Category: CEO

Reading Time: 2 minutes “To build the next generation of companies, we must abandon the dogmas created after the crash. That doesn’t mean the opposite ideas are automatically true: you can’t escape the madness of crowds by dogmatically rejecting them. “Instead ask yourself: how much of what you know about business is shaped by

Reading Time: 2 minutes How to “Heimlich” Yourself The Heimlich maneuver has saved thousands from choking.  Unfortunately, we often “choke” on more than just food.  It’s the rare individual who hasn’t “choked” at a critical moment due to fear, anxiety or some other emotion. There usually isn’t someone around in such situations willing or able

Reading Time: 2 minutes “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.” Helen Keller 1880-1968 The Useless Class  The introduction of machinery into agriculture in the 1800s freed millions from the farm to flock to the cities where, fortunately, an industrial revolution was also occurring

Reading Time: < 1 minute When you’re trying to understand a problem you’re trying to solve, it sometimes helps to ask why it’s your problem.  When it comes to providing healthcare benefits to employees, more than a few CEOs have wondered how they ended up with this mess on their desks. Harvard Business Review recently published a short and excellent article tracing the

Reading Time: < 1 minute Do you know what will happen in less than a year?  A minority will become the majority.  2020 will be the year the Millennials become a majority of the population and not long after, a majority of your employees, customers, suppliers competitors, and vendors. Boomers will now be the minority and Millennial dominance will

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been said there are very few business problems that more revenue can’t solve, as all too many startups have found to their sorrow.  Quite often entrepreneurs in both startups and established ventures become so focused on developing or making the product they forget it has to be sold. Peter Levin,

Reading Time: < 1 minute Great CEOs spend more than a little time watching the world outside the walls of their enterprises because that’s where the need for their offerings emanates.  Even though Bill Gates relinquished the CEO job at Microsoft years ago, he and wife Melinda now lead the Gates Foundation which manages their philanthropic

Reading Time: < 1 minute Many companies are experiencing a scary phenomenon known as “Ghosting.” This occurs when desirable job candidates fail to show up for interviews, respond to job offers or even show up at all for the first day of work after being hired…without so much as a phone call, note of apology

Reading Time: < 1 minute Before science fiction becomes science fact, there is usually a great deal of worry and negative fantasy, which is to be expected as this is how most of us cope with uncertainty.  The promises and threats of Artificial Intelligence are no different. In an attempt to get past the fear

Reading Time: < 1 minute There are some things that all leaders, regardless of experience or ability, can do that make a difference.  We’ve all heard that “leaders eat last” based on the military’s custom of officers making sure that the enlisted men are fed first. Simon Sinek book’s by the same title is a good read. In a