archiveChief Happiness Officer Insider

Any boss can easily imagine themselves to be doing an awesome job when things are going smoothly. The true test comes when things don’t go according to plan. Suppose someone misses a deadline. What should a boss do? Certainly the employee needs to be held accountable. Missed deadlines have real...

Cloud costs now rank second only to payroll on most tech P&Ls and the volatility is increasing quarter by quarter. Your 2026 budget requires a fundamental reset. Last year's cloud assumptions will leave your margins exposed in this new economic reality. To start, AI workloads are fundamentally altering the financial...

Early Life and the Drive to Learn Lesley Beador’s story begins near Lake Tahoe, where the mountains shaped her sense of self. She grew up hiking, skiing, and exploring the outdoors. That connection to nature has stayed with her and continues to influence her work and lifestyle. She showed determination...

Tourism in 2025: A Strategic Economic Force Tourism is more than leisure—it is a global economic engine, influencing GDP, trade, infrastructure, and cultural diplomacy. International tourist arrivals surged across major economies, reflecting both pent-up demand post-pandemic and structural shifts in global mobility. For executives, investors, and policymakers, analyzing where the...

Building on our premise from Part 1, productivity and employee well-being are closely linked, and it was suggested that actions aimed at leveraging peers to achieve sustainable productivity and high performance can also help reduce stress and anxiety at work. Although I did not anticipate this outcome initially, there is...

When I was running operations at a mid-sized residential plumbing outfit just outside Sacramento, I started noticing a pattern we couldn’t ignore. The calls we were missing weren’t random. They were nearly always coming in after hours, and nearly always the ones that would’ve paid the best. One week in...

Jack Truong walked into James Hardie Industries (NYSE:JHX) as CEO in early 2019 and transformed a stagnant building materials company into a growth machine. From January 2019 to January 2022, the building materials manufacturer experienced one of the most dramatic value creation stories in recent memory—only to see much of...

BofA and Merrill Debut Private Market Program for Wealthiest Clients: Bank of America (BofA) and its Merrill Wealth Management arm are expanding their private market footprint with a program aimed squarely at the rarefied tier of investors—those with a net worth of $50 million or more. Dubbed the Alts Expanded Access...

Companies looking to build software fast and at a low cost are turning to AI coding tools for help. Seen as a way to draft full features automatically, generate boilerplate in seconds, and assist developers, these platforms have quickly found their way into enterprise workflows. But this surge comes with...

Musk’s Rich Crown at Risk: Larry Ellison’s Net Worth Is Getting Closer to Elon Musk’s A Billionaire Rivalry Reignited: For over a decade, Elon Musk has epitomized the fusion of innovation, ambition, and staggering wealth creation. His meteoric rise—fueled by Tesla’s electric revolution and SpaceX’s spacefaring ambitions—turned him into the world’s...