CEO Advisory

Should you be signing a new lease if you’re uncertain about the economy? Is it smart to change jobs because you might get furloughed? One woman we spoke with is considering a separation from her spouse. Being quarantined together day in and day out has raised serious issues in their...

Part of schooling typically involves writing some type of “report” on the many books we are obligated to read. Many of us cringe at the aspect while others strive to become the alter-author of the book through their report. Leaders organically fall into the latter with a twist – let...

Companies must adopt a recovery position in the Post COVID-19 black swan based on the jolt effects felt by retailers around the world in order to prepare new sets of contingency planning measures and cope with the looming signs of uncertainty. This entails, on one hand, reexamining their survival strategies,...

Executives know that discontinuity exists at all levels of product and services and they do not want to find themselves caught off guard and become obsolete. To remain competitive, executives realize that they have to quickly create and share new ideas and knowledge to be more responsive to market changes....

I recently came across a 1984 article written about Mervin J. Kelly, the legendary American physicist whose career with Bell Labs spanned 23 years and multiple positions, from Director of Research to Chairman of the Board and everything in between. Described as a motivator who asked the right questions and...

In 2019, Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report found that only 41 percent of C-level respondents believed that employees within their own organisations were ready to meet their leadership requirements. Here, Professor Bertrand Meyer, Provost and Professor of Software Engineering at Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), gives his view on...

Most Millennials might not have been working during the last recession, but they’ve grown up feeling its effects. Now, they’re standing on the edge of another huge economic slump — only this time, they’re shouldering a lot more responsibility. The COVID-19 crisis is impacting every industry, and it will transform the way...

Business leaders instinctively know that when there’s a difficult announcement to make, showing a human face makes the best of it. That’s the thought that occurred to me when I saw Boris Johnson announce that he had Coronavirus. He broke the news using some very simple video footage filmed on...

All over the world, companies are working at breakneck speed to adjust and react to the monumental shifts we see in the marketplace and workforce. To survive, companies need to innovate. And fortunately, they already have the right people working within their organization to meet the challenge: entrepreneurial-minded employees brimming...

When you are running a business there are so many things that need to be handled at once. Many business owners work to very busy schedules and this can increase the pressure on certain areas of the business. Managing this effectively is tricky and many people struggle to handle it....