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The CEO Project Podcast

Want to build a great business? The CEO Project Podcast and host Jim Schleckser brings proven tools and techniques to scale your business. Each episode dives deep into a critical business topic for CEOs of mid to large-sized firms.

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34:03

Building a Growth Machine

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2023/01/08

At The CEO Project we work with CEOs of a variety of sizes on their most difficult issues, but today we are focused on one that everyone is concerned about - building a predictable growth engine into your business. The first thing to think about is a grid that was developed by Bain Consulting. Customers are on one axis and products on the other new, new, and old for each one. Existing product, existing customer, which is the cheapest and most reliable way of delivering revenue into your business

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38:33

Leading Leaders in Multi Unit Businesses

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2023/01/01

In this Episode… Jim Schlecker and Sam Watson, discuss the complexity of the multinational business and managing multiple presidents. Sam shares his story. Sam’s headquarters is here in the US but is spread around about 40 different countries. They have meaningful, 50 plus headcount in probably 10 or so countries around the world. Their geographic spread both in terms of customers as well as manufacturing and employees and quite vast. In terms of the nature of the products that they are selling -

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28:35

Client Retention

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/12/26

We all know the math that the cost to retain a client is 20% of the cost to acquire a client. From a sales and marketing point of view, if you can retain the clients that you bring on board, you're way ahead of the game because you don't want to have to go out and spend literally five times as much money to go acquire new ones. It is one thing to get them, but you need to keep them. Keeping them is what's interesting for a good recurring revenue business. This Podcast will talk through the elements

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39:55

The Great Reassessment

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/12/18

Today we are speaking with a renowned thinker about engagement and management and strategy and how you bring your whole team along on the journey in an engaging way. What is Reassessment? People are reassessing where they want to be, what they want to do, who they want to do it for, and who they want to do it with. People want to work, but they don't want to work where they feel they have to put up with things that inhibit or constrain what they have to offer. – 66% of people do not feel valued in

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57:52

Inflationary Economics

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/12/11

Box out, and make room for the strategic moves needed to stay profitable in an inflationary environment. Today we're going to talk about dealing with unpredictable markets and specifically inflationary markets. Specifically, we are going to talk about two options, do nothing, or do something, and then what can you do. If you do nothing about this environment, you are assuming it's transitory, it's going to pass, no big deal. But both material costs as well as labor costs going up. And if you're not

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53:44

Fair Compensation

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/12/04

Jim Schleckser, The CEO Project, and Kim Conklin, KC Consulting, debate the merits of compensation and incentive plans. Listen to this Podcast for entertaining bantering between Jim and Kim as they navigate this extremely important and relevant topic – fair compensation. What does Fair Compensation mean? It means when employees look internally, other people that do more or less the job I do are paid more or less what I'm paid. And when I look outside, people that do more or less what I do make more

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32:26

Accountability

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/11/27

Today Jim Schleckser talks on a topic that we see a lot when we're dealing with CEOs – accountability. What is accountability? The word is literally the definition of what accountability is, which is an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or account for one's actions. In other words, transparently accept and explain what I've been doing and the outcome I got. When somebody says, I see a problem, I own a problem, I'm going to solve a problem, that's accountability, particularly when

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57:59

Middle Managers with Dave Fechtman

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/11/20

We have talked before about the criticality of management, as we talk about business model processes and leadership or talent, everybody's happy to spend on their executive team and get these A players. Everybody's happy to go hire people that are sort of billable, and customer-facing, but once you cross about a hundred people, the distance between those two spreads enough that you must have people in the middle. And as entrepreneurs, it is not an appealing place for us to spend time, effort, and

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31:33

Neen James - Idea Shaping

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/11/13

Neen James helps people think about how they focus their time, and how they maximize the impact, for not only themselves but also their organization. And she does a lot of very interesting coaching around systems thinking and communication techniques to improve executive effectiveness. Neen shares insights about paying attention, and how to focus your attention on the things that are your strengths and allow your team to focus on the rest. Neen discusses the importance of remembering that No is a

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36:29

The Five Hats

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/11/07

This episode focuses on the secret to being a great and lazy CEO - knowing what to work on, only working on that, and getting rid of everything else. When I spread my effort across the whole organization, or we call it peanut buttering, your time across the business, it's not particularly useful because you haven't applied force in a significant way to one or two problems to really bust through them and get a great answer. You sort of neutralize all your effort by spreading it so thin. You can think

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25:45

6 Types of Power

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/11/01

Jim Schleckser is the Chief Executive Officer of The CEO Project, a business advisory group for accomplished CEOs to help them solve their most challenging issues, resolve constraints, drive growth, and improve outcomes. With 30 years of leadership experience in business strategy, organizational development, sales, marketing, and more, Jim leads global organizations across many functional areas in both public and private environments. He specializes in solving issues that fast-growing firms

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48:45

Gen Z in the Workforce

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/10/25

Jim Schleckser is the Chief Executive Officer of The CEO Project, a business advisory group for accomplished CEOs to help them solve their most challenging issues, resolve constraints, drive growth, and improve outcomes. With 30 years of leadership experience in business strategy, organizational development, sales, marketing, and more, Jim leads global organizations across many functional areas in both public and private environments. He specializes in solving issues that fast-growing firms

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01:01:51

Millennials in the Workforce

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/10/18

Robert Bell is a Tech Lead, Software Consultant, and Developer at Atomic Object, a software design and development consultancy. As an innovative software developer, he has the capacity to recognize client issues and generate solutions in a quick-paced, intricate, and dynamic setting. Before Atomic Object, Robert was a control and robotics engineer in the automotive industry, where he received the 2011 Heinz Dürr Innovation Award — a prize given by the Dürr AG with over 50 submissions from people in

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50:15

Effective Negotiations Part 2

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/10/11

Jim Schleckser is the Chief Executive Officer of The CEO Project, a business advisory group for accomplished CEOs to help them solve their most challenging issues, resolve constraints, drive growth, and improve outcomes. With 30 years of leadership experience in business strategy, organizational development, sales, marketing, and more, Jim leads global organizations across many functional areas in both public and private environments. He specializes in solving issues that fast-growing firms

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45:34

Effective Negotiations Part 1

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/10/04

Jim Schleckser is the Chief Executive Officer of The CEO Project, a business advisory group for accomplished CEOs to help them solve their most challenging issues, resolve constraints, drive growth, and improve outcomes. With 30 years of leadership experience in business strategy, organizational development, sales, marketing, and more, Jim leads global organizations across many functional areas in both public and private environments. He specializes in solving issues that fast-growing firms

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26:07

Entrepreneurship - Part 2

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/09/27

Joel Trammell is the Founder of the Texas CEO Magazine and the Co-founder of American CEO, a company that provides educational resources for chief executive officers. He is a successful entrepreneur who has founded four businesses and served as CEO of seven others — from startups to public firms valued at $1 billion. As an author and educator, Joel has extensive experience teaching CEO Master Classes and Managerial Excellence Courses. He regularly speaks at conferences and nationwide events and has

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27:27

Entrepreneurship - Part 1

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/09/20

Joel Trammell is the Founder of the Texas CEO Magazine and the Co-founder of American CEO, a company that provides educational resources for chief executive officers. He is a successful entrepreneur who has founded four businesses and served as CEO of seven others – from start-ups to public firms valued at $1 billion. As an author and educator, Joel has extensive experience teaching CEO Master Classes and Managerial Excellence Courses. He regularly speaks at conferences and nationwide events and has

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45:43

Raising Capital

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/09/13

There are two reasons to need capital: one reason is to fund growth and another reason to need capital is inventory. In this episode, Jim Schleckser explains why a business needs capital, where to get capital for the business, and why you need to bring capital into your business. He also shares his best tips for bringing capital into your business so make sure to tune in.

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42:11

The Importance of a Strong Business Model

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/09/09

Jason Boyce is the Founder and CEO of Avenue7Media, a company that guides brands through the most successful and competitive marketplace in the world — Amazon. They provide tools such as design, research, product development and management, customer service, optimization, and more. Jason’s entrepreneurial journey began with dropshipping sports goods, and through this experience, he started Avenue7Media to help others navigate the cutthroat marketing industry. With nearly 20 years of e-commerce and

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29:58

From CEO to CEO Advisor

The CEO Project Podcast ·

2022/08/05

Jim Schleckser is the Chief Executive Officer of The CEO Project, a business advisory group for accomplished CEOs to help them solve their most challenging issues, resolve constraints, drive growth, and improve outcomes. With 30 years of leadership experience in business strategy, organizational development, sales, marketing, and more, Jim leads global organizations across many functional areas in both public and private environments. He specializes in solving issues that fast-growing firms

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