Category: CEO Advisory

If you have been keeping current on any business news, you’ve heard that Travis Kalanick, the CEO of Uber, has finally resigned. Two weeks ago, he announced he was taking a “leave of absence” citing the recent death of his mother and the need to “grow as CEO” (duh!), as reasons to take a break […]

“When we buy a product [or service], we essentially ‘hire’ something [or someone] to get a job done”, says Clayton Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, in his new book “Competing Against Luck”. Why Hire a CEO Advisor? What “job” do clients hire CEO Advisors to do? Here are […]

For the past several years, I have made a hobby of reading biographies of U.S. presidents. So far, I have studied all the 20th century presidents starting with Theodore Roosevelt, the first seven presidents (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams and Jackson), and Abraham Lincoln. In most polls ranking the “best” U.S. presidents, the top […]

I thought I knew about President’s Day. After all, it’s been a holiday since before I can remember. But after a bit of research, I learned that the first President’s Day was “celebrated” on February 22, 1800, to honor U.S. presidents. The day was chosen to specifically honor George Washington, since February 22 was his birthday. […]

Recently, a prospective client commented that he had looked at a 10-year-old strategy document from his firm and discovered that the priorities were virtually identical to the most recent plan. He seemed shocked that such a thing could happen and wondered if the phenomenon was unique to his firm. I told him no, it was […]