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Mike Flynn & Associates provides consulting and advisory services to a wide range of businesses across industries and geographic regions. We create opportunities to build relationships among businesses and provide counsel and guidance for entrepreneurs and growing companies, as well as those who need to make business or investor connections with them. Areas of particular interest are enhancing rural economic development (including Washington’s wine industry), creating events that help businesses achieve strategic objectives, facilitating relations for angel and venture investment, and providing introductions and counsel to those seeking “post-retirement” careers and involvements. |
Honoring CEOs who have earned admiration from their peers and their communities
At a time when the image of CEO has been tarnished by the ineptitude and illegalities of corporate leaders who helped bring the nation to its economic knees and launch the Great Recession, the effort to determine admirable CEOs and the qualities that guide that designation are perhaps more important than at any time in the history of the country.
And focusing on admirable CEO qualities is part of the key to restoring the respect for business that has eroded dramatically as well since the fall of 2008.
Thus there is no more appropriate time to launch an effort to focus on honoring the "Most Admired CEOs," and developing the characteristics that manifest themselves in respected CEOs.
We created the concept, and coined the designation, in summer of 2006, to assist Vistage International, the San Diego-based worldwide organization for CEOs, to put on events in various cities to honor an array of CEOs, including public and private companies and non-profits. Vistage became the first sponsor-partner of events in San Diego (in partnership with theSan Diego Business Journal) and San Francisco (in partnership with theSan Francisco Business Times).
The probability is that the Best CEO designation will be bestowed at events at which CEOs of privately held companies, as well as non-profits, would also be honore
