L.J. Rittenhouse, CEO Rittenhouse Rankings, shares four expert tips to communicate with your team effectively. How Candor Determines Performance and Results Investors in a hotel meeting room wait to hear presentations from two utility CEOs, a widely-followed financial analyst and a respected portfolio manager. The CEOs start. Each one shows PowerPoint slides that illustrate their large companies’ “bright futures.” As …
How One Man Found the Big Picture…in the Small Details
Woodie Dixon on how to juggle details, find a greater objective, and carry out the ultimate vision. By Maggy Carlyle Editor’s Note: Woodie Dixon is the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs at the Pac-12 Conference. He will be featured in issue 12 of Forefront Magazine, out on July 11. We reached out to a former colleague …
The Emergence of the High-Tech Contact Center
21st century solutions give organizations the opportunity to make the customer service experience much more efficient. Every business has a contact center, whether they know it or not. From small, help-desk contact centers to large-scale, multisite, multimedia contact centers, businesses need contact center solutions that enable remote workers, integrate business processes, control costs, and ensure business continuity. The contact center …
Executive Insight: Helping Your Team Shape Up
Promoting fitness and wellness isn’t just good for your employees’ bodies; it’s good for business. Editor’s Note: We received a study from our friends at CareerBuilder stating that the majority of U.S. workers feel they are overweight. (You can read our write-up on the results of the study here.) In this Q&A segment, Chris Brennan, SVP and General Counsel at …
Editor’s Note – May/June 2014 Issue
The snow is gone, flowers are in bloom and baseball is back in action. This can only mean one thing: Spring is finally here. It’s been a long trek for most of us, having endured one of the worst winters in recent memory, but the seasons have indeed changed. Perhaps it’s the drastic change from the brutally cold and bleak …
Looking Back at Issue 10
Issue 10 was released on February 28 and we’re sharing some of our thoughts on this recent edition of Forefront. Preparation. That seemed to be the theme for this issue. As you can imagine, we start preparing for each issue of Forefront months in advance. Due to the polar vortex- many times we had to even prepare to go outside …
Founded on Friendship
An idea borne over beers and coffees, Foxy’s Frozen Yogurt—led by pals and now complementary business partners—has revolutionized the frozen treats market Editor’s Note: Navigating a friendship in a professional setting can be challenging. We spoke with Mikey Taylor and Angus Murray, friends and Co-Founders of Foxy’s Frozen Yogurt. Taylor and Murray elaborated on the ins and outs of their …
Editor’s Note – March/April 2014 Issue
It doesn’t matter if you live north, south, east or west. It’s been a long, hard winter. One of the longest, hardest winters in recent memory, in fact. Along with chapped skin, frostbitten fingers, slushy streets and salt-crusted sidewalks, the result has been an epidemic of seasonal affective disorder that’s left many of us feeling as dreary as we are …
New Year’s reSOLUTIONS: Put Time for You on Your Calendar
Harsco leader Verona Dorch plans to carve out more ‘me’ time in 2014, and hopes you will too By A. Verona Dorch During the past year, I have celebrated my one-year anniversary in my new role, watched our new CEO celebrate his one-year anniversary and experienced numerous changes on both the executive team and across our company with the sale …
Editor’s Note – Nov/Dec 2013
Not to imply that we put too much thought into these things, but what you see before you is our eighth issue. As in number eight. And if you don’t already know, eight is a very lucky number. According to astronomers in the Middle Ages, the night sky was filled with eight unmoving stars that symbolized perfection and impending planetary …
The Habits of Highly Successful HR Leaders – Part 1
What’s the difference between an HR practitioner and an HR leader? Our expert has identified 12 traits; here are two. Yesterday, human resources (HR) supported the business. Tomorrow, however, HR will drive it. In fact, a 2012 survey by HR consultancy KPMG found that 59 percent of senior executives believe HR will grow in strategic importance. Unfortunately, just 17 percent …
From The Editors – Sept/Oct 2013
Autumn. The time for harvest. While the arrival of Fall may cue the sound of football helmets clanking on Sunday afternoons and serrated knives carefully carving ghoulish faces into supernatural pumpkins, the season also perpetually brings with it something more meaningful: the promise of rewards to be reaped. For those of us in publishing, harvest usually doesn’t entail tilling a …
Forefront Partners with Executive Connection in Dallas
Forefront Magazine has partnered with Executive Connection, a Dallas based executive leadership group that shares many of the same values as Forefront. Their goal is to facilitate strategic relationship development, collaboration, and leadership advancement by connecting like-minded executives in the entire C-suite, to exchange knowledge and learn from each other. We are working together on bringing their valuable insight to …
From the Editors – March/April 2013
Hello again, readers — Spring is quickly approaching, and with that comes the fourth edition of Forefront. The new year brought new goals and challenges, and with the new season, we hope readers continue to find inspiration in the stories of the business professionals profiled within our pages. In this issue, we proudly feature eight professionals in wide-ranging lines of …
From the Editors – Jan/Feb 2013
Happy new year, readers! This is an important milestone for everyone, including Forefront. 2013 marks a year where all economic indicators should be improving—from unemployment numbers to property prices to GDP. The beginning of 2013 also marks our third issue of Forefront. After reading issues No. 2 and 3, it is our sincere hope you are enjoying the content, and …
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