Advice for CEOs

The beginning of summer is a time when business leaders like you, whose daily lives involve juggling priorities and crises, might consider taking time to step back to refresh your perspective on the challenges your company faces. One way to shake up your approach is to commit to a program of reading. There are thousands of business books that claim to provide you advice. To help you get started, here are seven books that can give you new insights on where to take your company.

The partners of the Newport Board Group have found that emerging growth companies who are deciding whether or not to outsource manufacturing operations to China, have many pros and cons to weigh. As expert business advisors, Newport Board Group offers companies important information to consider before making the final decision.

In the first part of this article, I discussed why creating a culture of leadership is critical for a company looking to scale their business. Coaching, mentoring and teaching are the development activities that help employees translate strategy into action. Empowered teams understand how their role contributes to the company’s competitive advantage and success in the marketplace. They are a great source of leverage to drive growth in profits faster than growth in revenue. Despite what “process engineering” and IT consultants will typically tell you, most process glitches and production bottlenecks are individual choke points - not system errors or the result of inadequate IT. Scale is not a production issue, a technology issue, or a money issue. It is a leadership issue.