CEO Perspectives

James Watt and the leadership team at BrewDog have plans to open a £12M eco-friendly brewing facility. This bio-energy plant will fuel the production of 176M pints of craft beer per year and reduce carbon emissions by 7,500 tonnes.  The plant will be located at BrewDog’s Ellon base, where the...

Your windows are among the crucial components of your house. Not do they allow you to see the outside world, but they also allow light in your house and provide you with enhanced security and safety.  All windows regardless of their quality require replacement at some point because they won’t...

Former Senator Frank Church once stated, “I never knew a man that took a bedroll into an Idaho mountainside and slept there under a star-studded summer sky who felt self-important that next morning.” As a native sixth-generation Idahoan, I know this feeling after spending many nights under those same stars....

In a thought-provoking Fast Company article this spring, Shekar Natarajan, EVP and Chief Supply Chain Officer for AEO, the parent company of American Eagle Outfitters, made the following observation: “If every retailer shared supply-chain assets, we could cut 9 trillion transportation miles a year, have 90,000 fewer trucks on the...

Partnerships are the backbone of any business. The relationship between CEO and CFO is the most important of them all. A CEO choosing their CFO is like a Presidential candidate searching for their VP. The CFO is the CEO’s co-pilot, trying to navigate the company through each hurdle. CFOs help...

Spanish-American clinical research executive Juan de Borbón resides in the United States. He has vast experience running nearly 2000 clinical trials in various therapeutic fields. These include cancer, nephrology, hepatology, infectious illness (Covid-19, Ebola, Marburg, Influenza, HIV, Hepatitis), and neurology. Juan de Borbón has been inspiring and motivating the clinical...

It has always been important to have strong leadership in place to cultivate strong company culture and increase the effectiveness of a business. I've seen firsthand that this is especially true for sales teams, as they tend to have a very direct impact on the overall success of their company....

If you’ve climbed to the top of the leadership ladder, you’re in a position to throw others a line to join you. So, share your hard-won knowledge with your peers and younger generations entering the workforce to encourage innovative thinking and growth. Try these three tips to transfer your knowledge...

Great leadership comes from great self-leadership, which starts with our mindset. While it is a relatively widespread belief that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, science tells a different story. We as human beings have a tremendous capacity to learn; it’s an ability we possess throughout our lifetime....

In my years as a business leader, I have seen great teams and not-so-great teams function. But I've just about never seen a team (or leader) who didn't want to be productive and excellent in what they do. Oftentimes the gap between a team and their best potential could be...