In 2015, Jan Jones released a book titled: The CEO’s Secret Weapon.  The subtitle revealed exactly what she meant: How Great Leaders and their Assistants Maximize Productivity and Effectiveness.  While she makes a valid argument, let’s take this in a different direction. If you type How to be a good...

It’s safe to say that cyber security is a top concern for CEOs today—a recent survey by PWC found that 87 percent of CEOs feel somewhat-to-extreme concern about cyber security. And it should be. CEOs are being held increasingly accountable for their company’s data breach failures, and in extreme cases like...

It is estimated that 66 percent of health systems will allow patients to schedule their own appointments digitally by 2019, and 64% of patients will make use of the online scheduling. These appointments are worth about $3.2 billion. But healthcare isn’t the only industry that’s taking advantage of online schedulers. Gone...

Most of us are familiar with Sheryl Sandberg’s idea that women need to “lean in”, which is a great metaphor for women in business as it empowers them to take charge of their career and how they choose to lead.  The challenge for many women is that “leaning in” can...

Leaders make many decisions each day.  Decisions that range from simple things such as what tie or dress to wear, to more strategic matters such as where to invest, what product to launch and how to address falling margins. It’s comforting to think that our brain, with its vast capacity...

In a world obsessed with maintaining a youthful appearance, wouldn't it make sense to ensure our brains stayed young too?  This is one area where you definitely wouldn't want to see a reduction in those lovely brainy wrinkles, the sulci and gyri that enable our neocortex to fit so beautifully...

Central to human personality theory and popularized by Carl Jung in the early 20th century, the terms introversion and extroversion are commonly used to describe the ways in which people interact with one another.  Contrary to popular belief however, the psychological preference scale relates to far more than simply how...

One hundred years ago, the first U.S. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test was created by Psychologist Alfred Binet and Stanford University. In 1990, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) was defined as a scientifically testable “intelligence” by Psychology Professors Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer. And in 2003, Cultural Intelligence (CQ) was introduced by...

We live and work in a technology intensive world. By most accounts the level of technology involvement in our lives is at an all-time high.  That being said, it is about to increase significantly in the next few years. We have just entered a period of technological advancement that is...