Subscribe to The Impact Multiplier CEO Podcast Watch onYouTube Listen onApple Podcasts Listen onSpotify Listen onOther Apps As successful CEOs and entrepreneurs, we often find ourselves wondering how we can become more impactful leaders. We’ve achieved significant success, but we know there’s more potential to unlock. Today I’m going to explore two key approaches that

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“I just want you to know those two days changed my life. And my business.”I received several messages like this from CEOs recently. In this article I’d like to share their “aha moments” and how you can apply those insights into your own leadership. First, some context: A few weeks back, I ran a retreat in

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When faced with the decision to pursue personal growth and development, as a CEO, you wield immense influence over the experiences and prospects of your employees. This piece delves into the profound effects – both beneficial and detrimental – of the choice to engage in coaching. “It’s been a challenging year, and the forecast looks uncertain,”

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Let me outline my master plan for helping already extraordinary leaders with their “moonshots”. As you may know, I’m on a mission to help the world’s leading CEOs and entrepreneurs multiply their impact and legacy way beyond what they believe is possible. This is about taking your success to a level that might seem unimaginable right

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As a CEO or entrepreneur, you may often find yourself ensnared in a labyrinth of complexity. Managing various stakeholders, juggling an array of projects, seizing opportunities, resolving issues – it feels like being drawn and quartered. However, I propose that the real game-changers often reside in the shadows of the unexplored, the elements that don’t

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In June 2023, my Rivendell group of world-class CEOs and entrepreneurs reconvened in beautiful Chantilly, just north of Paris, for a CEO retreat that mixes deep personal/leadership development and strategic/exponential thinking. It’s a big investment for these leaders. I mean: two full days out of their business… just to swan around a luxury hotel and its

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You know you want to pursue more than financial goals when…There comes a point in your career when you realise financial success alone isn’t going to satisfy. As an entrepreneur or CEO, this can create a dilemma: you’re at the top of the organisation and now you realise you want to be playing a different game! In

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There’s a battle being fought in corner offices worldwide, an unseen enemy taking its toll on CEOs everywhere. It’s the crippling sense of isolation – the loneliness that comes with leadership. But why accept this as an occupational hazard when you can, in fact, turn the tide? Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, once tweeted:

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Exponential leadership is my obsession. In fact, I’m on a mission to help the world’s top leaders create and seize breakthrough opportunities that transform themselves, their businesses and, ultimately, change the world. This shift from incremental to exponential is why I wrote Making TIME For Strategy. And it’s why I was delighted to receive an advance copy of

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In Season 9 of the Impact Multiplier CEO Podcast, which we entitled “Mission-driven CEOs”, I interviewed a variety of impressive Chief Executives about their sense of mission:What’s the impact they want to make beyond just the financials — in terms of the company mission and their personal leadership legacy?How do they put that into practice on a daily

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I spent last week with our Rivendell CEO Mastermind group in the beautiful town of Chantilly, just outside of Paris. This is the community that I run for high-level chief execs, each of who is an extraordinary leader who’s up to exciting things in the world. We were in an amazing hotel right next to the stunning Chateau,

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Taking over ultimate responsibility for a business as Chief Executive Officer is a big challenge, especially if you’ve never done it before. The CEO learning curve is going to be steep. So instead of learning everything the hard way, wouldn’t it be great if you could take some short cuts? Imagine that, instead having to find out

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The CEO role is demanding and often exhausting. There are many stakeholders demanding your attention, pressures are high, you often feel isolated, and the available workload far exceeds any individual’s ability to deliver. The risk, then, is that you become subject to tunnel vision – focused on one or two pressing topics based on “who’s shouting

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“I’m an excellent functional/operational leader, but in the CEO role I need to become a strategic/transformational leader.” This is the kind of comment I often hear from clients who have recently taken on the CEO role, and they’re right. The CEO role is a move out of the comfort zone of functional leadership or business

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When you’re at the top of your organisation, who supports and challenges you?Who’s your role model and inspiration?Who are the people who have your back?Who’s your tribe where you can relax amongst peers? The difficulties of finding CEO communityAs you rise through an organisation and assume increasing responsibilities, it can be harder to find peers who

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As CEO, what decisions are truly yours to take, and which decisions should you be empowering other people to make? This is a key question for any CEO or senior leader to answer, and it’s a recurring topic of discussion amongst my CEO clientele. Failing to get clarity on this will result in disempowerment for your

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You can glean quite a bit of valuable information by listening to podcasts today. There are over a million that span a broad range of topics and interests, some of which contain advice for busy executives offered by experts in their fields. But the concept of listening to experts, and generally other people, is not

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