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Doug Sundheim

New York
As seen in: Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Substack, Flipboard, Wirtualna Polska, NewsBreak, Forbes Argentina, Forbes Ecuador, Forbes Uruguay
Advisor to CEOs, senior leaders, and teams. Author of TAKING SMART RISKS. HBR and Forbes contributor.
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What The Best CEOs Do Better Than The Rest

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By Doug Sundheim
| Forbes Verified
Over 25 years working with CEOs I’ve found a few things distinguish the best from the rest. These aren’t fads or fancy frameworks, but rather daily spadework that cultivates a culture of collaborative excellence. There’s no formulaic way to strengthen these behaviors and no CEO is great at them out of the gates. These behaviors require experimentation, practice, and humility.
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7 Reasons Executive Offsites Flounder And Fail

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By Doug Sundheim
| Forbes Verified
In our collective 50 years working with leaders, we’ve designed and facilitated executive team offsites for more than 100 organizations, across almost every industry, from high-growth privately held companies to large public ones. In that time, we’ve learned a great deal about what does and doesn’t work. The biggest lesson we've learned is that there's no formulaic way to run a successful executive team offsite.
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How Boards And CEOs Get The Best From Each Other

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By Doug Sundheim
| Forbes Verified
Boards at their best elevate a company’s performance providing guidance and guardrails to help management succeed. CEOs at their best leverage the board’s expertise and perspective to improve decision making and strengthen execution. Of course, getting the best from either side, given the inevitable personalities, power, and politics at play, is an artform. Inarguably, the first and most important step is hiring the right CEO. When a board gets that wrong, a lot of other things go wrong.
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