CEO Insights

Radical transparency: It’s a philosophy that’s grown in popularity over the years, one that encourages leaders to increase their openness about everything from organizational strategy and processes to financial data. As a CEO, I’ve always viewed true radical transparency as the level you reach when you go beyond what feels...

No one predicted what happened last year. Our vocabulary expanded, our world view was altered, and for many, the way and where we work changed. While some would like to forget 2020 and just move on, wise CEOs know there are rich lessons to be found in challenging and painful...

One of the foundational ways a business continues to experience growth is through the building of trust with its consumer base, employees, leadership, investors, and causal followers. Trust is the difference between making a sale or investing time and financial resources trying to convince consumers to do business with your...

By any standard, last year was as much chilling as it was unexpected. Simultaneously forced to become at-home teachers, caregivers and breadwinners, many working professionals were driven to the brink of despair. However, with vaccines beginning their distribution and administration, there is light at the end of the tunnel. That...

After a long career that included work in private enterprise, co-founding and running an international public relations agency, and leading such non-profits as CARE USA and AARP, my current role is teaching MBA students. Every business school in America, maybe every school of any kind, proclaims that it creates leaders....

“Education is a lifelong process. It is a great amplifier and accelerator. It must help us learn to live sustainably. It must create curiosity and open the minds of students. It must ignite the minds of the students and help them convert information into knowledge.” ―Professor M.S. Rao In this...

The French novelist Marcel Proust famously wrote that:  “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”  A new book, VisuaLeadership: Leveraging The Power of Visual Thinking is Leadership and in Life, (Post Hill Press, 2020) written by Todd Cherches, delivers sound...

Politicians are elected to serve the people of their district, county, state, and country. Great politicians appreciate the honor and authority bestowed upon them to represent their constituents. Good governing requires truth and integrity. When politicians forget these values, the seduction of power becomes a slippery slope toward self-serving, egocentric,...

In a recent media feature I shared reasons and tips around the powerful role authentic leadership plays in businesses. Authenticity, perhaps once perceived somewhat risky, is a trait now respected and revered. There are some cautions to be mindful of stepping comfortably into this space. There’s times leaders are privy...

Should you decide you want to be a leader – whether you have been selected to or not – your apprenticeship as a great follower can provide the foundation for that step. However, the risk in this or any transition is that you have not learned how to lead yourself...