How to Play — and Win — in the Game of Business
Too many people spend their working lives just putting in their time with little energy or passion. Gallup polling shows that nearly 70 percent of employees aren’t engaged at work. Creating a culture...
View Article6 Top Reasons Why Companies Fly Private
No matter what is happening in the world executives must still be able to carry on their work as usual, and it’s imperative this happens as time is money. Now more than ever, safety is a feature for...
View ArticleEven As Covid-19 Rages, CEOs Face More Enduring Crises
The Covid-19 pandemic is, of course, a game changer for virtually every business around the world. Each chief executive and their organizations will have to address the very real issues arising from...
View ArticleHow To Launch A Business While Working On Your Degree
Many college students worry about how the job market will treat them once they graduate – especially these days with a recession created by the COVID-19 pandemic. But entrepreneurially minded students...
View ArticleHey CEOs: Now What?
The world is watching to see what actual progress CEOs will make on diversity and inclusion. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man living in Minneapolis, MN was murdered by police. He...
View ArticleHow Leaders Eliminate Or Prevent Toxic Workplaces
“I feel that part of my job is to run a daycare for adults,” said one CEO as he walked out of his office after a series of emotionally draining one-on-one meetings with several of the company’s...
View Article5 Financial Pressure Points For CEOs To Evaluate During COVID Times
Quite frankly, this may be the most difficult period in the history of your company. You are navigating through a storm you never imagined, with potentially the worst still to come. Or perhaps the...
View ArticleNot Sure How to Lead Your Team Through Uncertainty? Focus on What You Can...
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an incredible amount of uncertainty. Employees wonder whether they’ll keep their jobs amid rising unemployment, parents question whether their kids will be safe...
View ArticleSustenance Workmanship through Education
IN THE READY- TO- DELIVER HOSPITALITY WORLD One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the...
View ArticleThe Four Stages of Diffusing Old Beliefs
A belief structure is simply a thought that gets repeated over and over again until you believe it. It then becomes a part of your identity, and sometimes it’s even a formative piece of your identity...
View ArticleEnsuring Wellness of Post-Pandemic Employees
These are the oddest of times. Few of us are living our normal lives. We do not know what will happen next or when this insidious virus will go away. Will it come back again? If I catch it how will it...
View ArticleLeaders: Do You Have A Negotiating System … Or A Discounting System?
Here’s a powerful question I urge senior leaders to ask sales managers: What is our negotiation system? In other words: What is the process for negotiation that has been taught and trained to all your...
View ArticleThree Ways to Strengthen Brand Reputation During the Pandemic
During an economic downturn, it’s traditionally the marketing budget that’s first on the chopping block. Some B2B tech companies think that in such a crisis situation, no one will be buying their...
View ArticleChoosing The Right Chief Diversity Officer
Recent events have mobilized for-profit and nonprofit organizations nationwide to increase their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I). Not only are these actions being seen and felt...
View ArticleFor Big Tech, Breaking Up May Not Be Hard To Do
Here’s a fun fact: This exact week of August 1962, Neil Sedeka’s “Breaking Up is Hard to Do” landed in the #1 spot of Billboard’s Hot 100. Thanks to last week’s Congressional antitrust hearings, this...
View ArticleThe secret to becoming an open source project lead
Commentary: For developers who want to become leaders in their chosen open source communities, the process is easier (and more difficult) than you might think.
View ArticleFrom Project Inception to Completion
Period profit is a result. It starts with an investment generating cash. After deduction of value differences and taxes, net profit remains. Analogous to the law of conservation of energy in physics,...
View ArticleAre You Ready To Become An Authentic Leader?
Authentic leadership has increasingly become one of the most dominant paradigms today and will be used by many companies around the globe in the next five years. Let us look at authentic leaders and...
View ArticleR & R & R: Risk, Reward and Responsibility
If you happened to be raised ‘back in the day’ you will recall the 3 R’s with which schoolchildren were indoctrinated: Reading, writing , ‘rithmatic. For my money, those three R’s served us well. I...
View ArticleAm I Priced Right for Covid-19?
Ever find yourself wondering, “Am I priced right?” As my attorneys like to say about everything that I ask them, “Well, that depends,” as I roll my eyes and say, “Will somebody give me a straight...
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