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SoundView “Executive Insights”
SoundView did a series of "Executive Insights" interviews with Irv Rothman. Watch them here:
Insights into What Makes a Good Leader, October 1, 2013
John Chancellor reviews: Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy
See why John gives this book 5 Stars Amazon Reviews
Irv Talks to Robert Reiss of the CEO Show: The Key To Doing Executive Deals? Gutsball!
Making deals is a powerful way for executives to create value, and an important skill in any executive’s arsenal. To explore what goes on behind the scenes, Robert Reiss sat down with legendary deal maker Irv Rothman, who has made tens of thousands of deals with aggregate value of over $100 billion, many in tech finance. Rothman, who is CEO of HP Financial Services, a $4 billion company with 1,500 employees focused on doing deals, had a new concept I hadn’t heard of: Gutsball, which he outlines in his new book: OUT-EXECUTING THE COMPETITION: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy.
What is Gutsball and how does it work? FIND OUT
Interview: Business Owner’s Toolkit on Radio America
Interview on Smart Companies Radio
Irv Rothman offers advice for starting, building and expanding any business.
Earning Respect Of Subordinates Is Vital To Leading
Earning Respect Of Subordinates Is Vital To Leading
Equipment Leasing & Finance Magazine
Read the full article under the Executive Perspective section of Equipment Leasing & Finance Magazine...
Out Executing the Competition: It’s About Getting Your Fingernails Dirty
Excerpt from Out-Executing the Competition on TLNT
M&A: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Longtime equipment-finance executive Irv Rothman prefers not to grow through mergers and acquisitions. But he’s made the most of the opportunities such deals have afforded him.
Review: Out-Executing The Competition, by Irv Rothman
Readers seeking pearls of wisdom to get ahead in business have often favoured books focusing on billionaires such as Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs and Sir Richard Branson.
But as the appetite for business books swells, a growing wave of titles by successful, if less well known, executives are hitting the market.
Irv Rothman’s book, Out-Executing The Competition, is one such. Rothman may not be a household name like Mr Buffett but within the corporate world he is no small player.
Read the rest of Tom Arnold’s review atThe National
6 Basic Ideas for CEOs To Better Communicate Their Message
One of the most important lessons Irv Rothman learned from his 32 years of running customized leasing and financing for HP, Compaq Financial Services and AT&T Capital, was the importance of using communications to make the potentially unwieldy company seem smaller and more interconnected. With rise of product and service-specific branding as an organizing business principle, creating a durable, attractive message that can be distributed widely internally and externally is all important. The following prescriptive ideas come from Rothman’s recently published “Out-Executing the Competition.”
HP Financial CEO says local control helps create global powerhouse
NJ Biz.com article - September 12. 2012