The CEO Refresher is a featured recommended web site on Leadership in HBS Working Knowledge.

This is their review.

The CEO Refresher
"Brain food for business!" is the motto of this jaunty online newsletter that pulls together all sorts of valuable, practical information and advice and presents it in an intelligent yet whimsical style. Unlike many sites these days, the CEO Refresher's clean design practically sparkles in its role of supporting ideas and information. In this case, that information means insightful articles and tools, updated on a monthly basis, covering a variety of management issues, such as honing strategy, making the most of your board of directors, improving customer service, and targeting profits. Managers may well find inspiration, too, from "Words and Wisdom," the site's idiosyncratic collection of leadership quotes drawing on everyone from Ben Franklin to Peter Drucker to Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Three years ago today - January 29, 2005 - I received PARTNERING INTELLIGENCE by Stephen Dent from you. That book gave me some great ideas to strengthen existing partnerships and enter into new ones. Hope For The Blind Foundation which I head has experienced growth as a result of this gift and others I have received.

This is not a good work you are doing. IT IS A GREAT WORK. Keep up the great work.

Thank you.
Andrew Gani-Ikilama (Nigeria)

Nebraska Western Iowa Mensa features The CEO Refresher as a cool link.
Wow! Recommended by Mensans - that's serious brain food!

Createthefuture.com
Weekly Pick - Extensive List of Articles on Strategic Planning
The CEO Refresher has compiled an excellent list of strategic planning articles and resources. Some that stand out are Business Planning and Strategic Planning Revisited by Herb Rubenstein, The Art of Strategic Conversation by Skip Corsini, Wishes for Strategic Collaboration, by Helene Mazur (all of her articles are very good!), Building Support for the Strategic Plan: Aligning Employees with Strategy by Robert W. Bradford, and Running a Strategic Planning Session by Estelle Métayer, just to mention a few. For the full list with links to each article, go to: www.refresher.com.

I came across your website The CEO Refresher and wanted to tell you how informative and insightful it is. I’m in the business intelligence field and am always looking online for websites and blogs that apply to my profession. Your site has helped me in a number of ways and I have already referred a number of peers to your site.
Seema Haji

Thank you!

The CEO Refresher is a great resource for any leader at any level, and I highly recommend it to all my clients. Wishing you great success.
Jim Manton

Absolutely Brilliant !!!
The CEO refresher site is amazing. I found the info on your sight very insightful. Keep up the great work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best regards, Anne Houlihan

Thanks Anne

I browsed your website and found very insightful and wonderful articles. I am sure that I can be able to better my knowledge and functionality as a Customer-Focused Relations Executive in my organization. Keep up the wonderful “opportunities” you open up for hungry individuals like me.
Regards,
Joseph Thomas
Executive, Customer Relations

Thank you Joseph. You're in a vital role for your enterprise. Be the champion of a fact-based and mindful voice of the customer in your organization and you and your enterprise will excel. And always be 'hungry' - leading is learning!

Pimping the CEO Refresher
The CEO Refresher Newsletter is a good old fashioned e-newsletter (Sorry, no RSS feed yet, from what I can tell) that offers some of the most insightful news articles on running the business from other people who are running their repsective areas of business, doing a hell of a job, and living to write about it. I'm constantly impressed by the quality of the content. Check it out, or view a list of authors & the articles that they've contributed. Lots of great stuff here!
Dana VanDen Heuvel

Thanks Dana.

A website for new insights and inspiration is the CEO Refresher at www.refresher.com/ceo.html, a Canadian-edited online business magazine featuring short articles, checklists, book reviews and ideas. This site stands out as content-rich, compared to the many business websites that sound promising but are mostly advertisements.
Richmond Review and Richmond Public Library.

Merci

Please pardon me for writing so infrequently to thank you for your publication. As a consultant to, and teacher of, working managers (Seneca College and Schulich) in the area of customer care, I subscribe to about 100 newsletters. (I do a lot of research and writing. ;-) ) There are few which provide me with the consistent value that does your CEO Refresher. I usually need to budget at least an hour to read the articles in most of your letters that interest me. (It was five different ones in this issue. I really liked the one on "being real" and that on "re-recruiting".) Both went into my resource reading list for my customer service and HR courses.) As a fellow Canuk, the quality of your site and your newsletter makes me feel proud. I refer it and a number of your posted articles to about 200-300 managers a year who take my courses.
Gary Patton

Thanks Gary. We are on a mission to do good, and provide new insights to help bring more mindfulness to business. Your feedback makes it all worth while.
Rick

Your website is divine, beautiful, informative and excellent.
M. P. Bhattathiri

Great resource for entrepreneur's and small businesses! You guys are like a mini entrepreneur.com.
Gerrid Smith

I have just discovered your web site and had to send this message of congratulations. In two years of obsessive 'knowledge gathering' it is one of the best I've seen. Well designed, superb writing, inspirational. This is what the internet should be about. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Al Dickman

I'd like to thank you for such a brilliant and usefull web site you've created. It's one of those rare sites where I can spend hours reading the interesting articles.
Álvaro Ferraz

I think that this website is one of the best web sites that I have ever found while surfing the web. The articles are clear and concise and you get the impression that the people who write these articles are not people in think tanks and college campuses. A great big mahalo for making resources such as these so pleasant to read.
Yasuo Ogawa

I must confess refresher.com has been an invaluable partner since I found the "goldmine" through google a few months ago. I actually have a library of many articles I've been able to collate. "Everything" on your site is simply first class! In the CEO Refresher, I have the best take-off point any ambitious young entrepreneur can think of today!
Best regards,
Shina I. J. Olu-Young
Maiduguri, Borno State Nigeria

I look at different websites that offer new and innovative topics and your site is by-far the best. I plan to offer this website to be submitted for our national organization of parenting magazines newsletter. It was a great find! Thanks,
Amy

Hello, my name is Maria Kiamilidou and I am a Public Relations Practitioner from Greece. Through this email I would like to congratulate you for this website, I think you have done a really good work both with the articles you have published online and with the recommended bibliography. In those articles I have found very useful information that has made my work easier, it is a really good tool not only for marketing and PR practitioners but for every person that works in a company. Again, congratulations and keep on the good work.

The Wall Street Executive Library's "Best of the Net" Award for The CEO Refresher.  This award is granted to web sites that offer exceptional business resources to the net community.

I was genuinely surprised with your web site. I've grown accustomed to being offered the world through attention grabbing headlines, which actually precede constant prompts to fork over the green, if you want to enjoy the real substance included at the location. Click, no thanks, maybe later. I hope you can continue to provide what is a positive ROI when it comes to the time spent on the Web reading/researching. Thanks!
Otis Ward

The CEO Refresher has been recognized by the Editors at CyberU.com as one of the best academic resources on the Internet!

Top Web Sites for Management Guidance
By Kevin Voigt - Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal, From The Wall Street Journal Online
Those searching for management advice on the Information Superhighway will find few pit stops. Most sites on the topic are flimsy and dull, or thinly veil their true intent, like hawking a consulting company or other services. Many seem more interested in collecting statistical data on you than imparting wisdom on how to run a company. Others are simply keeping the electricity running on pages that haven't been updated in months. But a few Web pages do stand out in their look, ease of use and content, giving executives news they can truly use.

The CEO Refresher (www.refresher.com/ceo.html) has a strong mix of original stories on workplace and career issues. Updated monthly, the site features a mix of opinion ("Why Good Management Ideas Fail -- The neglected Power of Organization Culture" and "The Myth of Extinct Hierarchy") to pop psychology ("Five Ways to Develop Your Managerial Skill" and "Deep Listening: How Can It Make a Difference for You?"). The links on the site are expansive and divided smartly by topic. The best of the bunch.

The CEO Refresher is featured on baldridge plus.com, an impressive site on leadership &  performance excellence.

The CEO Refresher is acknowledged as one of the best resources for business on the web.

The CEO Refresher has been rated as one of the best educational resources on the Web by the researchers of Study Web.

Brain Food for Business! We accidentally stumbled upon this amazing site — The CEO Refresher. A superb collection of articles and links of interest to management personnel at all levels. Leadership, strategy, performance and business issues — it's all there.

A rich source of articles and insights on leadership, strategy, performance and more.
Deloitte & Touche

I think that your site is an extremely useful tool for executives that need access to information quickly.
Evonne Tran

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Jerry Noles

Your web-site is great, and there is a lot to learn for us!
Amaury de Saint Blanquat

The CEO Refresher: See what the executive sees, read what they read and go where they go to get the latest thinking and get plugged-in. CEO Refresher is an amazing resource of articles, books and links. Avg. visitor rating 5 stars.

I have recently visited your web site, in particular the Links to The CEO Refresher, and found it not only informative, but also a content rich business portal.
Paul Jenkins

I ran across your site while seaching the Internet in a continuing effort to improve my knowledge. The information you have provided is informational, educational, and applicable. I just wanted to write to show my appreciation. Thank you.
Jesse Delia

Congratulations on your excellent site!
Jet Magsaysay

I very much appreciate the effort of those who compiled the various quotations on the Refresher web site. Thought provoking ... inspiring ... a joy to browse through. And to conclude it with George Bernard Shaw's 'This is the true joy of life' is very fitting ... at least from my current vantage point. Thank you!
Norm Zimmer

Having used your site, may I congratulate you on its usefulness and thoroughness.
Ben Fisher

Your site is an important contribution to business, leaders and our world - thanks!
Dianne Collins

The CEO Refresher - Great stuff here! I really enjoyed its insights into management, leadership and risk taking. I found our "quote of the day" in the "cluetrain manifesto" article. Their tag line is "brain food for business" - every once and a while I think I need a little brain food, and I found some here.
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I was doing some research for an online course, and happened upon your site……I love what you have done, and the way you did it……….. I just can't believe you guys hail Canada as home, sorry about that……but then I guess all Canadians aren't that bad……you guys just proved it to me… keep up the sense of humor and good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dennis from Texas

Hello Dennis
Thank you for the accolades for The CEO Refresher. I sincerely appreciate the positive feedback and am very glad to be of service. Canada is a wonderful place. It's an outstanding country and you should visit. We are unfortunately blessed with many politicians that are assholes, but please be assured that 90% of Canadians always support our friends and allies south of the border. So buy our Alberta beef - it's the best. Try an Alberta prime rib blackened (with a little cajun spice) on the barbeque. I did tonight and it is superb!
Thanks
Rick Sidorowicz

Hello
I am an MBA student in South Africa and I want to complement you a very useful & practical informational site - and friendly web site - it is great aid to my studies.
Regards
Neels Pretorius

Thank you Neels
That makes it all worthwhile.
Rick

I frequently refer my clients to your site...and a few others that I feel will help enrich their business perspectives. You make my job easier--so much so, that I often joke with my customers that the best expert on my team is "The CEO Refresher." I think your site is one of the most practical sites for any student of marketing, advertising, entrepreneurism, and just plain smart business. There is so much value in what you offer! Keep up the good work!
Michelle Houser

We are trying to raise the level of “thinking strategically” in our business and regular communication of articles/information is a part of that development. In a web search I found your site and found that these articles ( The Strategic Thinking Mindset by Charles Albano, and The Concept of Strategy – Beyond Strategic Planning ) reinforced several of the messages we are trying to convey.
Thanks for your help.
Curtis L. Gray Senior, Vice President, Human Resources
BAE SYSTEMS North America

Thank you Curtis. For the benefit of viewers these articles are in Competitive Strategy in The CEO Refresher Archives.

For the past few years the CEO Refresher has been an outstanding resource for me and my team. I think I came across the site following a link from Jim Clemmer. I've been lucky enough to meet Jim once and have corresponded back and forth with Jim for a few years. I always have the CEO Refresher on my recommended links for people. The other bonus has been the kindness of many of the authors. Over the past few years I've received books, courses and numerous other articles simply by asking permission of authors to circulate their work at Stelco. Keep up the good work!
Cam Howey
Stelco Inc.

I just found a reference to your website today. You are providing a great service to managers, leaders and entrepreneurs everywhere. I will be following this bookmark often.
Thank you,
Wayne McVicker

I wanted to let you know that your publication has generated considerable traffic for us and that is truly appreciated. Of course, our challenge is to convert that traffic into business.
Crista Renner
Juice Inc. http://www.juicefactor.ca/

Thanks Crista. It's a pleasure featuring the work of such creative and interesting people. Hope the articles drive traffic your way. You do great work!
Rick

Thank you for your web site. This is my first time back in school after many years. My Associates Degree was earned in 1973. The Bachelor's degree I am pursuing is in Organizational Leadership. Our team will be presenting on leadership by creativity and motivation. I am pleased by the articles that could be obtained from your web site. Thank you,
Rita

Always very pleased to be of service.
Rick

On behalf of The CEO Refresher I would like to thank our contributors for their outstanding work and also thank our viewers for their continued interest and support. It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to be of service.