far cry from the model Robert Greenleaf developed during his 40 years with American Telephone and Telegraph (now AT&T). Learn how he created servant leadership and what it means to be a servant leader.

Leading Change

When Should You Pull Your Starting Pitcher?

by Ray Ritter

At what point should a CEO change the implementation of a business initiative? Change too early, and you risk team dissension. Change too late, and you risk confirming Einstein’s definition of insanity, i.e., doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Creative Leadership

5 Tips for Senior Leadership to Liven Up Their Influencing and Persuading—and Get More Results

by Jim Poage and Jennifer Poage

Does the old marketing saying, “People buy on emotion and then justify the buy rationally,” apply to CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior executives?

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Employees Perceived as Overqualified Experience Lack of Commitment

Resiliency: An Equal Opportunity Resource

Conscious Consumption: Being as Selective of the Data We Consume as We Are With Our Food

Picking Winners- A Hiring Guide for Small and Mid-sized Businesses

3 Things to Never Do When Asking for Help

There Can Be No Growth Strategy Without a Culture for Growth

7 Reasons Employees Drop Balls

Are Servant Leaders Obsolete?

When Should You Pull Your Starting Pitcher?

5 Tips for Senior Leadership to Liven Up Their Influencing and Persuading—and Get More Results