CEO Advisory

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous -- always on, everywhere. With two-thirds of the world’s population on mobile, these devices have become the most personal and powerful digital channel for people to interact with each other and directly with brands. Users are turning to their devices to search for information, purchase...

How often while working on a task or project have you thought, ‘it’s not done yet’, ‘it’s not good enough,’ or ‘I couldn’t share that…it has to be better’? We may think what we’re working on isn’t ‘good enough… yet.’ Not good enough to share it, send it, ship it,...

Business owners have a lot of numbers, metrics, and ratios to worry about. One that tends to get overlooked is business credit score—a number that represents how creditworthy your business is to lenders. A business credit score doesn’t factor into many financial equations. On the surface, having a high (or...

Self-employment has been flourishing over the past decade. People are more confident to sell their ideas and hit the road to success in this era of internet and technology. With some basic skills like how to create a website and how to market your products online, people can showcase their...

Traditional top-down approaches to managing change have been proven not to work, especially in an age where hierarchical organisations are being replaced by flatter, open, inclusive organisations and agile teams. In ‘The Irrational Side of Change Management’ by Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller, a McKinsey survey of 3,199 executives around...

Ever wonder how two people who are evaluating the exact same person or situation can reach such wildly different conclusions?  This is not only imperative for a CEO to understand, but also essential for all of us when it comes to making sense of today’s complex world. Also, when it...

If you’re in a position where you need to influence the decisions and actions of staff, suppliers or customers, then you may have noticed that ‘just being yourself’ doesn’t work that well for everyone. While you may have a handful of people that are influenced by your approach, you’ll also...

Weddings are a lavish affair. Good planning and good investment are both prerequisites for a memorable wedding. But that is not all that there is to it. A wedding is a lot about symbolism and the white wedding gown plays an important role. Relax! This is not another article about...

Many years ago I remember finishing the presentation of a corporate brand campaign to the CEO of a large conglomerate. They needed to update and greatly expand buyers’ perceptions of how their company could address entire workflows, not just build an endless stream of disconnected point products. Three things were...

Four Ways to Minimize the Risk:  The unprecedented onslaught on tax havens in recent years combined with the adverse publicity given to some large multinationals for paying “obscenely low” levels of tax has had a serious result – tax authorities worldwide are under pressure to plug tax loopholes and raise...