CEO Advisory

I’m typically a true optimist. I look at the glass half-full and do my best to see the good in every situation.  If I stare at the glass long enough, however, the water will eventually evaporate, and it won’t be half-full anymore. I love to focus on what’s good, but...

Traditionally, we expect women to be warm, kind, gentle, and understanding while we expect men to be tough, competitive, assertive and competent. We associate women with nurturing, support and lower status roles while we associate men with power, authority and higher status. We like women and respect men. While these...

The Covid-19 pandemic has created need on a tremendous global scale. While the philanthropic efforts of individuals make a big difference during these times, businesses also possess great power and resources to help those in need. For that reason, it’s more important than ever for companies large and small, to...

Businesses big and small have been pushed to their limits as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. In April ASIC reported hundreds of businesses had applied to be deregistered with many going bankrupt. In an attempt to keep business and the economy alive the Government issued stimulus packages, tax relief,...

Why Congress must pass the COVID-19 Peoples’ New Deal before their summer recess. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the United States, and tens of thousands of lives are at imminent risk. Thus far, the federal government’s response has been nothing less than a catastrophic failure of short-sighted inaction—despite the...

By now you’ve surely heard the statistics about the number of internet-connected devices expected to be in operation in the coming years. An often-cited Cisco report predicts that number will be 75 billion by 2025, stating, “IoT devices function in an entire ecosystem of technology advancements – technologies that will...

Directions are something many of us have taken for granted until mid-March when the pandemic hit.  Agency communications professionals are used to giving directions to navigate clients through strategies and programs that deliver results. Today, these directions are changing by the day, and in some cases by the minute. And...

Knowledge is firstly accumulated by creating new knowledge from organizational intellectual capital and acquiring knowledge from external environments. This knowledge exchange with external business partners develops innovative environments that can enable leaders to creating a more innovative climate in companies. This knowledge process enhances the capabilities of leaders to play...

The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting all of us with deep challenges to our habitual ways of approaching problems.  For instance, do I meet my obligations by going back to the workplace as usual or do I support my family by staying totally at home? That question parallels the work versus...

Six months ago (which now feels like six years ago), 50 Fortune 500 executives and successful entrepreneurs reported in a study that the pressures they were facing were more intense than ever. Since then, the COVID-19 crisis has intensified the volume, variety and pace of these pressures, exponentially. And, it...