Executive Briefing

A Strategic Innovation Residency Framework for the New Economic Decade In November 2025, Greece introduced a bold initiative: the Start-Up Golden Visa, a program designed to merge innovation, capital inflow, and controlled migration policy. This new mechanism allows non-EU investors to obtain residency-by-investment by funding early-stage companies registered on the government’s Elevate Greece platform — the country’s official...

We CEOs love our jargon and buzzwords. Synergy, pivot, disruption, AI… the list just keeps going. These terms often fill our meetings and presentations, conveying a sense of progress and innovation. However, one word that shouldn’t be a buzzword for CEOs is “team.”  Too many leaders throw around that term when referring to...

More than a decade ago, when I first began writing books about the power of peers, I started with a simple truth people intuitively understand because they’ve lived it their entire lives: who we surround ourselves with matters. Our language proves the point: birds of a feather flock together, we’re known by the company we keep, a rising tide lifts all...

2026: AI Moves From Experiment to Operating System By 2026, AI adoption in the C-suite is no longer a question of “if” but “how hard, how fast, and to what end.” Global CEO surveys show that AI has become one of the top capital priorities, even as confidence in the...

"You're the worst comedian I've ever seen. Get off the ship." The words bellowed across the cruise ship show lounge. Under the harsh spotlight, I watched 200 faces stare back at me with an expression that fell somewhere between disgust and contempt. This wasn't just a bad gig. This was a catastrophe I couldn't escape from....

Islamic Finance: Ethics Meets Institutional-Grade Capital Islamic finance is a global financial architecture built around Shariah principles that prohibit interest (riba), excessive uncertainty (gharar), and gambling (maisir), while requiring that transactions are backed by real economic activity. At its core is a simple idea: money should not generate money by...

Why the “Buffett Premium” Is Now in Play: Berkshire trades not only on its assets and earnings, but on an embedded “Buffett premium” tied to confidence in unique capital allocation discipline, conservative leverage, and decentralized operations. Recent research and a rare sell rating from Keefe, Bruyette & Woods explicitly cite...

Bezos, Decoded: Bold Moves, No Regrets Jeff Bezos reimagined personal wealth and business with frameworks that upend conventional wisdom. In a world haunted by missed opportunity and fleeting success, Bezos is both gambler and scientist: betting big, learning relentlessly, defending his fortune with precision. The tension is clear—do you protect,...

Here is our pick of ten highlights, which should be on the agenda of every CEO for Q4 2025 (Nov-Dec edition). A year of growth, after all. Macro-economic indicators show growth also in November 2025. The year, despite its many shocks – some of which self-inflicted, shows a growth trend...

Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister leading up to World War II, has been ridiculed like few other leaders. He is an easy target because his negotiations with Adolf Hitler resulted in the Munich Agreement, what some have called appeasement, which failed to stop Germany from invading Eastern Europe. It...