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You probably heard the advice that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” That phrase is a misleading myth at best and actively dangerous at worst. Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. ...

Two thousand twenty was a year most CEOs would love to forget.  Most of us long for everything from consumer behavior to employee relations to get back to “normal.”  For better or worse, turning back the clock just is not an option.  For all the volatility and unpredictability we faced...

While businesses play out their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies within their various national and international ecosystems, an often-overlooked dimension is how innovative regulation and governmental support can unlock AI’s full potential.  AI promises to have the same disruptive effect on today’s global economy as electricity in the 19th century, and...

Opportunities can exist even during testing times. The pandemic dealt a body blow to most businesses, with world cities reeling from lockdowns, subdued demand, supply constraints, and disruptions in cross-border trade. Willingly or unwillingly, people are constrained within the four walls of their house. Few services, however, witnessed a change...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused great losses to many firms. At the same time, many employees lost their jobs while others had salary cuts. During all this suffering period a new study conducted by the Institute for Policy Studies showed that CEO salaries increased even in firms that had huge profit...

Greek family businesses try to get over the difficulties that the Covid-19 pandemic has created by setting priorities similar to their global peers. Such priorities are the diversification and expansion of their activities, the digitalization and introduction of new technologies, the evolving and new business thinking, sustainability and focus on...

Chief executives and other senior level business decision-makers aren’t really all that different from the people who keep their companies running efficiently day-in and day-out. They, too, were kept awake in the night during the pandemic, and with many of the same worries – but different.  A big one? Their...

Meetings can be the most effective way to foster great communication throughout a company. Unfortunately, meetings are frequently viewed as a waste of time or as a distraction from getting real work done. I have talked to many leaders in different industries; almost universally, they saw a benefit in having...

In my 32 years, I’ve moved 34 times. I had three kids by 26. I left foster care as a teen parent, and put myself through university and into a career without the safety of family support.  I’ve moved cities, left jobs, started businesses and coped with parental abandonment, divorce,...

Human beings are Jekyll-and-Hyde creatures. More than any other animal, we excel at collaboration. We make friends, we form teams, we launch start-up businesses, we found countries. Yet social life is also full of conflict with our fellow homo sapiens. We lie, we cheat, we steal, we kill. What’s wrong...