CEO Advisory

Accenture, Facebook, HubSpot, Microsoft, and T-Mobile ranked in the top 50 large companies for women in the U.S., according to a new online survey by career-data company Comparably. The report does not assign individual rankings beyond the top 50 groupings, the survey defines large companies as those having 500 employees...

Your loudest cheerleader during your winning moments is your ego. It relishes your successes and triumphs, and it wants you to revel in them, too, self-satisfied that you are the cause of everything good in the world. The world is divided into winners and losers, and you are a winner,...

Austin ranks first among the best U.S. cities to start a business in 2020, according to Inc. magazine, followed by Salt Lake City, Durham, Denver, and Boise. Also ranked below Boise were San Francisco; Charleston, San Diego, and Phoenix, respectively. Miami rounded out the top 10 best U.S. cities to...

Europe has the credit of being a birthplace for western music, and evolution of many other forms of music as time passed by. Celtic music, Gregorian chants, and every other primordial kind of music had their development in this unique land. The place also is known for its breathtaking cultural...

Digital presents many opportunities but also heightened risks. Risks vary to those in traditional business as issues can be rapidly exacerbated due to the scale of technology. Organisations run the risk of being digitally dumb or numb. Dumb being a poorly thought through the endeavour. Numb being ignorant of the...

We already see algorithms and hear the headlines about artificial intelligence (AI), yet so many senior managers remain skeptical and are ignoring the issue. Whilst the robot or cyborg may immediately come to mind, neither will emerge as a single change to immediately replace millions of jobs, rather this is...

Steve Jobs once said, “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?” It’s an admirable sentiment, but as Jobs himself showed, there are many different ways to put a dent in the universe, and almost everyone does so in his or her own...

What is wellbeing in an organization? It’s the same as wellbeing for any of us — only on a far larger scale. When we’re feeling well — and that goes for mentally or physically — we’re more motivated, engaged and positively focused. When feeling unwell we tend to be more...

Here’s the reality: employees may truly enjoy the company they’re working for, but a clear majority still have the desire to work offsite part of the time – whether it be for reduced commuting time and costs, more time with family or the option to work more flexible hours. In...

I could almost hear the scoffs and muted laughter as I traversed the stage, asking for their perception of the entertainment industry. I was giving a keynote to an audience filled with public company CEOs and investors about how Hollywood could help their business. I enjoyed letting the stereotype of...