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VISTAGE TUCSON CEO’S PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO SAN MIGUEL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

At the May 18 ceremony for graduating seniors, San Miguel High School announced that two students would receive scholarships provided by 2 Tucson based Vistage International CEO Peer Advisory Groups. The scholarships were awarded to Brittany Hart and Gary Allen … Continue reading

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Are You Taking Advantage of LinkedIn’s Full Capabilities?

According to Jeff Korhan at www.jeffhorhan.com, there are 7 secrets to getting more for your time invested at LinkedIn. Among them are: Use appropriate keywords in your heading and title. Be diligent about updating your connections Add video to your … Continue reading

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Could You Use an Efficient Way to Manage Email?

“Here’s my problem with email,” Jane*, a lawyer friend of mine told me recently, “I open Outlook expecting to quickly check my email, but then I read an email with a link in it, I follow the link, and then … Continue reading

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What Do Lottery Tickets and Change Management Have in Common?

In this Harvard Business Review article, a famous experiment demonstrated that when participants who had chosen their own lottery numbers were offered an opportunity to sell the ticket back, they typically wanted five times the price asked by those who … Continue reading

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Try Before You Buy

No, I’m not talking about hiking shoes or test driving a new car. I’m talking about test driving a prospective employee–and not the way most of us think. I’m talking about an idea I first heard when Brad Remillard of … Continue reading

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How Do You Spot the Future?

This month’s issue of Wired Magazine offers seven suggestions. Look for Cross Pollinators Surf the Exponentials Favor the Liberators Give Points for Audacity Bank on Openness Demand Deep Design Spend Time with Time Wasters Read the  full article here.

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B2B Display Advertising: Should You Chose LinkedIn or ???

By Jessica Forrester at Hanover Research There are many ways to use LinkedIn as a marketer and many tools available. In this post we will focus on the use of display advertising on LinkedIn, which has shown particular promise as a … Continue reading

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Why Your Business Needs A Peer-Advisory Group

Peer-advisory groups discuss some of the tough issues that your business faces every day, such as investments, uncertainties, moral conflicts and accountability. On this week’s episode of The CEO TV Show, Rafael Pastor, CEO of Vistage International, discusses peer-advisory groups and … Continue reading

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Build Rapport with Challenging Customers or Employees

This week our two Tucson Vistage CEO groups hosted author, speaker and trainer Abe Wagner speaking on Increasing Motivation and Productivity. Wagner’s presentation is based on a foundation of Transactional Analysis and Neurolinguistic Programming. In 3 hours he presented and … Continue reading

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Time Span and the End of the Story

About 18 months ago, Vistage speaker Tom Foster spoke to my Tucson Chief Executive Group about a concept called Timespan. It is based on the work of Elliot Jacques (pronounced Jakes), a professor at George Washington University. To parphrase my … Continue reading

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