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Bill Yeargin

Bill Yeargin

Bill Yeargin is a thought leader, CEO, board member, global traveler (110 countries), innovator, and culture evangelist. Bill is the President and CEO of Correct Craft, a 100-year-old marine company that has manufacturing facilities across the U.S. and distributes into 70 countries. He has authored six books, including the best-sellers Education of a CEO and Faith Leap. Bill has shared leadership insights in innumerable articles and columns for over three decades and has been a popular speaker at hundreds of events on six continents.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA, and completed post-graduate studies at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Villanova, and MIT. Nova Southeastern University awarded him a Doctorate of Humane Letters in recognition of his “contribution to the lives of others and the betterment of humanity.” He served both the Obama and Trump administrations on cabinet-level advisory councils and has been invited to the White House eight times, by three different presidents.

Bill Yeargin is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with him through LinkedIn.
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Executive Briefing

The Key to Good Decisions

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Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister leading up to World War II, has been ridiculed like few other leaders. He is an easy target because his negotiations with Adolf Hitler resulted in the Munich Agreement, what some have called appeasement, which failed to stop Germany from invading Eastern Europe. It...
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Global CEO Forum

Stop Doing What Is Working

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I have never eaten at a Long John Silver’s restaurant, but I do know the 56-year-old brand has historically specialized in seafood. So, it was surprising when Long John Silver’s recently announced that it is engaging in what is called creative destruction, by switching their product focus from fish to...
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Executive Briefing

Why Diversity Matters

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We live in an extraordinary world of technological benefits because of unification theory. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, unification theory merges different scientific concepts into new, much more powerful, concepts. One of the easiest examples of this for me to understand is electromagnetism, the unification of electrical and...
Bill Yeargin is President and CEO of Correct Craft
Executive Briefing

Losing Capitalism

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I am a CEO, not an economist, and I confess to having a strong affinity for capitalism. I believe if you want to help people, you should start a philanthropic organization. If you want to help a LOT of people, start a business. Capitalism is the undeniable wealth creator, but...
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CEO Insider

I Am Out of Touch; You Probably Are Too

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This is embarrassing, but I will admit it: I feel out of touch. This realization happened recently while reading the book Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz. Lorenz shares the history of influencers on the internet – primarily through social media – and how they impact our society. Lorenz’s stories are...
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CEO Insider

Why Boards Fail

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Serving on dozens of boards – both for-profit and non-profit – over three decades has provided me a unique window into organizational governance. I have seen a lot of boards succeed and many that didn’t. Boards play an invaluable governance role for organizations but often underperform at their job. Frequently,...
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CEO Insider

When Culture Matters

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In early 1945 the planet was ravaged. A deadly world war had consumed the globe and killed tens of millions; most people were living with unimaginable stress. However, the tide was turning in favor of the allies; Hitler had overplayed his hand at the Battle of the Bulge. War in...