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2020 CEO Forum Partner Profile: BDO USA, LLP
Thank you to BDO USA, LLP for your partnership with the Colorado CEO Forum. It is a pleasure to tell your story alongside you this year! ACM LLP grew to the region’s largest independently owned public accounting firm, widely recognized as a Best Company to Work For, and joined BDO USA, LLP on August 1, 2020.
2020 CEO Forum Partner Profile: The Forbes M+A Group
Thank you to The Forbes M+A Group for your long-time partnership with the Colorado CEO Forum. It is a pleasure to tell your story alongside you this year! Who we are: The Forbes M+A Group, founded in 2004 with offices in Denver, CO, Salt Lake City, UT, and Nashville...
Becoming A Breakthrough CEO: Laser Focus on the Customer
When your company is customer-centric and laser focused on your customer, the outcome is a true “hand-in-glove fit” that drives volume, pricing, and ultimately growth and profitability. Here are a few keys to this Breakthrough…
Humility is a SuperPower
It’s remarkably uncomfortable being questioned and pressed to the brink. Being pushed to a fork in the road. Have you been there before? Humility can be our guide – our super power – to see around the corner in brand new ways.
Deepening Our Roots for the Storms of Life
Together, we have processed crisis…been vulnerable about our struggle to navigate the unknown…made big shifts in our priorities, routines, and daily structures…and gleaned powerful insights. What questions will you ask yourself so that your roots are deep and ready to handle any storm life brings you?
Unwinding
As we shelter in place, so many things are unwinding. Our routines, rhythms, and long ingrained ways of doing things have been upended. Upon finding many knots in my own life, I began to wonder, “When did I start getting wound up in the first place, tight, constricted, and just plain full?” It started with a deceptive and subtle yet unmistakable pattern. I said yes. To everything. Knot. Tighten. Grip. Pull. It’s time for a sea-change.
Life at Home…
Life at home, compelled by ‘shelter in place’ orders all over the State, is, well, unique. Not the right word. Interesting? Yes. Chaotic, stressful, overwhelming and taxing also apply. If you’re feeling this way, perhaps a few quick stories will lighten your load, and perhaps they will give you a new perspective, as they did me.
How to Rise to the Challenges of COVID-19
They say on every flight before we take off, “put your oxygen mask on first before trying to help anyone else.” This highly practical article by Joshua Hunt shares tips that helped him weather the storms of 9-11 and 2008, and they can help you get your air mask on, so you can rise to the challenges ahead and come out on the other side of this in the absolute best possible way.
SBA Loan Resources
HOW TO NAVIGATE THE SBA LOAN PROCESS: Ami Kassar will continue with his noon ET SBA Loan webinars tomorrow and next week -- register here. Here's his community site to help business owners navigate through the SBA loan process during these confusing times.
Solving Big Problems Fast (The Tom Chi Methodology)
Tom Chi is an inventor who started Google X, Google’s invention team. This technique created a working prototype of Google Glass in just one day, and he utilizes it to rapidly solve big problems of all kinds!
You can use this methodology to invite unfiltered ideas into the room, try new ideas, learn from them, and solve your big problems quickly!