Ted Santos Talks on Breaking Barriers
What’s Your Breakthrough?
If It’s Not Maximizing Shareholder Value, What Is the CEO’s First Priority?
In recent years, Apple Inc. was announced the most valuable stock to ever be traded, reaching a peak market cap over $950 billion. Since the departure of founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, company shares have continued to grow. From debut through the present, Apple has been a driving force outside its original core competencies and […]
What Do You Want?
What do you want? Is a simple question. It can be applied to your career, marriage, friendships, recreation and life in general. While simple, many of the answers people give may not be what they want. The answers may be more of a sign of the times. If we go back 150 years, in the […]
How Important Is Alignment?
Whether your company has 10 or 10,000 people, everyone needs to be aligned. It does not mean absolute agreement. It means “we” are aligned on how to move the company, department or team forward. The first alignment is to what the organization does. Do we make tires, cars or shoes? Once we know the product […]
3 Things CEOs Should Know Before Changing Corporate Culture
There is a common belief amongst most corporate executives: “changing corporate culture is one of the most difficult things to do.” Perhaps it’s so difficult because it involves human beings. People are not as simple as changing the oil in your car or the software in your computer. While transforming culture may appear analogous to […]
The Road to High Performance
“If you pay in peanuts, you get monkeys.” – Anonymous In a high performing culture, which comes first – money or performance? Doling out a salary of peanuts to your employees may very well turn them into monkeys. At the same time, you don’t want to overpay them either. Before you get caught up in […]
4 Things CEOs Should Never Do
There are many books written by people who have a theoretical understanding of leadership. They write about characteristics and ideologies that sound like common sense. Yet, putting those abstract ideas into practice is almost never as easy as it sounds. After decades of leading organizations and advising CEOs, I have seen leaders struggle to produce […]
Here’s Why Some People Will Never Be Emotionally Resilient
Emotions have nothing to do with emotional resilience. What’s called emotional resilience has everything to do with the conversations you have with yourself. Before there is an emotion, there is a thought. That thought dictates whether or not you have an emotion and what it will be. Therefore, it is the thoughts you have that […]
How Well Do You Lead Your Direct Reports?
If you’re the CEO, your direct reports are critical to the success of the company. In fact, some may say direct reports are smarter than the CEO. Yet, they can be the most under utilized resource the CEO has. This happens more so if the CEO is very smart. While being smart has its benefits, […]