CEO Agenda

Kerry*, the owner of a creative company, called me in because she was having great difficulty with staff turnover. Projects were getting delayed; details falling through the cracks; remaining staff morale was decreasing. As Kerry and I spoke, she also told me that her family was pressuring her into planning...

I walked into the staff meeting 100s of times – this time as the director. This was going to be different.  Now I was at the head of the table. The one folks looked to for many things. How would I differentiate myself in the leader role? I’d been at...

Crises have impacted human existence for centuries. In recent times several economic crises have made and lost individual and collective fortunes and have profoundly shaped local and world economies, societies, and the communities we reside in. Resorting to a myopic view of a crisis runs the risk of overlooking the...

In today’s world as we witness modernization, most of the time when people touch upon the topic of fitness, they move the discourse towards physical fitness and divert attention from what is more important, that is, mental fitness. Even to this day, there is an enormous amount of population that...

Even as some economies are cautiously reopening since COVID-19 upended life as we know it, companies are not rushing to send employees back to their office buildings. Google, Facebook, Capital One, Twitter, and Zillow are among a growing number extending their work-from-home (WFH) policies far beyond required time periods (indeed,...

Leadership development expert John Spence recently surveyed CEOs worldwide, of companies large and small, to ask them to share lessons they have learned during the ongoing pandemic. “Empathy and compassion are potentially the most important traits of a leader,” said one CEO. “Every minute you spend putting your team first...

Although this was written pre the Covid-19 pandemic, the 21st-century themes have held true, if anything the trends have accelerated as we all adapt to the post coronavirus world. Have you noticed that some of the share market stalwarts and mainstays, like BHP and CBA, haven’t been the best money-makers...

There is no shortage of lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the economic and health adjustments we are all scrambling to make, a deluge of new challenges that have yet to be considered still looms around the corner. As we navigate our way through these...

The coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic has significantly affected merger and acquisition (“M&A”) activity worldwide. Even in the first quarter of 2020 compared with 2019, M&A activity was down 25%. The market downturn and related financial crisis caused by COVID-19 have further decreased M&A activity. Many companies delayed or scrapped deals entirely...

As the rate of COVID19 infections begins to flatten, states are considering how they will lift restrictions in order to restart society and business. Some states including Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina are moving forward with opening retail businesses with social distancing restrictions. Others like California and New York say...