CEO Agenda

In just 12 months, we collectively embarked on a remote working experiment. The needs of B2B and B2C customers also changed overnight. Individuals, teams, leaders, and entire organizations no longer had the option of reverting to their default processes and strategies. The world had changed forever, and a more inclusive...

I often hear leaders say that you have to push through or grind it out everyday in order to produce desired results. It’s like the 10,000 hour rule has been taken to the extreme in today's workplace and leaders are pushing teams to work as many hours as possible. Unfortunately,...

Even prior to the COVIID outbreak that has seen so many businesses forced to reimagine how they do business in a socially distanced world, e-commerce was exploding in Australia, with Statista estimating the Australian e-commerce space (local market) rising to a stratospheric $30 billion in 2021: up from $20 billion...

On occasion, CEOs will tell me that they were once part of a CEO peer advisory group or forum and eventually quit because they were not receiving any value. To be fair, it may not have been the right group for them, or maybe it was a group that was...

The pandemic continues to weigh on the US economy. However, with a recently-passed third-round stimulus, more vaccines being distributed and states beginning to reopen, we expect a significant economic rebound quicker than originally anticipated. We believe we will see meaningful economic pick-up start late in the first quarter and continue...

This month, we marked the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 global pandemic. And, as we continue to celebrate Women's History Month and the many achievements of women around the globe, it's all the more important to remember that, especially in 2020, those achievements came at a higher cost. Women at...

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted life on a global scale, causing its own problems and exacerbating those that already existed. Citizens and their governments around the world are facing over-burdened health systems, alarming hospitalization and death rates, unemployment, disruption to education, loneliness, grief and anxiety, to name just a few...

We are losing the cybersecurity war, and it’s not because our equipment isn’t high-tech enough. The real reason is both simpler and more difficult to solve: our technical employees lack the people and leadership skills needed to communicate effectively. Technical teams often lack the inner confidence to innovate outside the...

Three personal stories. Three takeaways. Clarity To make a long (painful) story short, I typically ran the mile in junior high school. At the last meet of the year in 1975, however, I was asked to fill in as the third leg on our undefeated one-mile relay team.  No problem,...

Marking a new dawn for the United States, President Biden recently revoked the diversity training ban and replaced it with a new executive order on advancing equity for underserved communities. This comes as employment inequality for the underrepresented workforce spirals as a by-product of the pandemic. Women accounted for 100...