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Leading Growth, the CEO Survey
ceo surveyI am a member of the Summit Global Network. We are 22 boutique consulting firms on 7 continents who share resources, insights, and consulting expertise in the line of duty. We recently surveyed 84 CEOs around the world on Leading Growth.

As many of you know, I also work a good deal with CEOs of professional societies and trade associations. On my invitation, sixteen professional society and eleven trade association executives participated in the survey. This made it possible to contrast the two types of associations with each other and with their private sector counterparts.

Some of survey results:
� Over two-thirds of respondents, including 56% of professional societies and 63% of trade associations foresee growth.
� The volatile economy poses, by far, the greatest threat to growth for all.
� Too much emphasis is placed on monetary reward by professional societies when research clearly shows that autonomy and freedom are far more important. This same concern does not hold for trade associations who use greater freedom and latitude of action more frequently to reward employees.
� Trade associations are not looking to expand in Japan or Australasia, whereas professional societies are.

There is a good deal of insight here across the board because of the wide range of participation. More of my observations are included in the results. Feel free to share the survey, which you can download here.

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