Leadership
Owner-operator's Role
How CEOs Change as their Firms Grow
This is a comprehensive study published by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade on how owner-operators change their style and focus as they lead their firms through different growth phases.
Ten Characteristics of Leaders
A list of useful insights.
Characteristics of a Leader
120 tips on good leadership qualities, among them: focus on results, not activities or personalities; getting people to commit to deadlines; do employee opinion surveys. A useful browser for new ideas.
Leading Management Practices
Ernst & Young surveyed the winners of its Entrepreneur of the Year awards to rank them on the five most important CEO activities and to identify related tasks and best practices.
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Aspects of Leadership (In French only)
Scroll to item 1.10 for an interesting overview of the multiple functions and roles of a leader. This outline provided by The Alliance of Sector Councils serves as a useful guide to anyone thinking about their leadership style.
Partnership or Shareholder Agreements
Standard Outline for a Partnership or Shareholder Agreement
The Canada Business website offers a good, basic guide on how to secure and protect a relationship with a partner or partners in a shareholders agreement.
Vision
How to Write a Vision Statement
This article on Profitguide.com describes the benefits and the basic steps in defining an articulated vision.
Making a Vision Dynamic
Some pointers by Microsoft on a fresh approach to articulating your vision.
Mission Statements
Down-to-earth tips on crafting a mission statement that is right for you, provided by BizMove.
Vision as Focus
A stimulating article by Entrepreneur.com that suggests new focuses required for an entrepreneur's vision — including customer-driven instead of technology-driven.
Organizational Culture
Innovation Business Vision
This British site provides an in-depth assessment of the innovativeness of your company culture.
Succession Planning
The Definitive Guide to Retiring from your Business
Running your own business? Thinking about retirement? Advance planning can help you expand your options and make smarter long-term decisions. RBC Royal Bank's web site provides a general overview of the issues associated with succession planning.
My Project: Succession Planning
Articles in the Business Development Bank of Canada website emphasizing the need for family-run and public businesses and developing a solid succession plan to ensure their long term success.
Canadian Association of Family Enterprise (CAFE)
This site details the various programs offered by CAFE oriented for family enterprises.
Team-building
Winning Management Teams
This is a provocative study published by the Ontario Ministry of Entreprise, Opportunity and Innovation concerning the techniques owner-operators use in building their management teams.
Delegation
Delegating Work and Responsibility
ZeroMillion underlines the importance of delegation and how it can be implemented.
Delegation Tips
BizMove provides a list of observations that prompt many ideas for how to delegate better.
Decision Making
Decision-making (In French only)
Scroll to item 1.12 for an outline of the essential steps to be followed in making good decisions. The details of each step are not described, but the outline serves as a useful guide on how to approach important decisions.
Thinking through Big Decisions
Ten penetrating questions for a big decision, including: "What do I need from this decision? Am I setting my ego aside? What does my decision reveal about my beliefs?"
Time Management
Effective Time Management (In French only)
Scroll to item 1.8 for a list of tips to managing your time to greatest effect.
Time Management
A bilingual site devoted to the management of time.
Time is Life
A view of time management by Bizmove that focuses on ten real issues, such as being aware of how you spend your time now, controlling procrastination, under-promising and over-delivering and remember you're only human.
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Managing for Business Success
