CEO Insights

“Digital transformation.” “Digital strategy.” “Think digitally.”  What do they really mean? What do they really imply for you and for your organization?  Do you know why you are doing these things and what your organization intends to accomplish?  Does your organization need both a digital strategy and a business strategy? ...

5 Factors to Organizational & Personal Success Tomorrow, it Never Changed by Dr. Jeffrey Magee. Building an organization to greatness and sustaining that greatness is like building any great structure; it starts with a proven blueprint. The same is true for crafting the trajectory to personal achievement and sustained success....

I am a CEO of a private middle market company.  Like many other business leaders, I struggle with my role in the often-divisive conversations on racial equity and social justice.  I am CEO to all our employees and not just those who are Black. The challenges also seem so large...

Just like it’s a seller’s market in real estate, it’s an employee’s market in the workplace. With that in mind, providing basic wellness plans and flex schedules is no longer going to cut it if you want to build an extraordinary employee base. According to IES’ Sara Jensen, securing top...

It is the most important geopolitical meeting of the year. Joe Biden will receive German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House this Thursday, July 15, 2021. It will be the Chancellor's first visit to Washington since the Biden administration took office. Merkel arrives with the issue that she will...

Public relations (PR) is an important component to any business marketing plan.  Typically, a marketing plan has three parts: marketing, advertising and PR.  All three parts need to have a strategy that complements the other. The purpose of having a public relations plan is it helps you outline the key...

Lars Lehne of Incubeta argues that the most critical changes in business are the ones we made before 2020 . I'm not one to make big bold predictions. I've been playing this game too long to not know better. If there's one thing being a business leader in tech teaches...

We didn’t really have a formal ‘culture’ for the first…many years of our existence.   I had a sort of sense of what I wanted us to look/feel/behave like, but it was never committed to paper, never repeated out loud/with any frequency, and as such was basically left to the interpretation...

Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges¹ estimate that fewer than 10% of organizations have clear, written values and many take the work on values no further than words. To create an impact, core values need to extend into the day-to-day fabric of the organization and be a reference for decisions and...

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted our world’s economy and the ways we work and socialize; it also accelerated the rate at which we develop and adopt new technologies. Though, perhaps one of the biggest tangential effects of the pandemic is around the future of the workplace. If there is one...