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Strat4 - Strategic Solutions for Growing Companies
Monday Morning CEO
Week of January 3, 2011
Happy New Year!
"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."
- Robert P. Vanderpoel
 
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Greetings!
I want to help you start off the New Year right: with a resolution to improve your fitness and performance. I'm not talking about trimming your waistline or dropping the pounds you've possibly found during the Holidays. You most likely have a spouse, significant other or mother to preach those virtues. If not, your doctor will. These things are important as well.
I'm talking about improving the health and fitness of your company. What I am really talking about employing Deliberate Leadership to create fiscal fitness and support healthy growth in the coming year. The time to begin actively participating in the economic recovery is now.
I originally started writing this over the weekend - and realized there was far too much to include in Monday Morning CEO - so instead I've published the entire post on Wordpress. For the details and a list of things you can and should do, so I urge you to please visit my latest blog-post "Lead Your Company To Fiscally Fit for the New Year" at http://strat4vistage.wordpress.com/ The post is an outline of what you should be doing now with your organization to ready yourself for a prosperous New Year.
In my speaking engagements around the country, I talk about Deliberate Leadership as the intersection of Vision and Reality (there is more about that in the blog post). This week's Monday Morning CEO visits a vision of the future by George Friedman in his book "The Next 100 Years" and some balanced reality from Vistage expert resource and speaker, Herb Meyer and and update on the state of the economy from Brian Beaulieu and Brian Wesbury.
Finally, a great article that recently appeared in the Economist - and features one of my favorite speakers on TED.com, Barry Schwartz ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6XEQIsCoM)
In closing, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for allowing me into you inbox and your life. I also want to offer my sincerest wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Philip R. Liebman
Managing Director, Strat 4
Group Chair, Vistage International
PS - If you are a CEO considering becoming a Vistage member - or in any CEO peer group, you should consider being my guest at my Vistage CEO meeting on January 26, 2011 when I will have Mitch Goozé present his full morning workshop on "Effective Marketing - How to Get It or Tell if You Already Have It". I still have one opening for a new member of this group and will be launching a new CEO Board in February - and have begun to select members for that group. Please contact me right away to preserve your place on the 26th.
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For some balanced perspective on the world today, let me introduce one of Vistage's premier speakers, Herb Meyer, former Assistant Director of the CIA, who has spoken to hundreds of Vistage CEO groups on "What in the World is Going On" - and is a sought after industry key note speaker. Herb has a number of articles and videos on the "big picture" that you can find by clicking this link: 
