The Best CEOs Continually Improve

"Success breeds complacency, complacency breeds failure." – Andy Grove

How do CEOs (business owners) avoid complacency and sustain high performance through the middle years of the role? There is no magic formula, but from these authors research and experience in the field of CEO excellence, they are confident the odds are greatly increased by the following:

• Enhancing your learning agenda
• Taking an outsider’s perspective
• Collaboratively defining the next S-curve
• Future-proofing the organization

Read on to learn more about all of the above.

Minority Business Ownership Differs By Sector

As the U.S. population has become more diverse, ownership of U.S. businesses has changed.  There were more Hispanic-owned businesses overall and more minority-owned businesses in various sectors in 2020 than a decade earlier, according to the Census Bureau’s 2021 Annual Business Survey (ABS).

Approximately 20% or 1.2 million of these employer businesses were owned by minorities. They employed about 9.9 million employees and had annual payroll of $357.4 billion.

Learn more about who owns America's businesses and how minority business ownership differs by sector.

The Entrepreneurial Journey

JP Morgan | Chase asked business owners and leaders to share the strategies, priorities and principles they’ve embraced throughout their entrepreneurial journey.

Here's what they said.

Vegas Events: The 2023 WPO Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum

Come one, come all – it's finally here:  The 2023 WPO Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum May 10-12, 2023 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas.

Check it out here and learn from WPO members the answer to this key question:  Why did you join WPO and what have you gotten out of it?

See you in Vegas!

U.S. Women Entrepreneurs Are Fueling Business Growth

In the United States, many women are fueling this newfound growth in entrepreneurship, creating around half of all new businesses in 2022.

They are the future of work.  Learn why.