CEO Insights

Productivity is the gamechanger in terms of improving your performance yet so many articles skirt around the subject by discussing efficiency vs effectiveness as if they were a set of mutually exclusive options rather than complementary concepts which are in fact two sides of the same coin. The economic definition...

Over the years, I’ve seen many promising partnerships collapse because of internal conflicts at one or more of the partners. In fact, I would argue that lack of internal alignment is the number one reason partnerships fail, either while they are being built or, even worse, during implementation. In a...

We can quit our jobs or our degrees, but we can’t quit our life purpose. So our real task in life is to discover our unique life purpose. The challenge in finding our purpose is that we are programmed to continually look for the linear and simple answer. But often...

Countless companies struggle to find the right software solution to meet their varied needs. The result is a tangled mess of software, spreadsheets, and systems. To find the right software for your business, you have to consider what you’ll need as you grow rather than what you need at this...

What is free time anyway? Free means release from captivity or acting as you wish. Time is a plan or schedule of when something should happen. Free time means acting as you wish when something should happen. It’s almost an oxymoron like “working vacation”. If I said to someone, “you...

If your company is stuck in the minor leagues, your hiring practices could be to blame. Unlike in the competitive world of professional sports, organizations often post generic job descriptions, hire without a “tryout,” and are too slow to make cuts. By shifting your mindset to hiring only “A” players...

It was the best of times—then, suddenly, it was the worst. Nothing quite like a global pandemic to recast the lives of billions. As we look forward to a return to some form of normal, fully knowing it will have to be a very different normal, we have collectively clung...

Value in business today comes from who you know and how you connect with them. These connections build whole new forms of capital—personal, social, intellectual, operational, reputational, and, of course, financial. When we connect with people at work, we feel like “we’re in it together.” Great connection provides a sense...

The modern high performing leader is one who understands the power of a work tribe as a vehicle to create great change and with velocity. As a corporate leader, are you a locust or a goose?  Hint: you want to be a goose! When they travel to find new food...

Our culture is enslaved to a cult of overwork. “Busy” is a lifestyle. Boundaries between life and work are blurred, if not abandoned altogether. High performance has become synonymous with long hours. We’ve bought into the Hustle Fallacy—the idea that if we crank a little harder, we can push past...