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Jane Toombs - Executive Director of the CEO Council

Jane Toombs is the Executive Director of the Tampa Bay CEO Council. The CEO Council is group of over 150 Executives that run some of the most important companies within the Tampa Bay region. In this cast, Jane shares with us:

• The commonalities of CEO’s
• Common Executive challenges
• Leaders amongst leaders
• How CEO’s invest their time
• Leadership traits that she admires
• Why Tampa is a great place to do business

To learn more about the CEO Council visit them @ www.ceotampa.com

 

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CEO of Infinity Business Systems

In this interview, Terry Hedden shares lessons learned on his personal path towards Excellence. Listen as he shares:

• His definition of Excellence
• People who have influenced his view on Excellence
• Best advice he has received
• His view on what widely known company best embodies this ideal
• With the speed of business today - how do we make time to do things right!

 

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Vital Few Objectives

In this podcast, Jeff and Sean discuss the importance of focusing your company on the obtainment of your Vital Few Objectives (VFO’s). Their discussion points are:

Listen in…and learn how you can start narrowing your focus on what is most important to your businesses long-term success.

 

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Scott Shane of Case Western recently published The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By. In the book, he bursts many of the bubbles of entrepreneurship in America. Says he, “People start businesses based on the myths we tell ourselves about entrepreneurship and then are hurt when confronted by reality. Investors believe these myths and invest money and they’re disappointed when they don’t hold true. Policy makers make policy based on these myths and then wonder why the economy isn’t growing with all these entrepreneurs now in it.” If you think you already really know the scoop about entrepreneurship, try taking his test. If you score less than 80%, maybe you should buy the book. I scored an embarrassing 35%.

Watch this five minute video documenting Sun State International TrucksIn this video, Oscar Horton, President of Sun State International Trucks, talks about his company and how the Six Disciplines Program has impacted his business.  http://www.sixdisciplines.com/media/player.html?video=5