Every day we see tens of posts on LinkedIn from Executive Mentors, Coaches, and Business Advisors calling leaders about the importance of nurturing soft skills for the health of the work environment and performance. They tell us how collaboration, communication, positiveness, kindness, and many others are vital to turning the…

And here we go again. Tech CEOs are acting in self-protection once more. If you are not up to speed, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and many other executives call for a pause on AI. A p-a-u-s-e on AI! That is not how things work on tech, and they know it…

The scene is quite simple and frequent. If you have had a team before and managed a group of varying talented individuals, you knew whom to go to when you needed to assign a task or project. A manager always knows whom to trust and who not, whom you can…

The scene is commonplace in corporations. You got paired with an Executive Mentor, or you ask someone you admire to mentor you. You schedule the first meeting following the two-pager document with suggestions available on your intranet. You and your mentor have a great first session when you discuss your…

What you have to deal with in your job is frequently not the work deal you remember. In fact, what you must manage for most people working in corporations is radically different from the written agreement. “The work deal” is an informal way to refer to the agreement between the…

Most Marketing decision-makers have a real challenge today with Digital Marketing. It is becoming growingly challenging to reach positive ROI in digital campaigns, and the number of qualified leads they generate does not please their sales counterparts, raising many eyebrows. If that is your case, you are not alone. It…

The door of the CEO’s office opened after a few minutes of waiting in the lobby. He was the owner of a billion-dollar tire retail chain in a top international market. Our consulting team was vigilant in reading the room and answering all questions about the deep analysis we made…

When we read about the great resignation, we all can relate to it deep inside. Something during the CoVID pandemic has changed how we look at and connect to “work.” More family time, uncertainty about the future, economic pressure, and other outcomes have severely affected most of us and how…

David McClelland pioneered workplace motivational thinking with his 1960’s “Need Theory.” His work changed the way many corporate leaders understood the relation between motivation and performance. They offered many counterintuitive insights about what using power meant in the past decades’ business landscape and how the pursuit of power, when exercised…