CEO Agenda

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...

Are you familiar with the theory of Maslow regarding the pyramid of human needs? The idea attends to set the foundations of human behavior across the years. It faces the needs as a chain where each person has to fulfill one need in order to move on to the next...

The French novelist Marcel Proust famously wrote that:  “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”  A new book, VisuaLeadership: Leveraging The Power of Visual Thinking is Leadership and in Life, (Post Hill Press, 2020) written by Todd Cherches, delivers sound...

After almost a year of pandemic-related upheaval, many business owners have taken their eye off the ball. An understandable offense given the stubborn severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. But businesses still need to market, consumers need to buy products, and there are repairs and capital improvements to be made. With...