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Conversation with transformative CEOs

11 January, 2013 11:00 AM EST [11:00] 01 hr

Special Webcast

Join us for January’s Book Discussion webcast, featuring Robert Reiss, founder and host of The CEO Show, a national, interview-format radio program syndicated to more than 600,000 listeners on AM/FM radio, and Jeffrey J. Fox, Founder of Fox and Company and bestselling author of How to Become CEO, as they discuss their new book, The Transformative CEO: Impact Lessons From Industry Game Changers. Providing leadership lessons from the CEOs of the world’s most successful companies, such as MTV International, UPS, and ING Direct, this book offers readers direct insights and strategies from top business executives who have transformed their companies to achieve spectacular success. The Transformative CEO provides future business managers a guideline for successful business management, identifying key traits and characteristics needed to become a transformative leader.

R Vidyasagar, Senior Fellow of Human Capital, The Conference Board, will moderate this important discussion for anyone interested in identifying the crucial strategies and tools used by some of the world’s greatest business legends to attain profitability and success.

Audience: Human Capital professionals charged with talent management, strategic workforce planning, workforce readiness, diversity & inclusion, strategic human resources, employee engagement, leadership development, or human capital analytics.

Speakers

Robert Reiss
Founder and Host
The CEO ShowRobert Reiss is founder and host of The CEO Show, nationally syndicated to more than 600,000 listeners on AM/FM radio. His company publishes The CEO Forum, a quarterly magazine whose subscription base is exclusively 10,000 CEOs. Reiss is a frequen…Full Bio

Jeffrey Fox
Founder
Fox and CompanyFor over 25 years, Jeffrey Fox has been helping clients grow revenues and increase gross margins. Jeffrey is founder of Fox and Company, a management consulting firm that shows clients how to dollarize their value proposition to overcome the price… Full Bio

R Vidyasagar (Moderator)
Senior Fellow, Human Capital
The Conference BoardR Vidyasagar, or Viddhi, as he is known in the professional circles, has over 25 years of varied professional experience covering the entire domain of Human Resources Management. Apart from the initial years with the manufacturing sector, he had s… Full Bio

Author Reiss has signing at Books on the Common

By The Ridgefield Press on November 26, 2012 in Business

Author Robert Reiss with local residents John Racy, Barbara Reiss and John McVeigh

Books on the Common recently hosted a book signing for Robert Reiss, a Ridgefield resident, co-author of McGraw-Hill’s new business book The Transformative CEO, released in June.

Mr. Reiss, who was recently featured on CNBC’s Squawk Box talking about the new leadership category of Transformative CEOs, provides this definition: “A transformative CEO creates new value that reinvigorates a company, reinvents an industry or reboots society.

“I believe by disseminating the wisdom and best practices of transformative CEOs, we can help executives and organizations achieve significantly greater success.”

Special guest Peter Cuneo and his wife, Maris, attended. Mr. Cuneo is one of the 44 CEOs featured in The Transformative CEO and has turned around seven companies, including Black & Decker, Remington and Marvel.

The event was catered and photographed by Deb Russo’s Ridgefield Staging.

Ridgefield baker Kristen McNamara of Just Desserts prepared handcrafted desserts, including homemade cookies that were actually a replica of the book.

Read the full article here.

Transformative CEOs Provide A Blueprint To Follow

By MICHAEL MINK, FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Just like top runners, great CEOs lap average performers. Jeffrey Fox, who co-wrote “The Transformative CEO” with Robert Reiss, points to Peter Cuneo, who took over Marvel Entertainment in 1999, led its stock on a rocket run and guided the firm toward its $4 billion pickup by Walt Disney (DIS) in 2009.

Lessons and tips from game-changing CEOs:

• Be fast and accurate. When Rick Goings took over as Tupperware Brands (TUP) president in 1992, he found a company hemorrhaging cash. He asked for a quick analysis so he could stop the bleeding.

“The whole of what we try to indoctrinate in our culture, from the Marine Corps, is the 70% solution,” Goings told IBD. “Once you have about 70% of the information, trust your instincts. Your instincts are based on your experience.”

Goings took over as Tupperware’s CEO in 1997 and still emphasizes that need for speed, with signs at Orlando, Fla., headquarters that say “Fast and Right.”

The plastic-container firm has responded with double-digit profit growth in 10 of the past 13 quarters.

• Acquire talent. Goings avoids following companies that swerve from what’s most important. “Too much focus has been on strategy, on techniques, financing, etc. It has not been on how to create people,” he said. “All a company is is a collection of people. Recruit the best ones, empower them, develop them, and that’s where you’ll get results in a company.”

• Go at it. Goings zeros in on right now. “Time is a scarce resource,” he said. “Identify and do the things that matter most, and let the other things go.”

• Be true. To Tupperware’s 2.7 million independent direct sellers, “we emphasize and teach authenticity,” Goings said, adding that authentic people have the trust to inspire sales teams and build retention.

• Innovate. It’s a crucial trait for transformative CEOs. One, says Fox, is Dan Amos, CEO of Aflac (AFL), who made the call that put his company on the national map: using the quirky duck in its TV ads. The campaign resulted in Aflac’s brand awareness rising from 11% to 93%.

• Make difficult calls. Leadership for transformative CEOs is not a popularity contest, Fox said: “Turning around a dysfunctional culture, rescuing a dying company, is not for the needy personality. Tough decisions will never be wildly popular.”

• Create a top culture. “The transformative CEO is obsessed with maintaining and protecting a winning one,” said Fox. “They hire to their culture and get rid of even superstars if they are malignant to it.”

Eddie Osterland’s POWER ENTERTAINING: Secrets to Building Lasting Relationships, Hosting Unforgettable Events, and Closing Big Deals from America’s 1st Master Sommelier will be published in September 2012.

As seen on 800ceoread.com:

Harry Kraemer’s FROM VALUES TO ACTION hits #4 on the Business Book Bestseller List for June 2012.

As seen on TheStreet.com:

“Jeffrey Fox, co-author of The Transformative CEO, says JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon remains a top-ranked CEO despite the recent hit to his reputation.”

The video can be found here.

As seen on cnbc.com:

“The greatest CEOs are transformative and I define transformative as a CEO who creates new value that reinvigorates the company, reinvents an industry or reboots society.”

-Robert Reiss, author of THE TRANSFORMATIVE CEO.

The video can be found here.

“If we are to create a global economy that works for the nine billion people forecast by midcentury, then for the sake of the global climate and for the survival of many other species we have no option but to turn today’s capitalism inside out and upside down.” -John Elkington, author of THE ZERONAUTS.

The full article can be found here.

As seen on bobmorris.biz:

The full book review by Bob Morris for TRANSFORMATIVE CEO by Jeffrey Fox and Robert Reiss can be foundhere.

Review for IGNITING THE FLAME by Jim Reisler

Reisler, Jim. Igniting the Flame: America’s First Olympic Team. Lyons: Globe
Pequot. Jun. 2012.

Today’s Olympics are a humongous international event costing billions of
dollars to produce so they can be watched worldwide by billions of people.
As described here by sportswriter Reisler (Babe Ruth Slept Here), the first
“modern” Olympics, held in 1896 Athens, were drastically smaller and
drastically different. For example, described as a “glorified pickup squad,”
the full U.S. Olympic team consisted of 14 athletes from only three
organizations (Princeton, Harvard, and the Boston Athletic Club). Also,
before the games got under way, the American public was barely aware that
the event was to be held. Once the U.S. athletes and their scholarly
entourage arrived in Greece, articles were sent back to American newspapers
describing the U.S. team’s success. The athletes won nine of the 12 track
and field events held. One of the best stories here is about American Robert
Garrett, who won the gold medal in the discus despite taking up the event
for the first time on the very day of the competition.

Verdict This fun and accessible read is recommended to all coming Olympics
watchers interested in putting today’s games in historical perspective. The
photographs, appendix of award winners, and notes will add to the reader’s
experience.—Todd Spires, Bradley Univ. Lib., Peoria, IL