I had an interesting meeting with Damian McKinney, CEO of the consulting firm McKinney Rogers. His clients include Walmart, Bacardi and Pfizer. We discussed how CEOs are now struggling to move their teams out of a defensive, bunker mentality and into a more opportunistic stance. Below are steps he is advising his clients... 

Here’s an unusual step a CEO took to make his company more entrepreneurial: Ban annual performance reviews. Sam Inman, CEO of Comarco, a small 32-person outfit which makes universal charge adapters, stopped giving out annual raises and holding the annual review session after noticing the process seemed to build... 

The highly controversial practice of expensing stock options comes up frequently when we are training managers. Understanding options and how they impact financial statements is part of becoming financially intelligent. Some believe that expensing stock options helps to more truly represent a company’s financial...