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/