C-Suite Agenda

Intangibles have been largely ignored by accounting standards and traditional valuation methodologies. Consequently, many organizations do not have a clear picture of the economic worth of their intangibles. Given the increasing importance of intangibles in driving growth and revenue, a failure to identify and leverage the value of these assets...

It's been 18 years since I changed my arena of combat from the internet industry to the hospitality industry. It was exhausting but the results were not bad: although we were late starters, we overtook our peers in almost every aspect to slowly become the top hotel brand in China....

The Increasing Workforce Diversity Requires New Skills for Leaders and Their Employees    Over the last eight years we’ve noticed a dramatic shift in our clientele. Our firm trains companies and individuals in presentation and communication skills. This shift in our clients’ demographics, which includes Fortune 500 companies, has necessitated us...

As business leaders, we understand the importance of creating a healthy work environment for our employees. At least one-third of our days are dedicated to the roles we play in our professional lives and work often bleeds into more of our personal lives than we anticipate. Particularly as leaders, we...

In the wake of the death of George Floyd and others by police, individuals, corporations, and high-profile donors raised millions of dollars for the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement was founded in 2013 following the acquittal of the killer of Trayvon Martin and developed into a global, decentralized network...

This is not your father’s keynote. You may be an experienced public speaker, but virtual is different, especially if it’s “the big one:” the speech of this quarter, this year, or a lifetime. Perhaps you are the keynote speaker at your now-virtual annual conference, a main presenter at a big...

As with the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution, the global scientific discourse is marked by the advent of technological revolutions, especially Internet, that has now grown to become a colossal social space, a vital element of which is the nature of this technology and the ways in which it...

Too often, we see the negative instead of the positive possibilities that are coming out of a challenging period. A focus on the bad news is particularly the case as we anticipate the post-COVID-19 recovery for the economy and its impact on men and women. We read a lot about...

If you’re a developer, chances are you come across open-source software. At the moment, there are nearly 200,000 ongoing open-source projects around the globe. These projects range from the simple to the incredibly complex. Some projects are one-person shows, while others have thousands of developers who work for and/or with...