Secrets Of Executive Rockstars

In order to bring you real insights from ‘Executive Rockstars’ who achieve continued and frankly amazing levels of success, I’m publishing a few more of my recent research interviews which form the basis of a new article to be published in the national press in the next couple of months.

It’s so refreshing to hear from these kinds of guys first hand, that I want to share just a few of these recordings with you.

Today, we meet Brad Stroh who left his job in Venture Capital to create his own company in 2002 with co-founder Andrew Housser.

‘The Freedom Financial Network’ – which includes Bills.com – clocked up an impressive $43.5 million in revenues in 2007, employs 420 engaged employees in three offices, holds the No. 257 spot on the Inc. 500 list for 2008, and was ranked as the No. 3 fastest-growing company in America on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Hot 100 list for 2008 

So what are Brad’s Executive Rockstar secrets? How does he structure his time? How does he handle overload? What is his key career advice? (more…)

Last week I managed to secure an interview with the amazing Tom Searcy. Few people have taken small companies and created the explosive growth that Tom has. Even fewer have done it twice… but FOUR times!? Four companies, four successes, four IPO’s. Taking his companies from $15 million to $150 million in short order is a Rockstar talent, and Tom has it! He graciously agreed to share some of his secrets in an interview for a piece I’m writing for a national newspaper. This is a great interview! (more…)

Perhaps you, like me, find the idea of being famous hard to stomach…but there’s no doubt that being slightly famous can help your career and business succeed - if you do it in the right way. So I’m not talking about Paris Hilton or Rafael Nadal famous, I’m talking about Lars Hilse famous.

Who is Lars Hilse?

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Today I’m going to introduce you to a technique that will enable you to take control of meetings, influence strategic direction and give you a real edge whenever complex questions need to be asked and answered.

There are few techniques that $5,000 a day strategy consultants rely on time and time again. This is one of them.

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I’ve had a number of people get back to me and say that while they downloaded ‘The BIG Plan’ – our killer career strategy modelled on the high flyers we’ve worked with over the last 15 years – they haven’t had time to read it yet.

Well, I have some good news for those guys… because I recorded a recent webinar presentation I gave to some consulting companies and I’m pleased to be able to give you that video now.

So you ’stress-monkeys’ out there, who fool yourselves into believing that multitasking really works, can now do something else, as you keep one eye on this video, and finally find out what all the fuss is really about! (more…)

With the crisis in the stock market dragging on, I think that everyone has been keeping an eye on share prices this week… trying to work out how the events that are impacting the banking sector are going to ripple out through the real economy to our companies.

But there is another reason why the stock market interests me. The pricing of shares truly reflects the level of confidence that investors have that a company is going to do well in the future.

Just like you, companies have to own a niche, a vision for the future that investors can buy into, and a reputation for doing something well, based on solid historical results.

So the question shouldn’t be ‘How is the stock market doing?’, but ‘How is your own stock doing?’ - your personal equity, your perceived value, the confidence that your boss, your colleagues, and your customers have that you are going to produce spectacular results from them.

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It’s not often that I’m speechless, but a few months ago I was, when I got a call out of the blue: could I come and meet a group-level Vodafone executive on Friday, in 2 days time, to talk about doing a workshop and coaching starting the following Wednesday. Well, OK - although I was a little bit confused about where this had come from - I hadn’t been selling anything to Vodafone, and I had no idea how this had happened!

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