REX™ Roundtables offer five unique factors which produce powerful results for their members. Peers—By meeting regularly with your peers—other CEOs and owners, facing similar challenges-a community of equals is built. They provide a level of understanding and support that is not available from staff, a board, friends or a spouse. On the other hand they can be incisively confrontational at a level that subordinates, spouses and consultants rarely can. This strong peer support enables the confrontation to be useful and accepted. Consultants and industry experts under contract typically lack the credibility and courage to push so hard and so successfully. Peers are also a great way to filter out passing management and industry fads that are often primarily supported by consultants and professors. Industry Focus—Only by focusing on your industry peers can you really become better. Athletes from all the Olympic sports share many things in common, but swimmers only really become better racing other swimmers; not volley ball players or rowers. REX utilizes the broad range of its chairs' experience plus the variety of industries where REX RTs operate to provide powerful cross fertilization across industries. Consultants are smart, but your peers know you and your industry. On Going—The low cost of REX RTs plus their high value historically have led to members attending regularly for years at a stretch. This allows the members and the chair to take a long term view. This nurtures accountability, follow through and true implementation and growth. Seminars and industry association meetings are great ways to learn, but too often the agenda is repetitive and there are no tools for customizing a generic message to your company and then assuring implementation. Most CEOs have learned much more than they can implement. Driven by practicality REX Roundtables seek to reverse this imbalance. Implementation—When Will Phillips was a principle in charge of strategic planning services in a major, national CPA firm, he examined the usual recommendations made at the end of each audit. These suggestions were made by smart, experienced business people. In most cases the recommendations were 'right'; that is they were on target. If implemented they would have helped the business. Yet in reality over 85% of the recommendations were not implemented. He realized there was a huge difference between recommending or even choosing a diet and loosing weight. In the weight loss arena, there is unending evidence that weight loss occurs and remains most successfully when the client has long term support and encouragement and problem solving. This is exactly what the REX RTs provide—results. RT Priorities and Results—There are two major priorities in REX Roundtables for Executives. First is business success which is built on a foundation of dramatically improving financial results. A recent survey of REX members reported an average of 25% improved performance due to the round table. On top of this financial foundation is shaping an organization that runs well and fulfills its mission. Secondly, the round tables work to enhance the CEO's life. This varies from freeing up their agenda to better focus on their strengths and passions to managing significant transitions in their work and professional life. Members report and average of 30% reduction in stress from Roundtable participation. In one REX Roundtable the members averaged 18% annual growth for every year they were a member. And many were members for fifteen years.