My company, Sapper Consulting, rose from the ground with little to no infrastructure. Five of us built the plane as we flew, focusing on maintaining stability and staying on course. It was a heady experience for someone like me in the right place at the right time with the skills...

Bill Gates, the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft has named ten “breakthrough technologies” that will help to reinvent the future, and listed them in the MIT Technology Review article. So what are Gates’ picks? One of them is Sanitation without sewers. “About 2.3 billion people don’t have good sanitation,”...

Surprisingly, Greece has been named the “worst country for women to work” in an annual Expat Insider Survey, followed closely by Italy. With 77% of female expats in Greece dissatisfied with their jobs and an additional 55% reporting that they were unhappy with their work-life balance. Italy is the second...

Czech Republic has been named the “best place for women to work” in an annual survey by Expat Insider. According to the index, Czech Republic (Czechia) is the best place due to the number of female expats who were happy with their career prospects. 73% of women say they are...

I worked in the hazardous waste management business for over 40 years in a variety of management positions.  It’s a highly regulated business, and the dangers of daily management of materials that are toxic, flammable, reactive or explosive are real.  The margin for error is low, and safety is the...

Cash – once the king of consumer payments – has been losing market share to electronic payments methods that deliver fast and secure experiences for consumers and merchants.  Any business that sells goods or services to consumers -- online or in person -- must decide what forms of payment to...

Improvisation, planning and persistence translate from the trail to the boardroom. There are few days I will remember with more clarity than the day I bent down to gather water from a stream in the Appalachian Trail’s 100 Mile Wilderness and realized my filter was broken. What’s more: gathering enough...

Leaders are often faced with the challenge of keeping their team motivated. But…who motivates the leader? Leaders are people, just like everyone else. And like others, there are times when they lose momentum, get weary, feel rudderless, or suffer from apathy. During these times, motivation becomes a challenge, even for...

Top B2B sales performers have thirty to forty per cent larger internal networks than average. In particular they have wide and deep relationships with support staff, have strong links with management and invested time proactively cultivating their internal networks. (reference, Volometrix Study, published Harvard Business review 7/2015) Here’s a quick...