CEO Advisory

I once worked for a company president who insisted on opening all mail himself, despite to whom it was addressed, and passing on a copy to the intended recipient only once he cleared it. Just how obsessive did things get? He rerouted all mail and packages. He went through the...

You may ask why you would want to make your small business seem bigger. As a rule, prospects tend to have more confidence in a bigger business as bigger usually translates in their minds into a safer choice. Subconsciously they believe a larger company automatically implies a successful company. Anyone...

Kos is the third largest and second-most populated Dodecanese island after Rhodes. Kos is blessed with a 112km long coastline. The Aegean Sea washes the shores of this exquisite island. Kos is popular among visitors for its beaches. Since most hotels are in Kos Town, the beaches nearby are most...

There is a lot of interest in blockchain. In fact, Deloitte recently surveyed over 1300 Senior Executives around the world and found that 53% see blockchain as a “critical priority” for their organizations. That’s more than half of all Senior Executives describing this as “critical”. Yet women are drastically underrepresented...

As a leader, the question you may be asking yourself either consciously or unconsciously is ‘how can I make my potential count for the most in this world of effort?’ And that is exactly the question you should be asking. In order to become more effective, perhaps it’s important to...

These days it appears that things must be bigger than before – the most-read, the most-shared or the most-talked-about. It’s all about impact; being bigger than big. The problem with this is that smaller actions can appear to lack impact. Anything that isn’t big, bigger or the biggest can seem...

Chances are your company is not a disruptor, but it is facing disruption. This is the situation for almost every CEO. Companies like Uber and Tesla are held up as heroes, but they’re anomalies. The rest of us aren’t disruptors, but we are being disrupted. And this is having a...

Most CEOs have their share of battle scars. They’ve succeeded and they’re failed. I can relate. I’m at an age in my life where I’ve been burned too many times and I no longer want to, nor have the time to waste. That’s why I choose to only do business...

Up means down and down means up — We’ve all had colleagues who make it a practice of denying what we know is real. It happens in politics, science, business and anywhere: people whose beliefs are a million miles away from reality. Bad enough that they distort truths, but they...

Ottawa has been ranked 8th out of the 113 most inclusive cities in the world listed in the first-ever Prosperity and Inclusion City Seal and Awards (PISCA) index. Meanwhile, the top five positions were taken by cities from northern Europe, with Zurich topping the list, followed by Vienna (No. 2),...