CEO SUPER CUP

Cultivating Ideal Team Players

Many of us read the cliff notes on 5 Dysfunctions of Team by Patrick Lencioni. This episode with Dick provides you with a fast team process to implement Humble/Hungry/Smart process into your team model to promote self-upgrading for the team. Of course, permissions are required by the team member. Listen to the examples Dick shares highlighting the hiccups that can be resolved by implementing Humble/Hungry/Smart. Learn more about great team dynamics from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO...

Fundamental Actions which Build Great Culture

Employees are the voice of a company’s culture. Supporting employees and a business’ community rise to the top of the ‘ideal culture’ profile in ’22. Great leaders are not just posting a list of values on a poster in the hall, they are modeling the values publicly in and out of the building and driving an attractive culture that inspires folks to want to join the firm – not just once, but day after day. Learn more about instilling powerful culture defining actions from Dick, the crowd favo...

Leveraging Non-Verbal Science to Reveal the Truth

After hosting Monica Levin to speak about body language, I did a bit more discovery regarding a body of work called ‘non-verbal science’. Whether in person or via virtual meeting, how people sit, place their hands, and move their shoulders and head will reveal interesting thoughts about your guest. To Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

How Great Leaders Handle Adversity

Today’s podcast is centered around an amazing story about Sir Ernest Shackleton who has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. 3 key lessons are revealed by Sanger along with 1) the WHY it’s important to share stories with your team and 2) WHY empower your team to first take action to solve the problem THEY deem important. This always yields amazing soluti...

How Do You Get People Interested In Your Business?

Dick Sanger is an active member of 5 nonprofit organizations. From being active in the community to sitting on the board of organizations, Dick understands the importance of giving out loud. Children are the future of business and in this episode, Dick talks about Junior Achievement of Central Texas and how these young adults are creating businesses to give back. Listen and learn about how much JA is doing for our youth and the importance of not only getting involved, but also the value of sh...

Actions Speak Louder Than Marketing

Are You Pivoting Like FORD?

COVID created a stress in the supply chain for everyone. The impact is still affecting us a year later as we are coming out the other side. Dick found, through his partners and clients, 3 ways to pivot moving forward. One of the strategies Ford implemented in 2021! Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Mathias Ihlenfeld Shares How Peer Advisory Group Supports Him.

woom bikes USA zooming through... Dick Sanger is joined by Mathias Ihlenfeld, CEO of woom bikes USA to chat about his Vistage experience. woom USA quickly established itself as a digitally native brand, developing direct-to-consumer expertise and serving its customers through a personal relationship with the brand. Due to the remarkable product, excellent service, and extensive word-of-mouth recommendations, in 2020, woom USA was recognized for the second year in a row by Inc. 5000 as one o...

Missing the Mark in Business Inspires Correction to Goals

Smart CEOs know that revenue earned is a great KPI, AND, each team should have their own measures to ensure the business is moving in the right direction. Business Intelligence is a sexy phrase, but not everyone is applying to the team level and able to adjust mid-year, quarter, month, or even daily to maximize potential opportunities and avoid pitfalls. To Learn more from Dick, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Attracting, Nourishing, and Keeping Great Talent During covid and Beyond

CEOs are clear that company culture to tend to draw in key employees. What’s happened during covid is these key employees are changing their minds about the culture they are attracted to! It doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong, however, for your business to thrive – you need a strategy to weather the ‘great resignation’. HR and recruiting professionals are evaluating their next moves regularly. Special packages to support volunteerism, onsite pet programs, work-from-home programs, a...

In this New Year, asking Insightful Questions Will Open Opportunity

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 hav...

Austin Downtown Alliance Applying Business Practices & Strategies for Success

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.

Putting on the Ritz High Performance Culture

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 exh...

Stellar CEO Business Advice from a Surprise Guest

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/

Implementing a Slingshot Philosophy During the Pandemic

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/

Why a CEO Must Declare Their Cause to Lift Up Their Business

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:/...

The Power of Pointing Your Video Marketing Engine to Support Your Clients

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/

Turning Programs Off in Your Business Might Produce Unintended Consequences

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/dicksa...

The Power of Inspiring Employees to Internalize Your Company’s Purpose

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 drive...

Sage Advice: Treat the Business Problem, Not the Symptom

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 soluti...

What Gets in the Way of Your Next Big Move?

Dick Sanger brilliantly highlights an example of something (i.e. the shed) that gets in the way of your company’s next big move. Whether you’re implementing a new operational system, or hiring/firing, or awaiting a product launch – is your ‘shed’ keeping you from delivering a project your business requires to get to the next level? As the CEO, you have the opportunity to observe the ‘shed’ scapegoats your departments and coach your leaders to ID and resolve the issue. This episode of the C...

CEO Communications, Story-Telling, and Inspiring Your Favored Constituents

The New Year inspires us to focus on 2020 Vision and Dick shares examples of effective communication on and offline to inspire everyone to move forward. Acknowledging employees, coordinating community service, and empowering the organization, partners, and clients to share their experience of the business yields great results when the business is celebrating authentic success. Learn more from Dick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Recognizing and Managing Stress in Yourself, Your Teams, and Your Business

Dick will give you some great info on how the brain responds to different levels of stress and how to first identify and secondly move decisions from the lower/reptilian brain to the higher/cognitive/ and more reasonable part of the brain. Some of the mechanics are truly based in our humanity and evolutionary history. Today, we can leverage the strategies Dick shares to get real sleep as well as maintain calm and production in the business during business growth. Learn more from Dick: htt...

The Power of Intentional Change for High Performance Teams

$M CEOs must always look forward and plan for intentional change within their business. Studied by luminaries, sometimes real-life experience is more actionable by others – especially being coached by those leaders who’ve walked through similar change experiences. When >50% of employees aren’t sure of what’s expected of them and their impact on the organization, it’s a call for the leadership team (led by the CEO) to stand up and lay out an effective plan for engagement and empowering cultu...

Leadership Team Turnaround to High Performance Success

A CEO faced with business failure first looks to the leadership team. Assessment is necessary – and – the CEO must also provide self-assessment transparently, clarity of direction, and a vision. Ideally, the team itself will collaboratively develop the high performing plan. This itself is the biggest challenge for a leader is allowing the team to plan, to fail, and to deliver. This episode of the CEO SUPER CUP will provide historical examples of turnarounds, lessons learned, and confiden...

Artful Questions Posed to Your Team Can Fuel Success!

Dick Sanger reflects on his powerhouse mentors throughout their career and how he was never told what to do. He was, instead, asked lots of questions. His role as a Vistage Chair today allows Dick to flex his expertise of inquiry. The different kinds of questions could include Clarifying, Adjoining, Funneling, & Elevating. Dick explains each type of question along with the mechanics of body language or the type of questions, and more. Dick has great ideas to share on the Art of the Quest...

Leaders Inspire Trust a Drip at a Time – and Wrong Action Loses Trust in Buckets

Dick Sanger, the crowd favorite of the CEO SUPER CUP, provides several examples of positive and negative actions that yielded shifts in the level of trust around a leader. Understand the importance of inclusion with the team to ensure transparency – leading to trust. And, being an authentic leader requires skills to manage a situation that didn’t quite go the way it was planned. This episode of the CEO SUPER CUP will provide great reminders and tips and tricks to build the level of trust a...

What Gets Measured Gets DONE.

Dick Sanger shares (2) scenarios where CEOs began to measure a new KPI (key performance indicator) and transformed their businesses. The first related to new competitors in their home geography and the second related to inventory. Both CEOs were able to put their teams in motion on the correct KPI, the correct goal, and on this episode of the CEO SUPER CUP, Dick will describe the problem and solutions. Learn more from Dick:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

CEO Freedom Lives in the Not to Do List

Barring the opportunity or desire to work 24x7, one of a leader’s biggest challenges is to eliminate or delegate activities. Dick Sanger on this episode of the CEO SUPER CUP will share relevant examples of current CEO challenges to create and stop doing items which inhibit them from focusing on moving their company forward. Dick also highlights the power of understanding your strengths, mapping against what the business needs, and table or train others to handle the items that are keeping ...

Evaluating Your Leadership Team for Success, Growth, and Culture Fit

As a CEO, how often are you evaluating your team for success? Dick Sanger on this episode of the CEO SUPER CUP will share ideas to inspire a CEO to ensure the leadership team is rowing together and in the right direction. Get Dick’s ideas for a fully functional team as well as thoughts to encourage redirection and the ability to pivot when a team member or an innovative project is off center. Learn more from Dick:https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

CEO Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions

CEOs who master regular feedback cultivate happy teams and are better positioned to make a change. Dick Sanger sees relevant kind words as a way to fill their team's emotional bank for success. Happy employees require accolades. Genuine, clear and regular feedback is the trick to pave the way for quarterly and yearly reviews with no surprises. Learn more from Dick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Promoting Women Leaders Will Provide You a Competitive Advantage

Leading in $MM, $B businesses, Dick Sanger has been a proponent of women as executive leaders throughout his career. Currently, Dick is actively promoting women in Vistage CEO, Key and Trusted Advisor Peer Advisory Groups. A believer of diversity in leadership, Sanger believes women in leadership roles are a secret weapon allowing the company to see around corners. Reach out on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Inspiring an Accountable Culture Eats Planning for Breakfast

Dick Sanger believes the way a CEO behaves paves the road for his employees behavior. Ensuring a CEO's self accountability will then inspire the leadership team to model the same. Typically challenges will throw thoughtful planning out the window; an accountable culture will fuel returning to the right next course. Dick will provide specific tips to coach team members to deliver well and on time and how to reset poor delivery. Reach out to Dick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dic...

Smart Delegation Saves You From Business Potholes

Dick Sanger, Vistage Chairman in Austin, TX, shares the natural symptomology which occurs when a CEO must delegate tasks. Dick recommends a CEO do a regular check on their activities and strive to 'do only that which only you can do'. Whether hiring, contracting, or technology, Dick shares scenarios of success around delegation. Connect with Dick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dicksanger/

Are You the Smartest Person in the Room?

Dick Sanger, a Vistage Chair in Austin, TX speaks about the challenges CEOs face when they are continually the smartest person in the room and how to challenge the team and/or make adjustments.