CEO Agenda

The challenge to provide employees a real work-life balance has reached a new high during the Coronavirus pandemic. The most successful business models nowadays not only deliver customer and shareholder value, but also employee value. This topic is already on many US CEO desks. Burnouts, chronic stress, and even mental...

Leaders in our workplaces have changed as the Millennial generation floods in and bosses get younger. Millennials now make up the largest chunk of the workforce and, according to a recent report by PwC, millennials will be 75% of workers by 2025. Emerging leaders today are younger than previous generations...

Our images of the perfect leader, team, or organization are flawed, most notably when it comes to disagreement. Almost universally, we regard disagreement as bad, something to be avoided, severely limited, or at the extremes, punished. An affinity for order drives this view. Predictable processes, roles, and interactions, we are...

Leaders succeed through influencing people and outcomes. If you want to inspire followership, you need to lead authentically, curating the right team culture as well as implementing strategy and ensuring good governance. To create a culture of trust, a leader needs to be conscious of their leadership purpose, use courage...

A few days ago, I delivered a workshop (virtually) for a Vistage Chief Executive Group in Colorado Springs. Randy Welsch, the Vistage Chair who led the group, started the meeting with a short inclusion exercise. He broke everyone into small groups to answer four questions: Who was the best leader...

Influencers enjoy large audiences and a broad reach with the message they distribute. It appears obvious how they attained a million or more followers for some influencers while others are not so obvious. No influencer begins an influencer. How do they do it? Why do some rise to the top...

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...