Executive Profiles

What’s the key to success in business? It’s what all leaders hope to find out and pursue. For years, when asked this question, leaders have been unambiguous in their answer: Culture. As but one example, a whopping 94% of executives in a Deloitte study said they believed that a distinct...

“There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.” ~ Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Mark Twain once wrote, ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely...

The Great Resignation shows no signs of slowing down, with one-fourth of workers planning on leaving their jobs this year. With this in mind, it’s more important than ever to preserve your business’s institutional knowledge. Here are three tips to consider. Month after month, companies have watched talent walk out...

As Derek Thompson recently pointed out in his excellent article “Three Myths of the Great Resignation” published in The Atlantic, the seeming exodus from the workplace is really a function of three independent trends:  1) Job Switching, primarily by hospitality workers in restaurants and hotels switching to better, higher paying...

It is the time of year when we all start thinking about the future. What is ahead for 2022 and beyond? Business leaders are constantly looking to adapt and evolve with the challenges the present brings while trying to anticipate what could be waiting down the road. It has now...

We are living in unprecedented times, and the business environment we work in is more volatile and uncertain than ever before. As 2021 draws to a close and we look ahead to 2022 we need to accept that our world has shifted on its axis and that we have a...

Leadership can be lonely.  It can also be unrelenting and thankless.  But at the moment it can also be fearful. Leaders have had the toughest two years of their careers so far, and it’s about to get tougher.  None of us have ever led through times like these.  There is...

When I first entered the product engineering world after college, it was very different than it is today. For one thing, what is now called software-as-a-service (SaaS) was known then as web-based software. More significantly, we used the waterfall model of software development. Our team had an idea of the...

In the first article of my Future of Work series, I offered a quote from Thomas Jefferson that speaks to what organizational leaders need to do to survive and thrive in a fast-changing world over the next decade. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand...

In September 2020, I wrote a piece for CEOWORLD titled, Are You Ready to Hit the Reset Button on Accountability?  The idea was to take lessons learned from the pandemic to reset what accountability looks like in our organizations. As we emerge from what we've experienced together over the past...