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This year’s VACEOs Annual Retreat program was chock full of outstanding speakers. After we were inspired by Rita Gunther McGrath’s “MarketBusting” session, we didn’t miss a beat and kept the energy flowing straight through lunch, where we asked Matt Blumberg,…

  It’s not every day you get to hear one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation speak, but that’s exactly how we began our 2014 Annual Retreat. If you missed the event this year, you missed an…

The statement above is attributed to business guru Peter Drucker.  I don’t think Drucker wanted to diminish the importance of strategy, but instead wanted to dramatically illuminate how little focus most managers pay to corporate culture. There are some firms…

For the fifth quarter in a row, Robins School of Business –Virginia Council of CEOs survey finds staffing and economic uncertainty concerns to be the most significant business issues among Central Virginia executives.  (Read Richmond Times Dispatch coverage)   Each quarter…

  “It happened kind of naturally,” says Randy Sklar, when asked if there was one pivotal moment when his father handed him the reins to the family business. “I remember it was around 2001, when the economy started to go…