CEO Advisory

The past eight months have been filled with anxiety and uncertainty around the globe. The Covid-19 pandemic forced leaders to make decisions under tremendous stress. As there were no blueprints for a situation like Covid-19, CEOs had to navigate mainly by focusing on their current abilities and personal characteristics. As...

Look at the world around you. I mean literally, go to a supermarket to buy tomatoes. Do you notice that almost all of them have the same color, size, and smell? It is very convenient for the industry to have products that are all the same. This way, they can...

Few will dispute that these chaotic and calamitous times mean corporate executives face some of the toughest challenges of their careers. More companies are recognizing and developing an often-overlooked in-house resource—their boards of directors—to help address new and emerging threats. With the interconnectedness of today’s world and the global events...

My dad went to the pet shop and purchased 15 goldfish over the summer. He doesn’t have an aquarium; he’s never been into ‘fish,’ but he thought his grandkids (who happened to be spending a lot of time at his house over the summer months while out of school) would...

After 18 years of owning and operating a marketing and web design firm, I ran into a problem. I knew that our industry was changing, and that some of our current opportunities may not be there in the future. With the rise of new technologies, custom websites were far less...

Most folks who read my books and articles know that I am a big believer in the importance of returning common decency back into our leadership approach. With the global pandemic continuing to wreak havoc on many people’s emotional states, decency is more important now than ever before. Indeed, working...

If leading through exponential change feels relentless right now, it’s time to get in front of change fatigue, writes Ciara Lancaster. Revelations of an absence of duty of care from organisations have surfaced.  A joint Australian HR Institute (AHRI) and The Wellbeing Lab study found that, “Over a third of...

Growing up it always seemed like the majority of people around me knew something I did not. They were more successful than me, yet it did not seem like they were working harder than I was – if anything, it was the opposite scenario. In hindsight, there are a few...

COVID-19 has forced companies around the world to be agile and shift quickly. For many, that shift has come in the form of digital transformation efforts. According to a global McKinsey report, the share of products and services that had been partially or fully digitized by December 2019 was only 35%....

Overload. Overwhelm. Fatigue. These are just a few of the words I have heard people use to describe their work and life.  But the number one word that’s come up more recently, I hadn’t heard before – relentless. People are moving hard and fast. They are delivering more than ever,...