Looking >Forward and <?Backward
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Looking >Forward and <Backward

Welcome to this week's?MAD?newsletter - for C-level Executives who want to?Make?A?Difference - in themselves and their organizations.?As we start 2023, this issue features - #Predictions , #2023BigIdeas , #ReadingLists , and others to follow on LinkedIn this year.

In this Issue

  1. Forward and Backward
  2. 41 Big Ideas?for 2023
  3. Principles or Practices?
  4. Lead and Read
  5. Worth Following
  6. Econ Recon

Forward and Backward by Dr. Galloway

It?wouldn’t be New Year’s without predictions.?One person whose predictions are always worth reading is entrepreneur and NYU professor Scott Galloway .?Dr. Galloway shot to fame with his book “The Four” a few years back in which he dissected the success and power of a quartet of the world’s most important companies:?Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google.”?In recent years he’s added Tesla, Twitter and commentary on Artificial Intelligence, marketing, crypto and much more in his “No Mercy, No Malice” blog.

If you like following what’s going on with the hottest companies and a big picture view of the world,?check out his predictions regarding 2023 …and?look back at his predictions for 2020 . Galloway brings a level of rigor and style that you’ll appreciate and benefit from even if you don’t agree with his conclusions.

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41 Big Ideas for 2023

One person’s predictions can be interesting;?but polling a group of thought leaders may yield more and better looks ahead.?(It’s why Vistage works!)

To that end, “Every December, at LinkedIn editors ask our community of Top Voices and creators to share the Big Ideas they believe will define the year ahead. This year, as we face challenges along several fronts, we offer a selection of thoughts on where we go from here — at work, at home and everywhere in between.”

41 Big Ideas that will change our world in 2023 ?provides an executive summary in a few paragraphs of each of these?ideas and trends that may impact your decision making…if you are aware of them.?Highly recommended.?

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Practices or Principles?

It’s sad but true….our?January New Year’s Resolutions rarely survive into February. We often write off our failures to a lack of will power,?but?maybe it’s more about our?“why” and not?so much about our “will.” A quote from Harrington Emerson, an American efficiency engineer and business theorist, helps drives this point home:

“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few.The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

Think of principles as a computer’s “operating system” which makes the applications it supports effective….and useless without.?In a recent post from The Farnum Street Blog,” the publisher uses this analogy as he offers his personal set of principles (“whys”) as opposed to practices or methods (“how’s”) that he says help him live an effective life.

Spend a few minutes exploring his?“Principles for Living: An Operating System for Life” ?…..and then get busy focusing on your own!

Note:?The Farnum Street Blog ?is a must for the executive who knows that self-management is “job one.”

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Lead and Read (and how to read four of them in an hour)

The extent of our knowledge drives the options available to us and the important choices we make between them. To the extent that knowledge can be gained by reading, knowing what to read is critical.

Vistage members have access to a?“Lead and Read” network?where Members and Chairs recommend reading vetted reading options to each other. This past week, the ”Lead and Read Network” selected three lists of books for businesspeople that may help you choose.??As a New Year’s gift, here are those lists for our people who are not Vistage members.?May it help you select the books that will make a real difference for you and your team.

If you despair of even reading a fraction of these over the coming year, fear not!?There is a wonderful app,?Blinkist , that offers 15-minute summaries (text or audio) of the most popular business and other non-fiction books (over 5,500 in all). You can absorb the important parts of four books in an hour for?$8.34 per month (there’s a free trial). They also have an app?called?“Blinkist Business” ?to accelerate your team’s learning edge.???

Happy reading (and leading) in 2023!

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Worth Following

LinkedIn is?not just a networking tool, it is the source of some excellent curated information.?Here are two thought leaders that?you may wish to follow on LinkedIn for a consistent flow of interesting material.

The first is?Dr. Joerg Storm ?who is a futurist, speaker, and longtime executive at Mercedes Benz.?A good example in his?Red Flags on financial statements .

Another is?Josue (Josh) Valles ?who describes himself as a “Mad Content Scientist”?and is the founder of Curation Labs.?An example is his “Psychology of Selling (in 14 slides)”

Who do you follow? Please share.

Econ Recon

Who’s driving this thing?:??We all have different roles in the economy based on our particular jobs, industry or sector we work in and whether we are investors or managers (or both).??But the one thing we all have in common regardless of our role in the economy - we are all consumers.?As a recent ITR Economics blog post states,?when it comes to driving the economy, the consumer is “the person at the wheel.”

How healthy is the consumer?your business depends on (directly or indirectly)???Check out ITR’s brief post:??“Eyes on the Consumer: A Four-Pronged Assessment.”

High Frequency Data Tracker: Check out important year-over-year (2019 through 2022) changes in key economic metrics with?Dr. Brian Wesbury’s High Frequency Data Tracker ?for the week ending December 30, 2022.


I encourage sharing. Please re-share this post on social media. I also distribute via email and welcome new subscribers. Wishing you a productive week!


Sue Tinnish, PhD,?Vistage Chair, Facilitator, & Executive Coach

Find me easily at: 847.404.7325,?[email protected] , Twitter:?@STinnish, LinkedIn:??www.dhirubhai.net/in/suetinnish , Website:??https://vistage.com/chairs/sue.tinnish

Sal Burd

Founder of an online marketplace helping small business owners, C- Suite executives and lenders work together better

1 年

Happy New Year

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Sal Burd

Founder of an online marketplace helping small business owners, C- Suite executives and lenders work together better

1 年

well done Sue

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