The Deal Flow on Eagle Ford – How Do I Get In?

Posted on 20 May 2012

“It is San Antonio’s time.” Within moments of each other, those words were uttered by Mario Hernandez and Judge Nelson Wolff at the Texas CEO Magazine Speaker Series Event in San Antonio. Hernandez is President of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation and Wolff is a former Mayor of San Antonio and now Bexar County [...]

A Guiding “Spirit”

Posted on 14 May 2012

SHELLY STEIN, CEO OF GLAZER’S DISTRIBUTORS, SERVES UP A NEW ERA OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT In his Addison office, Sheldon I. “Shelly” Stein, the CEO of Glazer’s Distributors, says his current company has to operate differently from those he’s been associated with in the past. “Under the law there are [...]

Transcending the Folly of Leadership Development Efforts

Posted on 25 March 2012

HOW “FRONT PORCH CONVERSATIONS” CAN TRANSFORM LEADERS AND AN ORGANIZATION  - By Robert H. Lengel, Ph.D. and Gary D. Larsen, Ph.D. Are the company’s leadership development efforts meeting expectations? Are they producing real and sustainable results for the company? What if these efforts are wasting time and money?  We recently worked with a major corporate [...]

An IPO (Almost) Through the Eyes of WhiteGlove Health CEO Bob Fabbio

Posted on 18 March 2012

EVEN DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION HEALTH CARE CAN’T OVERCOME WASHINGTON AND THE GREEKS “A disruptive innovation typically combines a simplifying technology with a novel business model in order to transform expensive and complicated products and services into affordable and conveniently accessible ones.” Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business Professor Using disruptive innovation and following Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen’s logic [...]

Head In The Cloud

Posted on 11 March 2012

LANHAM NAPIER, CEO OF RACKSPACE HOLDING, DISCUSSES HOW “THE CLOUD” IS INFLUENCING THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS Lanham Napier leads the way past clusters of desks, each desk overhung by a banner highlighting the interest of its occupier. Most of the banners trumpet colleges and universities. Some herald sports teams. A few highlight states or [...]

Recruiters: The State of Search

Posted on 25 February 2012

By Phil Resch – Executive Retained Search has traditionally been the preferred method CEOs use to find the talent they need to help run the organization. But the current economic downturn has caused companies to conserve cash and wait to see how the new health initiatives will shake out, leading to a slowdown in executive [...]

Hiring a Recruiter

Posted on 18 February 2012

RECRUITERS – IF AND WHEN TO USE – By John Casey CEOs have had good and bad experiences with retained and contingent recruiters and often wonder when they should use a recruiter and how to get the best value. Recruiters are best used when it is: a critical position, important to hire the best candidate, [...]

Dallas – A Special Attitude

Posted on 11 February 2012

By Mike Rawlings, Mayor – North Texas is the fastest growing economy in the U.S. We are still in a sluggish economy nationwide but the Dallas workforce saw the second largest improvement nationwide over the second half of the last decade. This did not happen by accident; it happened by emphasizing private/public partnerships, leveraging our [...]

Fort Worth – Building a Legacy of Job Creation Through Business Partnerships

Posted on 05 February 2012

By Betsy Price, Mayor – Years ago, when a farmer needed a new barn, he’d gather his neighbors together and turn it into a community project – a “barn-raising.” The premise was simple: Many hands make the work go faster. As important, it brought the community together – everyone had a stake in building something [...]

Texas CEOs Are Confident About The Coming Year

Posted on 28 January 2012

Vistage Survey Show Highest Quarterly Gain in CEO Confidence in Two Years –  Texas CEOs see both the economy and hiring improving in the coming year. Rafael Pastor, CEO of Vistage International, recently shared the results of the Q4, 2011 Vistage CEO Confidence Index at the Texas CEO Magazine Speaker Series event in Austin. Like [...]

Austin – A Story of Success

Posted on 28 January 2012

By Lee Leffingwell, Mayor If the topic is the economy, Austin has a good story to tell. We have the distinction of sitting on top of many “best of” lists. Kiplinger’s Best City for the Next Decade. Forbes’ Biggest Boom Town in the U.S. Fox Business’ Best City for Business. ABC News’ Best Place to [...]

Houston – Leading the Nation Out of the Recession

Posted on 22 January 2012

By Annise Parker, Mayor These are tough economic times. If you have a job, you are worried about losing it. Those who are out of work are facing tough competition as they try to find new employment. Knowing this, I have made it a priority to highlight job creation and implement new programs that can, [...]

Job Growth – Texas Leads the Way

Posted on 22 January 2012

TEXAS CREATED ONE OF EVERY FIVE JOBS IN THE NATION Of all the new jobs in the United States created between June, 2010 and June, 2011, 20 percent of them – one in every five – was created in Texas. The state’s economy is highlighted in “Best Performing Cities, 2011 – Where America’s Jobs Are [...]

The Human Side of Things

Posted on 15 January 2012

G&A PARTNERS’ CEO TONY GRIJALVA SPEAKS TO THE RISE OF PEOS AND JOB TRENDS IN TEXAS In spite of the economy, in spite of the recession, in spite of companies downsizing or right sizing, Tony Grijalva knows it’s good to be in the hiring business in Texas. Grijalva, the Chairman and CEO of G&A Partners, [...]

Keep Austin Booming

Posted on 04 December 2011

RECENTLY RELOCATED COMPANY CEOs SHARE WHY AUSTIN TOPPED THEIR LIST AND WHAT TEXAS CAN DO BETTER It’s no secret that Texas continues to do well in job creation, even during our slow emergence from the recession. And the standout city in Texas for luring jobs from elsewhere is, arguably, Austin. With its mix of an [...]

Growth, Speed & Talent

Posted on 04 December 2011

ELITE EXECUTIVES OF DALLAS’ CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DISCUSS THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDING IN 2012 AND BEYOND The commercial construction market dropped 8.5 percent in Texas between 2009 and 2010, according to Engineering News Record. Permits for single-family homes are down 14 percent in 2011 compared to last year. The construction industry is facing challenges not seen [...]

Say on Pay

Posted on 04 December 2011

THE ECONOMY AND POLITICAL CLIMATE ARE LIKELY TO CAST A HARSH LIGHT ON EXECUTIVE PAY DECISIONS By David Bixby Overall, 2011 proved a fairly positive proxy season for public companies holding their first Say on Pay shareholder advisory votes as part of new proxy requirements under The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act [...]

Agent of Change

Posted on 26 November 2011

CEO STEPHEN BROOKS ON WHY AND HOW HE REINVENTED GRAND HOMES For the first 20 years of Stephen Brooks’ tenure, Grand Homes was continually growing to the point of building 1,000 homes in 2003. Five years later the home building business in Dallas hit bottom. Along with the obvious economic pain, Grand Homes found itself [...]

CEO Perspectives on The Economy In 2012

Posted on 26 November 2011

Three CEOs shared their views on the 2012 economy on the campus of TCU in Ft. Worth in late October. The event was led by Dean Homer Erekson of TCU’s Neeley School of Business and Texas CEO Publisher, Pat Niekamp. Health Care Karen Kennedy CEO, Impel Management & Chief Administrative Officer, Medical Clinic of North [...]

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From the CMO

Crisis In Cyberspace

Posted on 08 April 2012

WILL YOUR COMPANY’S REPUTATION GET TWITTERED AWAY?   By Liz Alexander, Ph.D. In some industries, facing a crisis is an everyday risk of doing business, which is why we might have expected more from the CEOs of British Petroleum (BP), Carnival Corporation, and Toyota Motor Corporation with respect to crisis management. Yet gaffe-prone Tony Hayward [...]

From the CFO

Know Thy IT Self

Posted on 08 April 2012

WHAT FORWARD THINKING CEOS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MANAGING IT COSTS   By Raja Pabba and Rakesh Singh The difficulty in managing IT costs for large enterprises has increased in the past 15 to 20 years because of the complexity inherent in managing IT Systems, which includes proliferation of sourcing IT services from multiple vendors, [...]

Biz Dev

Where the Real Selling Occurs

Posted on 20 May 2012

UNDERSTANDING THE SALES PROCESS BEHIND YOUR CUSTOMER’S WALLS By Randy Meriwether As a business executive, the lack of closed business stays either at the top, or close to the top, of the most frustrating experiences in a day to day sales operation. It is especially maddening when it appears there are many opportunities that are [...]

People Matters

The Lazy CEO

Posted on 31 March 2012

THE ART OF SUPPRESSING THE NEED TO “FIX” EVERYTHING By Joel Trammell I’m lazy and I am not ashamed to admit it. I think it makes me a better CEO. How can someone who has built successful organizations from the ground up be lazy? Aren’t startups famous for their around the clock work hours and [...]

General Counsel

Ensure Clear Skies With Your Cloud Provider

Posted on 11 March 2012

5 THINGS TO CONSIDER BEFORE CHOOSING YOUR COMPANY’S CLOUD By Peter S. Vogel The CIO, or whomever is in charge of storing and accessing digital information may be saying it is time to use cloud computing. CEOs of both large and small companies who do not have deep technology experience may not really understand the [...]

Generation Integration

Don’t Hire Leaders – Grow Them

Posted on 22 January 2012

WHY INVESTING IN THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION NOW IS SMART LEADERSHIP By Sharon Birkman Fink It’s time for businesses and other organizations to stop trying to recruit leaders and instead to start building them. Companies should discover that the best leaders are invested in the organization through more than just stock options. They understand the culture [...]

Governance

Red Alert: Is Your Network Secure?

Posted on 22 April 2012

THREE CRITICAL SECURITY TRENDS EVERY CEO NEEDS TO KNOW By Theresa Schwab Recently a manufacturing company came to me wanting assistance with their network. Apparently, the company who sold the network equipment was only good at installation, but not as good with supporting the equipment. Installing security equipment without properly configuring it is like driving a [...]

Corporate Responsibility

Data Protection Laws

Posted on 15 April 2012

DON’T MESS WITH TEXANS (OR ANYONE ELSE, FOR THAT MATTER) By David J. Lineman One of the challenges to managing a business today is the growing list of regulations. With the dramatic rise in identity-theft and cybercrime in general, data protection laws have been popping up at the Federal level and in all 50 states. [...]

In Closing...

Internet 2.0: What’s Next In Computing

Posted on 29 April 2012

HOW CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS ARE CHANGING BUSINESS,COMMERCE AND THE ECONOMY By Jim Brazell Sociologist Marshall McLuhan once said, “Each major period in history takes its character from the medium of communication used most widely at the time.” The emerging communications medium of the 21st century is robotics. Rather than walking, talking robots as we usually imagine, [...]

Technology

The Invisible IT Hand

Posted on 25 March 2012

HOW SMALL BUSINESSES CAN GAIN A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE USING CLOUD COMPUTING By James Higginbotham Small businesses are using cloud computing to find new ways to compete with larger companies. The challenge is to understand what cloud computing is and how it can be used as a competitive advantage. What is Cloud Computing? At its core, [...]

Internal Memo

Public Knowledge

Posted on 15 April 2012

STRATEGIES TO HELP CEOS CREATE A FOCUSED AND COHESIVE COMPANY DURING AN IPO By Lois Melbourne Changes within any company – office relocation or a C-level change – create natural uncertainty among employers and employees alike. That’s a given. But a long-time private company that becomes public is filled with entirely new challenges and repercussions. [...]

Operations

Green Power: Myths & Realities

Posted on 11 December 2011

WHY CEOs NEED TO BE THINKING GREEN ENERGY NOW, NOT LATER By Mark  Kapner, PE and Virginia Palmer, Ph.D Mark Twain once said, “It’s not what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you DO KNOW for sure that just ain’t so.” This gem seems to apply to the conventional thinking about [...]

Mentoring

Engineering A Better Workforce

Posted on 29 May 2011

MAKING STEM FOR K-12 MORE ACCESSIBLE VIA MENTORSHIP AND CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT By Dr. James Truchard The National Academy of Engineering recently published the 14 Engineering Grand Challenges, authored by a select group of our country’s most esteemed scientific and engineering minds. The engineering grand challenges lay out the 14 most important and significant issues our world [...]

Higher Education

It Takes A Community (College)

Posted on 29 May 2011

THE INTEGRAL AND PRACTICAL ROLE TWO-YEAR COLLEGES PLAY IN HIGHER EDUCATION By Dr. Richard Carpenter If I told you that you had a choice of paying either $18,514 or $28,516 for a bachelor’s degree from a Texas public college or university and that you had a better chance of graduating with the lower priced option, [...]

Employee Development

Training Day

Posted on 19 June 2011

HOW TO LEVERAGE HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE NEW ECONOMY By Christine Reyes Within the next six months, top performers – in particular – will be polishing up their resumes and looking for work environments that will help them develop their skills and careers in exchange for increased productivity and engagement. During the economic downturn workers [...]

Executive Education

Analytics: Keys to the Data Kingdom

Posted on 29 April 2012

IDENTIFYING TALENT CAN TURN CAPTURED DATA INTO REALIZED OPPORTUNITIES By Michael J. Penney The McKinsey & Company study, “Big data: The next frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity,” reaches two conclusions business leaders will quickly realize. First, there are huge opportunities available for improving marketing in organizations with the use of data analytics; and second, [...]

Leadership

CEO Passion: Do You Feel The Heat?

Posted on 14 May 2012

THE SPARK TO GREAT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP By Carol Thompson I live in Austin, Texas, a city with more than its fair share of entrepreneurs. And while entrepreneurs are most often known as innovators, I think they share another important quality: PASSION. Some are passionate about creating a breakthrough product or service that solves [...]

Commentary

Daydream Believer

Posted on 11 February 2012

TURNING LIFE’S SETBACKS INTO TANGIBLE PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS A Commentary By Veronica Edwards I literally failed first grade because, according to my teacher, I wasted valuable classroom time daydreaming out the window, talked too much and was unable to color within the lines. My future career prospects at the age of seven were bleak. I did [...]

Professional Development

Simple Steps Toward an Engaged Workforce

Posted on 22 April 2012

KEEPING THE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT TANK FULL By Mark Frein Every decade seems to bring with it a new term for employee satisfaction. The term of the last 10 years is “engagement,” usually defined as an emotional commitment by an employee to put in extra effort. We don’t want employees to simply be satisfied – we [...]

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