In the Digital Age, businesses run on technology, especially information technology (IT), we’re always looking to find areas for improvement and increased efficiency. How do we find them? One way – the way IT has done it historically – is to wait for a complaint or request from someone connected...

I have led and taken three companies public, two of which I started.  This means that I have had one foot in the world of institutional leadership and another in the world of entrepreneurship.  Both are important, but the latter provided me with the greatest lessons on value creation. Making...

Phee was founded in 2014 with the scope of giving a second life to natural residues, which humanity considers as waste, trying to prove that these materials will be part of our everyday life in the future.  This is the vision of its founder, Stavros Tsompanidis, a young businessman, who...

As the months continue on, we are getting closer and closer to living in what people are referring to as a “post-pandemic world.” This doesn’t mean we aren’t still dealing with COVID or its ramifications. The pandemic permanently changed so many different aspects of our society—including the way we integrate...

More than ever before, boards of directors are recognizing that DEI not only contributes to organizational performance but also promotes better decision making, prevents blind spots in board deliberation, and enables them to access more resources and reach a broader community. Boards play an integral role in leading their companies...

Security is often viewed as a necessary cost of business. The security professionals working for organizations have innovative ideas, and with the right technology, they can provide immense value above and beyond preventing theft.  Every security department is collecting massive amounts of information and data from its various systems daily,...

Building a tight-knit, strong, healthy company culture presents its challenges in environments where people work face to face together. With the Pandemic in 2020, it caused us to challenge our company structures by adapting to a remote-work team dynamic. With remote-work as the new norm, leaders across the globe are...

There have been studies regarding older employees living their lives and later leaving the workforce and younger hospitality employees entering the hospitality industry. Understanding this future hospitality workforce is crucial as experiential studies of past generations (Baby-boomers, Generation X and Generation Y) have reported high turnover patterns among the hospitality...

How do you acknowledge and interact with life? Which of these two distinct approaches do you take: are you more likely to react or to respond? What’s the difference and why does it matter?   Dictionary.com provides the following definitions for the two terms:  React: “To act in response to an agent or influence.” ...