CEO Advisory

Employees are your company’s greatest asset; you win or lose as an organization based on what your team members can produce, market, sell, ship, and support. It makes smart business sense, then, to prioritize taking care of that asset. In 20 years of coaching executives to career fulfillment, impact, and...

If you’re wondering whether your company should incorporate artificial intelligence into its technology strategy, you’re significantly behind the curve.  It should be clear at this point that AI is transforming businesses around the world. It’s now a necessary tool for almost any company, in any industry, that wants to thrive...

Your legal practice, like any other service business, needs deliberate strategies for finding, acquiring, and keeping clients. Your legal intake process is a strategy that involves everything you do from the time a potential client first contacts you about a case until they become a paying client. Having a reliable...

In 1973, Xerox developed the first PC — the Alto, complete with a mouse, graphical display, icons, ethernet networking, and scalable type. So why do we still think of Xerox as ‘the photocopier people’ rather than the birthplace of modern computing? Because they failed to commercialise their new product, allowing...

When I started my career at The National Institutes of Health, I wanted to discover what makes some people more successful than others. But a year later, I realized we were only studying illness and dysfunction.  What more we could learn if we studied Highly Successful People (HSPs)? Are they...

Growth is one of the greatest and most vexing challenges all businesses face. A challenge I encountered many times in my 31 years in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a Venture Capitalist and serving on the board of directors of 21 companies. A challenge business leaders must meet...

Being a millionaire by 30? Sounds incredible? Well, it is certainly ambitious but not an impossible idea. In fact, there are so many examples of bright, young individuals who have managed to increase their net worth through smart practices and habits. And, if you’re serious about this goal, then you may...

Another rival to Elon Musk's Starlink has arrived in town, Amazon's Project Kuiper. Earlier this month, Amazon sent two satellites into space for trials of its Project Kuiper satellite-based web program. This initiative declared in 2019, will go head-to-head with Elon Musk's Starlink, which is already well ahead of the...

In recent years, the concerns around packaging waste have been steadily growing. Even prior to the covid-19 pandemic, the discussion around big brands producing a lot of waste, including packaging, was gaining worldwide attention. Then, the pandemic changed shopping habits of many people for good, creating the e-commerce boom. With...

Daniel Křetínský, the Czech billionaire, has gone on an acquisition run in France recently, with 3 new investments this year alone. The supermarket group Casino recently reached a settlement to stave off insolvency, granting Kretinsky's consortium majority ownership of its shares. He holds investments in France (at least five), Britain...