Gary Harpst

Small business leadership during a recession

How will small business leadership have a positive impact on economic recovery? Gary Harpst and Jim Blasingame discuss this issue, plus the challenges of sustaining growth.

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How do you avoid letting the urgent overcome the important? Gary Harpst joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to at least reduce, if not eliminate, crisis management by having a strategy that helps you avoid letting the urgent become the enemy of the important.
How do we transition our teams from survival mode to finding opportunity? Gary Harpst joins Jim Blasingame to identify how to select certain people who will be responsible for identifying new opportunities and bringing them back to the team.
There are four kinds of leadership development, according to Gary Harpst, who joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the way each one allows your small business to grow in a more sophisticated and therefore, more successful way.
One of the key traits of a true leader is the ability to train and encourage others to be leaders. Gary Harpst and Jim Blasingame talk about how to make individual workers more responsible and to become "self leaders."
As the leader of your organization, are you spending more time executing than leading? Gary Harpst talks with Jim Blasingame about why CEOs at all levels must focus on building an organization that can execute so that leadership can actually lead.