Jack Goodhue gives pointers on how business leaders can encourage employees to think outside the usual paradigm.

Sara Lefcourt explains how the crisis in Ukraine may affect your business and offers tips for managing the situation.

High-quality employee training can be an effective tool in retaining employees and building a skilled workforce. Tim Skully of Eurofins TestOil explai ...

Decisions made in the business world must be made based on more than just opinion, says Jack Goodhue.

Some pandemic-induced trends might accelerate in 2022. How will they affect your planning and management strategies?

Corporate conglomerates seem to go in and out of style. Jack Goodhue explains how they are faring in today’s market.

Knowing When to Hold and When to Fold   In life, as in poker, the importance of recognizing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em cannot b ...

A European Company Goes Elsewhere to Grow Any European lubricant company harboring ambitions to grow is immediately confronted by a daunting fact: ...

Manage Your Margins The financial community is trying to assess whether the inflation we are seeing is “transitory” or not, and what “transit ...

Rethink Your Risk Analysis Over the past month or so, there have been several stunning examples of systemic failures in our society, all of which r ...

Don’t Be A Lemming  A human lemming has been defined as “a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially in a headlong rush to ...

Own Your Failure I recently watched on CNBC an extremely interesting interview with former EBay chief Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, former CE ...

Pleasing Cranky Customers  By now, we clearly understand that many of our customers, both retail and business-to-business, have not been happy ...

Chemicals distributor Brenntag said last week that it will change its operating model by forming two units – one to supply specialty chemicals and t ...

Sara Lefcourt says businesses can reap some value from every crisis—even one as painful as this pandemic.

Dealing with covid-19 has been something of an adventure, says Jack Goodhue. What lessons have we taken away from the experience?

Sara Lefcourt explores which trends may be accelerated—or made permanent—by covid-19.

The coronavirus pandemic has proven to be one of the most life-changing events in American history. But Jack Goodhue is optimistic about the United St ...

Sara Lefcourt offers up tips for effective communication during a crisis.

Sara Lefcourt provides tips on how to plan for pandemics and other emergencies.