CEO SUPER CUP

Many of us read the cliff notes on 5 Dysfunctions of Team by Patrick Lencioni. This episode with Dick provides you with a fast team process to implement Humble/Hungry/Smart process into your team model to promote self-upgrading for the team. Of course, permissions are required by the team member. Listen to the examples Dick shares highlighting the hiccups that can be resolved by implementing Humble/Hungry/Smart. Learn more about great team dynamics from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Employees are the voice of a company’s culture. Supporting employees and a business’ community rise to the top of the ‘ideal culture’ profile in ’22. Great leaders are not just posting a list of values on a poster in the hall, they are modeling the values publicly in and out of the building and driving an attractive culture that inspires folks to want to join the firm – not just once, but day after day. Learn more about instilling powerful culture defining actions from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

After hosting Monica Levin to speak about body language, I did a bit more discovery regarding a body of work called ‘non-verbal science’. Whether in person or via virtual meeting, how people sit, place their hands, and move their shoulders and head will reveal interesting thoughts about your guest. To Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Today’s podcast is centered around an amazing story about Sir Ernest Shackleton who has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. 3 key lessons are revealed by Sanger along with 1) the WHY it’s important to share stories with your team and 2) WHY empower your team to first take action to solve the problem THEY deem important. This always yields amazing solutions for the expedition or business overall. To Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Dick Sanger is an active member of 5 nonprofit organizations. From being active in the community to sitting on the board of organizations, Dick understands the importance of giving out loud. Children are the future of business and in this episode, Dick talks about Junior Achievement of Central Texas and how these young adults are creating businesses to give back. Listen and learn about how much JA is doing for our youth and the importance of not only getting involved, but also the value of sharing your cause with your network.

COVID created a stress in the supply chain for everyone. The impact is still affecting us a year later as we are coming out the other side. Dick found, through his partners and clients, 3 ways to pivot moving forward. One of the strategies Ford implemented in 2021! Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

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Dick Sanger is joined by Mathias Ihlenfeld, CEO of woom bikes USA to chat about his Vistage experience.

woom USA quickly established itself as a digitally native brand, developing direct-to-consumer expertise and serving its customers through a personal relationship with the brand. Due to the remarkable product, excellent service, and extensive word-of-mouth recommendations, in 2020, woom USA was recognized for the second year in a row by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the US, with a stunning three-year growth rate of 742%. woom has disrupted the kids' bike category in North America and is the largest and fastest-growing direct-to-consumer brand in the space.

Smart CEOs know that revenue earned is a great KPI, AND, each team should have their own measures to ensure the business is moving in the right direction. Business Intelligence is a sexy phrase, but not everyone is applying to the team level and able to adjust mid-year, quarter, month, or even daily to maximize potential opportunities and avoid pitfalls. To Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

CEOs are clear that company culture to tend to draw in key employees. What’s happened during covid is these key employees are changing their minds about the culture they are attracted to! It doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong, however, for your business to thrive – you need a strategy to weather the ‘great resignation’. HR and recruiting professionals are evaluating their next moves regularly. Special packages to support volunteerism, onsite pet programs, work-from-home programs, and more. Dick shares several examples of different companies creating new onboarding, mentoring, and transition programs. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Stepping into any new year inspires every CEO to reflect on the prior year and set new goals and directions for the coming months. Prior to declaring your new CEO vision, crafting the right questions to your leaders, your staff, your vendors, and customers will reveal opportunities you perhaps didn’t know existed. Sometimes adding a service or product to your solution solves a big problem for a key client. Occasionally, your clients may welcome your curiosity because they are stuck and have not yet landed on their new focus – on which you and your team could support a key breakthrough. Dick shares several examples of different companies applying questions internally, externally, and at home. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Dick Sanger is joined by Dewitt Peart, CEO of the Downtown Austin Alliance to chat about the challenges the organization is facing, upcoming projects, and how to apply peer to peer business advisory solutions and learnings to their non profit / public private partnerships.

We all experience business cultures daily. Your grocer, department store, and online vendors deliver an experience. Whether you feel accomplished, frustrated, or excited from the transaction is directly related to the culture of their business, leadership direction, and the values their clients experience. David Friedman, founder of CultureWise, confirmed the groundwork to Dick’s understanding of a high performing culture and how to create or uplevel and elevate the culture you wish to exhibit. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Dick has an amazing career journey which included many different high-level positions engaging with the military and Houston Space Center. Today’s discussion shares key points Lt. General Paul Funk shared to his Vistage CEO and team members to guide them to solve current business issues. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Dick shares candid impacts to his peer advisory group CEOs as a result of covid. Issues are impacting clients, partners, employees, product availability, and virtually every aspect of business. Being willing to evaluate challenges and reaching out to employees and customers will yield unexpected solutions which may very well slingshot the business ahead of where they were prior to covid. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Being present and seen in the community of your business and declaring your cause are more important today than ever. Keeping your head down at your desk (in the office or at home) is not going to allow your business to be seen as caring about the local and online conversations. This aspect of a business is non-negotiable. Dick shares different strategies he and his CEOs employed to tell their stories on and offline. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

2020 has required a change in the marketing game on so many levels. Dick’s $MM clients are lamenting about marketing challenges across the board. Selling more, selling better or even faster is not only not effective, but also is likely to kill your audience’s confidence. Focusing on supporting your clients, however, even highlighting their innovation, and their wins can be a game changer. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Faced with business challenges, as a CEO, you are always evaluating budgets and whether to launch or turn off various programs. Dick Sanger shares his experiences of unintended consequences from turning off programs at home and multiple in business. He also shares his tips/tricks of evaluating programs and a holistic view of the entire system prior, during, and following the retirement process. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

The ‘new normal’ impacts all of us. Dick Sanger realized within days that the CEOs in his peer advisory groups that took the time to a) create a clear purpose statement for their entire team and b) designed the opportunity to infuse the purpose into the company culture were the companies that were able to respond and pivot during covid. Dick shares the journey of two different businesses (software, consumer product) to reveal their experience as a result of the investment in a purpose driven culture. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Dick Sanger shares a real story of how a sage bush in his yard revealed a powerful business insight. 5 years of what you thought was ‘solid gardening practice’ exacerbated symptoms to darn near snuff out the prize sage. Relying on the idea ‘we’ve always done it this way’ doesn’t serve a business revealing dying symptoms or allow your multi generation workforce. Listening to Dick’s gardening and business examples of revealing hidden problems behind curious symptoms might just inspire solutions for you. This episode of the CEO SUPER CUP will provide great resolutions to get your teams back on the speedway. Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/