Have you ever wondered why the exhortation “This Is Business!” should be an acceptable and definitive justification for a decision that undermines a business’ structural integrity? Typically, these decisions involves implementation of operational efficiency measures such as making employees redundant while demanding fewer people to carry the same work load sometimes even without getting paid

Every day of the week, you can attend a conference, workshop, seminar, webinar, peer coaching group, or read business books, -journals, -articles, and LinkedIn posts. What they all have in common is the offering of solutions that promise to make you a more successful leader. Apart from sharing non-tangible best practices, these meetings and reading

Books don’t get written in the order they ultimately appear in their published form; the title, sub-title and introduction may well be the last pieces that are created. When contemplating to write what is now The Root Cause, I titled the book “It Depends”, as a reference to a consultant’s idiosyncratic answer to most of

Imagine being the director of finance at the Facilities Management division of a major financial institution. You provide the institution’s executive management team with financial reports on its large number of branch network offices.   Here is Your Predicament: Every month, the Information Technology (IT) department processes financial data from the branch network that you

The premise of The Root Cause is that failure to understand business system complexity and the disruptive nature of events undermine CEO EffectivenessTM. Complexity refers to the fact that these networks of business functions, –processes, interfaces, and technological tools―are intricately interconnected and dependent upon each other. In order to justify the ever increasing cost of operating

Yes, I wrote the manuscript for a book titled “CEO Adventure”; it took me a while, but its ready for publishing! However . . . . . The first publisher who acquired the manuscript went belly-up before publishing, and the second reneged on our contract. Then, I asked renowned author Bo Burlingham for advice. He