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.

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CEO Insider

The Curse That Causes Promotions to Fail

CEO InsiderDr. Gleb Tsipursky

It’s tragically common for people in organizations to be promoted up the hierarchy to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They are promoted because they did well in their previous job, not based on their potential to meet the needs of the new...

CEO Insider

What Do Employees Want When They Return to the Office?

CEO InsiderDr. Gleb Tsipursky

It’s easy to assume we know what they want due to a dangerous judgment error termed the false consensus effect. This problematic mental blindspot causes us to perceive others who we feel to be in our team as sharing our beliefs. That’s often not the case. The false consensus effect...

CEO Perspectives

Why Do Smart Leaders Deny Serious Strategic Risks in the Post-COVID World (and What to Do About It)

CEO PerspectivesDr. Gleb Tsipursky

When a threat seems clear to you, it’s hard to believe others will deny it. Yet smart people deny serious risks surprisingly often. A case in point example comes from my experience helping a mid-size regional insurance company conduct a strategic pivot to thrive in the post-COVID world in January...

CEO Perspectives

3 Things You Need to Control to Succeed as a Leader

CEO PerspectivesDr. Gleb Tsipursky

Successful leaders know that we can control only 3 things in our life: our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. If we can take charge over those, we can lead our organizations, and our lives, to our own vision of success. That vision may differ for successful leaders: some want to grow...

Chief Executive Insider

How to Avoid Losing

Chief Executive InsiderDr. Gleb Tsipursky

It’s your lucky day! You meet a kind stranger who offers you your choice of a great deal, something for nothing. No tricks, really: you’re getting a free lunch. She gives you $45. Then, she asks if you want to keep that money, or give it to her in exchange...

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....

CEO Lifestyle

8 Powerful Questions You Need to Ask Before Stakeholder Engagement

CEO LifestyleDr. 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...

Big Business

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

Big BusinessDr. 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...

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