CEO Perspectives

Customers are a business's most valuable resource, and knowing what a customer is looking for is vital for every business endeavor. How a customer views a business, or a company is essential for business operations, since it impacts its overall reputation. Therefore, to truly attain success, putting the customer and...

Tourism is on target to grow, with the number of tourists projected to be 8.2 billion by 2037, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). For years, international travel experiences, at points of departure and arrival, have been laborious and cumbersome. Countries with inefficient airports, endless documentation processes, travel...

Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth.   How has that phenomenally dumb concept endured since John Heywood uttered those thoughtless words in 1546!  Well, don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth unless you want a very large, feed-guzzling-aged- pet. And likely good sized veterinarian bills.   More elsewhere for you city-folks,...

Inflation is taking a big bite out of your margins.  You want to raise prices, but there’s internal and external pressure to hold them steady.  What should you do?  For most companies, the best answer is to raise prices now.  Maybe a subset of products; maybe carefully executed, but the...

Project management tools are software solutions that are specifically designed to help project teams effectively plan, organize, and manage their projects. These tools enable teams to break down large projects into smaller, more manageable tasks and track progress, resources, and timelines. Popular project management tools include monday.com, Asana, Jira, Trello,...

As another year comes to an end, we find ourselves as a nation in a bedeviling quagmire economically heading into 2023. To date, as both Consumer & CEO Confidence measured by the Conference Board continue to fall the US is likely to be already in a recession, or headed into...

Digant Patel regularly volunteers for numerous organizations, from the American Heart Association to the Food Bank of New Jersey and the YMCA. He donated Care packages to Synergy Home Care in Dec 2021. He supported the fundraiser to improve the health and lives of people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic...

As far as ginormous deals go, Emil Michael is a heavy hitter and a headline maker: He’s raised more than $25 billion in capital and famously negotiated Didi Chuxing’s $7 billion acquisition of Uber China, which he says has been his most challenging deal to date. Prior to that, Michael...

FTX, an abbreviation of "Futures Exchange", was co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) in May 2019. The trajectory of growth of FTX, which operated from Bahamas, has been phenomenal and it stood tall in the crypto exchange market. Before the negative news started pouring in, FTX held its position as the...

It still stands today that when it comes to career success, it’s not about what you know, but who you know. This occurs as a function of influence, which provides a symbiotic exchange of value by leveraging the resources you have on hand. Learning to create influence networks as a...