CEO Agenda

Here in the United States, last month’s Super Bowl is long over. Its headline stories have been told and retold, its heroes decided, and its lessons have already taken back to locker rooms and front offices for next year’s planning. Sometimes, however, it’s the stories that get overlooked that impart...

What if we could redesign our lives to maximize every one of the 168 hours of the week for our families, selves, and workplaces? I thrive on solving complex problems, and overbearing constriction on how we live and work is what needs fixing now. Time is our most precious commodity...

As global competition increases and technology creates opportunities for disruptive customer experiences, brand managers at the world’s top companies are leaning more on design thinking than ever before to maintain industry leadership. Below, we will explore this strategy and outline how it can be deployed to create great customer experiences....

CEOs are known for being extremely ambitious. They are constantly pushing themselves to get more done, produce better results, and reach new heights. This relentless drive is the fuel that enables them to accomplish incredible things. Kevin Ford, CEO of Calian Group, a publicly-traded company that provides innovative solutions for...

The pandemic forced leaders to reconcile with the need for effective hybrid and remote team management strategies, including in performance evaluations. Research has shown the benefits of moving away from large-scale quarterly or annual performance reviews. Instead, systematic, frequent, and brief reviews focused on task performance, effective feedback and coaching,...

It is pretty powerful that we have the choice to make this year whatever we want it to be.  There are things that aren’t in our control, but the good news is we all have the choice to choose and influence how this year looks both personally and professionally. Like...

Do you think this social and psychological phenomenon is new? Do you think employers and businesses have blindly neglected this potential problem and issue for so many years, that it finally happened?   Do you think that this social and business evolution is long overdue? In the US news over the...

Of the many calamities sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the toughest lessons CEOs and business leaders have learned centers around the shakiness of modern supply chains. By mid-2021, just when many businesses were putting pandemic woes behind them, the promising trends toward recovery were squashed. Supply chains quickly...

Planning and forecasting became virtually untenable and often downright unreliable for sales professionals in the last two years, dramatically increasing the reliance and importance of planning that provides real-time insights. According to a recent BARC survey, 89% of respondents claimed that the predictability of events impacting business was low to...

One of the greatest lessons I learned in the military was that everyone is in it together. If the U.S. military goes to war and wins, we all win. The teams that fight directly win, and the teams that never come close to the battlefield win. If we lose, we...