CEO Agenda

After nearly one month of video conferences and remote meetings from home, you know better than to have dogs barking or toilets flushing in the background.  Suddenly, we’re all “TV” reporters and anchors – seen by all as a talking head floating in a video box. Just like the people...

When you run a business, you will want to make sure you do what you can to keep your business safe and running as successfully as possible. There are many ways that this can be done, of course, some are easier than others. In this article, we will discuss some...

While it is a generally accepted wisdom that every business strategy will at some point fail, and that every company must occasionally re-imagine itself to remain relevant and thrive, this time it’s different. All at once, every company must now adapt to dramatic and rapidly changing circumstances. One of the...

The COVID-19 crisis has upended businesses around the world, prompting many organizations to shutter their physical locations and have employees work remotely. This, of course, has changed the way people perform their jobs and introduced complications. If you’re a business owner or leader, you may be wondering how you can...

Call me a serial entrepreneur and I’ll take it as a compliment. Since 2000 I’ve founded three companies – I’ve been a C-Suite executive at all three, and a CMO at a fourth, and these experiences have taught me a lot about communication, both internal and external. But what I...

Last Tuesday I ventured into the supermarket with my 11and 16-year old sons, Carter and Flynn. Fifteen minutes in and I could feel my anxiety levels rising as I absorbed the panic around me.  Flynn became increasingly vocal about why people were buying more than they needed – “Why can’t...

Where’s your phone? Are you on it right now? I bet it’s within arms reach. Your smart phone is an essential business tool which can significantly reduce the amount of time many work tasks would otherwise take. However, the proliferation of portable devices affords you nonstop exposure to a stream...

With technological advancements in recent years, more people than ever are choosing to work from home. What was once but fantasy is now a reality, and people all around the world are able to get their work done on the run. Remote working has completely changed the way businesses operate,...

As the COVID-19 Pandemic spreads into every American community, a leader of a non-profit instructed his people “to act more like a start-up.” Like most non-profits, his organization was conservative and slow moving. However, at a time when the tendency is to be cautious this contrarian leader directed his people...

Let’s face it. Workplaces revolve around alpha males. Most large organizations have been created over the decades by men for men. This shows up in all sorts of work practices, such as the qualities that are looked for in recruitment, the way power is measured, the way meetings are run,...