CEO Advisory

How Remote Work is Shaping Enterprise Tech Adoption Up until the recent decade, remote work was an uncommon concept. In fact, many people viewed it as an unproductive structure for large companies. It was common practice to think that office chatter and similar work hours led to a more productive...

How often have you heard people mutter, “Oh, I’m not a creative type”? Perhaps you’ve thought this yourself. This is a falsehood because to be human is be hardwired to be creative. To be a phenomenal lawyer, manager, doctor, engineer, or plumber requires immense amounts of creativity. Creativity is the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it some of the biggest challenges CEOs have faced in their entire careers. It has impacted businesses around the world in every industry. No matter the situation, we are clearly operating in unprecedented times, and therefore, I believe it’s a great opportunity and time...

The world has been dealt an unpredictable hand and has drastically changed in the past four months. Fear ensued from the spread of COVID-19. Sheltering in place is mandated on the national level.  Companies look to sustain business growth remotely. CEOs are daily watching the volatility of the stock market....

An excerpt from the 2019 book “Sandworm,” by WIRED senior editor Andy Greenberg, reads like a whodunit of sorts, in that a crime -- the hacking of the IT infrastructure at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Seoul, South Korea -- was carried out by unknown cybercriminals. Spoiler alert: The Russians...

Recently Poland was ranked third among the best countries to invest in post-COVID ‘new normal’ reality by CEOWORLD Magazine. So a high ranking position is a good starting point to make some prognosis concerning the Polish economy. These remarks are made from the perspective of an international M&A lawyer, for...

Those of us who were not born with iPhones remember this book by Thomas Wolf, and younger folks may have seen the movie. The story is one of a fall from privilege and grace of Sherman (Tom Hanks in the movie) – a bond trader in Manhattan during the roaring...

A variety of events can change the business landscape and serve as a strategic inflection point to trigger organizational change. These factors range from changing economic conditions and business expansion or contraction to new competitive dynamics and the pursuit of innovation. At no point in recent history have more factors...

True or false: The CFO is the “numbers” leader in the C-Suite. If you said true, you are correct – but only partially. Today’s CFOs play a broader role in organizations than ever before. That’s good for them – and for the organizations they serve. In a recent global Accenture survey...

A few months ago, I asked my daughters to read a few chapters from the manuscript of my new book.  One piece of feedback I received was about a section in the Introduction, where I defined some key terms. My daughter Kristin liked that these definitions created a shared understanding...