The end of COVID quarantine signals the end of an era for sellers. The days of the road warrior are over. Lockdown proved that sellers can do just fine, if not better, by working remotely. There's no travel expense and zero wasted time in airpo...

Conflict isn't what gets people excited about coming to work every day, that's for sure. And leaders and employees alike try to avoid any way possible. But the best way to avoid conflicts is to understand what gives rise to them in the first plac...

Apologizing is one of the hardest things we have to do, not just as leaders, but as people.

Telling someone you've done them wrong is never easy. When we do finally work up the courage and humility we need to apologize, we tend to mak...

It's one thing to get an organization to move off a burning platform. It is quite another to get an organization to move when there is no visible fire.

The pandemic required leaders to make significant changes at great speed. For so...

Whenever a market enters a frenzied buying period, good deals get harder to find and mistakes more likely. That's what we see right now in M&A as the flood of easy money and fears of tax hikes under the Biden administration combine to fuel...

Calling it a deluge would be an understatement. When Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, clients inundated their accounting firms with queries, wanting to know precisely how the tax law changes would affect their businesses and, mo...

After grappling with the COVID-19 crisis for the past year, senior living and care facilities are waking up to some stark financial realities that are starting to push a new wave of consolidation in the sector.

One recent analysis fou...

Lore has it that a woman once approached Pablo Picasso at the height of his fame and asked if he would sketch her portrait. He dashed off a few strokes and handed her the drawing. She asked how much she owed him.

"$10,000," Picasso is...

We aren't all making semiconductors, innovating HR with new startups, or running e-commerce shops. But no matter what industry you're in, it's been transformed by technology.

Digital transformations live or die based on a leader's ab...

It's no secret that if you look at the senior ranks of many corporations, including the C-suite and the board of directors, there are more white men than there are women or people of color.

The numbers bear this out. A 2019 study by...

Climate change may not have hit your home yet with a wildfire, windstorm, or flooding, but it's still barreling toward millions of people with an increasingly urgent threat: a homeowner's insurance crisis.

Annual insurance bills a...

As M&A activity gets hotter, private equity firms face a growing challenge: how to squeeze out the value they need from deals.

North American deals hit their second-highest level this century in the first quarter of 2021, adding t...

As Americans across the country are flooded with news reports of assaults and hate speech directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, individual protesters are taking a stand, and so too are...

Though some are portraying Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' July 20 plan to blast off into space as an impulsive publicity stunt, much more is at issue here than just the richest person on Earth moving on to conquer new worlds.

Bezos' B...

After more than a year of Covid-19 lockdowns, the hiring floodgates are about to open -- and managers should be prepared.

Since March 2020, employment has been a seller's market. Very few people have been able to switch jobs. With a p...