Recommended Audio

"Managing Your Evolution - Purpose and Process"
"Growth Strategist" host Aldonna Ambler interviews Cheryl Beth Kuchler for a thoughtful discussion about how CEO's can grow their businesses using a combination of Western and Eastern business practices.

CEO Think Tank "Un-Marketing" event "Leadership from the Heart"
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Listen in on a CEO Think Tank "Un-Marketing" event "Leadership from the Heart" with Alan Burkhard, Founder and former CEO of Placers, a temporary staffing firm. Alan started Placers in the 1970's, grew it to $90 Million and sold it in the mid-1990's to pursue other business interests including implementing his brand of leadership, Outside-In®, in businesses as diverse as a restaurant to a trash company.

Recommended Bibliographies

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't, Jim Collins, 2001.

Anything by the Gallup Organization but especially:

First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman, 1999.

Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., 2001.

How to Find Your Mission In Life, Richard Nelson Bolles, 2005.

Never Eat Alone and Other Secrets of Success, One Relationship at a Time, Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz, 2005.

Anything by Patrick Lencioni by especially:

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni, 1998.

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Excutive, Patrick Lencioni, 2000.

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni, 2004.

Purple Cow: Transform your Business by Being Remarkable, Seth Godin, 2003.

The Goal, Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox.

Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time, Susan Scott, 2000.

You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay, 1984, 1987.

Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing, Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D. Ph.D., 1998.

Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential, Carolyn Myss

Numerology and the Divine Triangle, Faith Javane, 1979.

The Great Game of Business, Jack Stack, Bo Burlingham, 1994.

Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Gene Siciliano, 2003.

Selling The Invisible, Harry Beckwith, 1997, Warner Books

The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell, 2002, Back Bay Books

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of your Growing Firm, Verne Harnish, 2002

Recommended Websites

For the latest on Voice Over IP checking out…
www.altevatel.com/blog

For Feng Shui and Energy Consultation:
www.reinventawareness.com

For small business advisory services
www.sba.gov

To get information on target market size
www.census.gov

For some great articles on small business:
www.inc.com

For good management advice:
www.hbr.org

For retreats and to soothe your spirit:
www.fhop.org
www.findthedevine.com
www.geraniumfarm.org

For small business information:
www.247advisor.com

For information on productivity and time management, check out Neen James, a CEO Think Tank speaker, at www.neenjames.com.

For information on certifiying your woman-owned business, click on the following link www.wbenc.org.

For practical guidance for budding entrepreneurs, check out the Laurence A. Baiada Center for Entrepreneurship in Technology at Drexel University. Their website can be found at www.lebow.drexel.edu/baiadacenter.

 

 
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"Creating the Awesome Experience - for your Customers, Your Prospects and Your Company" on Tuesday, March 9th from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Join us for our Fourth Annual Growth Strategies Breakfast, with Inc 500 Entrepreneur, Author and Speaker, Kevin Daum.  In today's business world great is not good enough. If you want to attract and retain customers you have to stand out by "Creating the Awesome Experience - for your Customers, Your Prospects and Your Company".
To register click here.

"Dining with the CEO"
Join us Tuesday, June 8th for our next "Dining with the CEO" Dinner, sponsored by the law offices of Margaret McCausland. The featured speaker will be Stephen Spinelli, the President of Philadelphia University, whose roots lie in the world of entrepreneurship.

CEO Think Tank: The Un-Newsletter (HTML)
Winter 2009

Announcing Business Improvement, LLC.
We’d like to formally announce the launch of our advisory arm, Business Improvement, LLC. Co-founded by Cheryl Beth Kuchler and Doug Diamond to serve the diverse needs of small business owners and emerging enterprises in the greater Philadelphia area, Business Improvement helps CEOs, executives and management teams implement a proprietary suite of best practices that both supports growth and increases profitability. For more information on our full suite of offerings, check out our website at www.bizimprovement.com.

CEO Think Tank’s® Growth Strategies Summit Video with Aldonna Ambler
If you didn’t get a chance to come to our Breakfast Summit in March, check out the video, courtesy of Rob Gilfillan, Gary Miller and their team at Cenero.  Aldonna Ambler, aka “The Growth Strategist” shares her perspective on “Resilient Growth Despite the Odds”.  Check it out at http://vbrick.powerhost.powerstream.net/003/02520/CEO_Think Tank II.wmv

 
     
   
 

We'd like to welcome our newest members and clients:

Chad Parnis, Partner in 4TelecomHelp, Inc.

Ted LeBow, Principal, JRI Consulting, LLC

 
     
   
     
   
     
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