Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, P.h.D, is the CEO of the boutique future-of-work consultancy Disaster Avoidance Experts. He is the best-selling author of seven books, including Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage. His expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting for Fortune 500 companies from Aflac to Xerox and over 15 years in academia as a behavioral scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and Ohio State.

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with him through LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

CEO Insider

Are You Falling for the Myth of “Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail”?

CEO InsiderDr. Gleb Tsipursky

You probably heard the advice that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” That phrase is a misleading myth at best and actively dangerous at worst. Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. ...

Education and Career

How to Defeat Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue

Education and CareerDr. Gleb Tsipursky

As we transition from the pandemic into post-pandemic life, many companies have adapted hybrid models. That means workers coming in part-time only, while others remain fully remote. So the same issues of work-from-home burnout and Zoom fatigue that posed problems during the pandemic will remain salient for the foreseeable future....

Lifestyle and Travel

8 Powerful Questions You Need to Ask Before Stakeholder Engagement

Lifestyle and TravelDr. Gleb Tsipursky

Stakeholder engagement is one of the more critical aspects of leadership. Stakeholders can be anyone from your frontline employees to suppliers to business partners, and your organization’s relationship with them is dynamic and can change over time. There are many advantages to identifying and getting to know your stakeholders, and...

CEO Insider

The Deadly Threat of COVID-19 Misinformation in Mainstream Media for CEOs

CEO InsiderDr. Gleb Tsipursky

CEOs need to understand that the mainstream media news sources that they and their employees consume can kill them - or save them. That’s the fundamental insight of a powerful new study about the impact of watching either Sean Hannity’s news show Hannity or Tucker Carlson’s Tucker Carlson Tonight: one...

Tech and Innovation

Work-From-Home Burnout and Zoom Fatigue is a Lot More Complex Than You Think

Tech and InnovationDr. Gleb Tsipursky

Have you or your employees been feeling work-from-home burnout and Zoom fatigue these past months despite the supposed convenience of working from home and using videoconferences to meet? Unfortunately, the vast majority of efforts to address WFH burnout try to treat the symptoms without addressing the root causes. The fundamental...

Success and Leadership

How to Do a Strategic Pivot to Address COVID

Success and LeadershipDr. Gleb Tsipursky

“It’s not going away, and we have to face that reality.” That’s what the CEO and founder of a high-tech manufacturing startup with 180 employees told the leadership team in early July to convince them of the need to do a strategic pivot to address COVID. Previously, the startup’s executives...

Lifestyle and Travel

How Leaders Can Balance Work and Life to Survive and Thrive During This Pandemic

Lifestyle and TravelDr. Gleb Tsipursky

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has changed life as we know it, as well as how we manage our households. While being shut mostly in our homes or observing infection prevention guidelines when leaving our house, it can be pretty hard to grapple with the reality of the world in which...

Tech and Innovation

Should Leaders Be Worried About the New COVID Strains?

Tech and InnovationDr. Gleb Tsipursky

Should leaders be worried about the new COVID strains originating in the UK, South Africa, and elsewhere, and recently identified in the US? The authoritiess have focused on downplaying concerns about vaccine effectiveness against these new variants. While some legitimate concerns exist that our vaccines might be 10-20% less effective...

CEO Agenda

Defending Your Organization From Misinformation via Neuroscience

CEO AgendaDr. Gleb Tsipursky

Whenever you hear something repeated, it feels more true when you hear it repeated. In other words, repetition makes any statement seem more true. So anything you hear will feel more true each time you hear it again. Do you see what I did there? Each of the three sentences...

Tech and Innovation

Are You Paying Attention to What Matters in This Pandemic?

Tech and InnovationDr. Gleb Tsipursky

What are you paying attention to during this pandemic? What you’re focusing on can make a big difference to your business, your career, and your health. Many people are very excited by the prospect of effective vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. This wonderful news has deservedly lifted the stock market,...

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