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  • Learn with Aileron: The 5Cs of High Performing Boards | Aileron

Learn with Aileron: The 5Cs of High Performing Boards

2024-03-20T17:56:17-04:00Business Structure, Leadership, Organizational Performance, Strategy|

When it comes to a Board of Advisors, these five qualities separate the exasperating from the exceptional. Does your board have them? A cohesive, high-functioning Board of Advisors can be an invaluable source of wisdom, accountability, and support for a business owner. But if the board is ineffective, misaligned, or poorly managed, it can consume a business owner’s [ Read More ]

  • Aileron Announcement: Peer Group for Presidents is Open for Registration

Aileron Announcement: Peer Group for Presidents is Open for Registration

2024-03-18T08:46:06-04:00Aileron News, Leadership|

This new service gives our community of business owners time and space to learn with and from other presidents, business owners, and CEOs Our team is thrilled to announce the launch of a new service: Peer Group for Presidents. While we’ve been operating Peer Groups for years in one-off capacities, this update formally installs the service into our [ Read More ]

  • Learn with Aileron: What’s Your Natural Energetic Response to Stress? | Aileron

Learn with Aileron: What’s Your Natural Energetic Response to Stress?

2024-02-29T09:01:44-05:00Leadership|

A tenet of Aileron’s DOC System of Professional Management is conscious leadership — the belief that leading others begins with leading yourself first. A core part of self-leadership is energetic awareness: knowing how we’re showing up and shifting your own energy to more intentionally support others. Many of our services that contain conscious leadership concepts begin with an [ Read More ]

  • Are You Feeling the Most Common Pains of Business Ownership? | Aileron

Are You Feeling the Most Common Pains of Business Ownership?

2024-02-19T11:10:57-05:00Business Structure, Leadership, Strategy|

At Aileron, we practice customer intimacy and frequently conduct customer research so we can design services and content that support our community of business owners. Part of our process involves completing the Strategyzer Value Proposition Canvas. This tool helps us more deeply understand business owners, the challenges they face, and the outcomes they’re after. Since we started collecting [ Read More ]

  • How a Vision Can Change Your Organization | Aileron

How a Vision Can Change Your Organization

2024-01-31T12:22:13-05:00Leadership, Strategy|

As Aileron’s community spends time and energy in January doing the meaningful work of vision-setting, it’s the perfect time to revisit your organizational vision and ensure it is providing the direction your organization and team need. When done well, a vision can have a monumental impact on the organization, its people, and the bottom line. Here’s how. A [ Read More ]

  • How Clay Mathile's Founder’s Intent still guides Aileron today — and what we can all learn from it | Aileron

How Clay Mathile’s Founder’s Intent still guides Aileron today — and what we can all learn from it

2024-02-23T11:13:53-05:00Aileron News, Founder's Day, Leadership|

Clay Mathile was a champion of the power of a well-constructed vision. He saw a clearly articulated, documented vision as a key resource that would guide an organization toward an intentional future — so it may come as no surprise that he equipped Aileron with an incredibly thorough, detailed vision that defined his hope for Aileron’s future. His [ Read More ]

  • Founder’s Day: A Call to Learn, Do and Give | Aileron

Founder’s Day: A Call to Learn, Do and Give

2023-12-28T15:17:16-05:00Aileron News, Founder's Day, Leadership|

Our founder, Clay Mathile, embodied a philosophy that resonated beyond Aileron. His mindset of "learning, doing, giving" was a blueprint for building a meaningful life, thriving organization, and impactful community. “I believe everyone should spend a third of their life learning, a third [doing], and a third giving it away.” – Clay Mathile He believed that the greatest [ Read More ]

  • What is Founder’s Day? | Aileron

What is Founder’s Day?

2023-12-27T10:25:49-05:00Aileron News, Culture, Founder's Day, Leadership|

We're thrilled to announce our inaugural Founder's Day — a special time to honor the visionary leadership of our founder, Clay Mathile, and his enduring dream for Aileron. Each Janurary, we will intentionally use this time for our community — business owners, leaders, and advocates – to come together and collectively advance Clay's vision for Aileron. Founder's Day [ Read More ]

  • Leading a High Performing Board: How to Harness The Power of Your Board | Aileron

Leading a High Performing Board: How to Harness The Power of Your Board

2024-02-23T11:14:40-05:00Business Structure, Leadership, Organizational Performance|

As a business owner, you make several investments in your company—like property, resources for operations, and employee training. Have you also considered an outside board as one the most crucial investments? Oftentimes, establishing and leading a board falls further down the entrepreneur’s never-ending list of priorities. Yet it’s one of the most significant investments you can make for [ Read More ]

  • CCPP and The Iams Way | Aileron

Remembering our Founder: CCPP and The Iams Way

2023-10-20T13:52:08-04:00Aileron News, Leadership|

Clay Mathile’s leadership of The Iams Company might best be described in four letters: CCPP. It represented four main ingredients for Iams’ success: customer, culture, product, and people. More than a slogan or internal shorthand, CCPP was a holistic belief system that guided everything from daily operations to big-picture decisions. Iams employees—more aptly considered Iams family members—embraced this [ Read More ]

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