Sep 28 Group Flow: Awareness in Action
The recent, spectacular documentary series Last Dance tells the story of the Chicago Bulls’ path to multiple NBA championships. In his books Sacred Hoops and Eleven Rings: the Soul of...
Jul 10 The Emergence of Tier 1 Enterprise Collaboration Technology: Aligning Business Lines, Geographies, and Partners
Large enterprises need Tier 1 Enterprise Collaboration Technology to fully unlock the value of their complex mix of businesses, subsidiaries, geographies, partners and existing IT investments throughout the organization. This...
Jun 03 Strategy Execution with Built-In Resilience
For at least two decades, we have talked about how executives have to lead in a VUCA-world: a world that is increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. With today's global...
Apr 29 Leading Through and Out of the Covid-19 Crisis
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There’s a lot being written right now about how individual employees across the globe are having to get used to new and very different ways of working remotely. Millions have...
Feb 06 Election to Execution: Why Strategy Execution Matters in Local Government
Chiefofstaff.com is partnering with Pat Brogan and ESGL to focus on strategy execution in government. Explore our series of blogs and webinars on this topic....
May 01 Execution-control at Private Equity Portfolio Companies
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Private equity (PE) value creation is often misunderstood as relying primarily on pulling financial engineering levers. Yet, we in the industry know this is a small part of the story....
Jan 17 Digitizing M&A to Realize Synergies
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“The whole is often less than the sum of its parts”1 concludes a recent research report from S&P, confirming what corporate leaders already know, that M&A is a risk for acquirers.2 It’s...
Jan 25 A Little Story
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This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do...
Jul 27 10 Questions for the Chief of Staff: Carlos Guillen
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Currently: President, BasisCode Technologies LLC Previously: VP, Chief of Staff, Fixed Income Investments for ING Investment Management #1) What is the most satisfying part of being Chief of Staff? For me its the...
Jul 27 Consider It Done
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CEOs hire a Chief of Staff to clean up a mess, get staff members to work together efficiently and focus on the issues the CEO is committed to deliver. Fundamentally,...