CEO Agenda

Digital transformation has been a hot topic in recent years. But it’s not without significant risk. The major consulting firms cite success rates below 30%. It also comes at a cost: a recent Harvard Business Review study found that 69% of the $1.3 trillion spent on digital transformation last year...

When it comes to home surge protection, many people feel installing a power strip with the capability is enough to defend their devices. However, this approach overlooks some key fundamentals. Here are five things to know about home surge protection to help keep your electronics safe. Causes of Power Surges...

Humans are lazy, impatient and afraid of change, which enabled us to build the cities and societies we enjoy today; however, those hard-wired attributes often cause those of us in business to reach for binary solutions to non-binary problems. A sampling of binary solutions we may have heard in executive...

The secret to success is perhaps that there is no secret. Observation of successful people can give some insight as to what differentiates them from the crowd since their habits are on display for all to see. These could be the result of natural tendencies, acquired by osmosis from a...

The phrase “here there be dragons” is an aphorism that has come to define general fears of the unknown, based on an ancient cartographer’s annotation to maps reflecting the earliest explorations of our globe. When mariners of epochs past would reach the end of their wanderings and the known world,...

Over the past 70 years, the workplace has undergone a complete transformation. We use laptops and emails in place of typewriters and letters. We eschew bulky, dusty file folders for cloud storage. We text and call, leverage flextime, and can work from virtually anywhere. But for all the progress we’ve...

In the early days of a startup, entrepreneurs and founders are often strapped for time and focused only on finding talent with the skills to get the job done. All too often, diversity becomes an afterthought. This is due, in large part, to the fact that human beings are most...

The CEOs and executives I work with are financially successful, run profitable companies and have professional mastery, i.e. expertise in one or more of functional areas such as finance, marketing, engineering, sales, sciences, and operations. They experience the “success paradox” – the skills that made them successful are no longer...

What do you get when technologists are just as passionate about problem-solving as they are about the latest tech advancements and devices? Finger Food Advanced Technology Group. In the past decade, Finger Food has created over 200 products with results that are real, tangible, and groundbreaking. The group comprises the...

By now, business owners and entry-level employees alike have heard the hype about remote work. Getting your work done somewhere that isn’t the office (home, a local coffee shop, a co-working space) is on the rise, and benefits like increased satisfaction and improved attrition rates abound. Not every business that...