CEO Agenda

As long as people don't know the PROFIT nor the CAPITAL, the YIELD is in the air. Many of the officially presented yield figures are of no use. The same applies mutatis mutandis also to derivative key figures. Financial ratio analysis often lacks evidence. Don't believe any net profit figure,...

When given a choice, most leaders would prefer an economic climate that offered smooth sailing or, better yet, a high tide. Realistically, though, we know there will be storms to weather. March 2020 created a unique time in history when all business leaders were in the same boat, weathering the...

Back in 2019, demonstrating your company’s commitment to supporting environmental priorities was relatively straightforward. You might have made the executive decision to retrofit your office building to suit green-building standards or, if such an investment was out of reach, switch to energy-efficient appliances and solar energy. You could have led...

Economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic has resulted in an uneven year for small to mid-sized businesses. Some verticals, such as e-commerce and grocery stores, have thrived in the stay-at-home environment. Others, like restaurants and the hospitality industry, have experienced drops in income despite their fundamentals remaining strong. And still...

Many will be familiar with the well versed saying, “Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast”, right? Coined by the late Peter Drucker at the turn of this century, Drucker was absolutely right to call out the importance of getting the organizational culture right. He wasn’t suggesting that strategy wasn’t important but...

In 2013 Aileen Lee invented the term “Unicorn” to refer to startup organizations with investor valuations of over $1 billion. Lee, a founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, was preparing an internal report when she came up with the moniker. A summary of the report was published by TechCrunch,...

As strange as it may sound 2021 is expected to be full of people with expectations. It is regarded that one out of seven people suffers from addictions related to substances in the United States. But how many people are addicted to work? Apart from the fact that overdoing at...

“Happy New year” shouted the CEO of a middle market manufacturing company on his year-end Zoom call to employees. And for a moment there was pure joy, then a silence, followed by a collective gulp. No doubt history will record the many haunting echoes of a 2020 Auld Lang Syne...

Whenever you hear something repeated, it feels more true when you hear it repeated. In other words, repetition makes any statement seem more true. So anything you hear will feel more true each time you hear it again. Do you see what I did there? Each of the three sentences...

Imagine for a moment that you are a professional athlete. You play at the highest level, yet you want to become even better than you already are… but you have hit a plateau. Chances are you aren’t going to break through that barrier using the same coach and training routines...