President Biden's signature infrastructure law aims to, among other objectives, propel America forward in transitioning to a clean energy economy. If its proposals are executed properly, I'm confident that it will succeed in that goal.

Pandemic shutdowns have caused us all to slow down and spend time reflecting on life. Cries of systemic inequalities and looming environmental crisis have been amplified and are now on the radars of key stakeholders. The investment community and...

As the Covid-19 crisis has stretched on, we're grappling with the tremendous changes it's wrought on our lives.

A year and a half on, though, the shape of the post-pandemic world is becoming clearer. New economic and social patter...

It started as a fight about a warehouse in hardscrabble Alabama, but the result is a state-of-the-art corporate marketing campaign now playing on cell phones and televisions in living rooms across America.

Earlier this year, news cove...

When you're building a company from scratch, the most painful body blows can turn out to be the most valuable experiences.

This punch to the gut came for my company in 2012 when one of our anchor clients, accounting for about a thir...

Picture yourself five years from now driving through a U.S. city.

What will be different? Despite widespread optimism that we'll all be driving Teslas and other electric vehicles, the reality is that most of the passenger vehicles a...

Car dealership lots are emptying out due to the semiconductor supply crunch. Container ships are backed up in major ports in Europe, China and the U.S. A dire labor shortage is adding to the difficulty of producing and transporting enough goods t...

Supply chain problems are now impacting attorneys, accountants, consultants, public relations and other knowledge-based jobs. These professions have long relied on top talent from business schools and law schools to join their ranks, but now it s...

Just ask the fashion executive who pitched his spring collection by citing violent political protests, or the communications chief who wisecracked about AIDS, or the CFO who promoted unreleased company financial information on his personal Twitte...

The data on pay inequity for female physicians is, frankly, damning.

Across all medical specialties, there are dogged disparities between what females and males are paid. For instance, in pediatric pulmonology, women earn 23% less tha...

Anyone living in San Francisco or Seattle, where Teslas are a common sight, could be forgiven for believing that the electric-vehicle era is just around the corner.

Head out to the rest of the country, though, and the reality is more...

Get ready for the store of the future.

From Walmart's order-picking Alphabot to Kroger's automated fulfillment center, technology is already changing how we shop. We're ordering online for at-home delivery or we use click-and-co...

What's more important for your company: growth or trust?

If you said the former, you're not alone. Organic growth is overwhelmingly the top goal for business executives, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers's 24th annual global survey...

Superheroes are fun to watch in movies, but they are exhausting to work for.

Risking it all to save the day at the last minute, there's no doubt that it can be thrilling and nerve-wracking and emotional. It's also a lousy way to run a...

Surging markets in carbon credits have started to save the planet and save billions of dollars - but they need guardrails from business leaders and regulators to truly succeed.

Worldwide carbon credit trading markets already exceed...

If you're an auto supplier, the consensus today is that you need to go electric or go the way of the dinosaurs.

After all, every day seems to bring more confirmation that the electric vehicle era is just around the corner. Big automak...

Over the past 30 years, the winning formula for U.S. manufacturing firms has been simple: outsource as much production as possible to low-cost centers in Asia and ship the goods across the Pacific.

That model had a good run, but the u...

CEOs are under no illusion these days about the importance of cybersecurity and the need to stay on top of the worsening threat environment. Corporate leaders in North America and Europe identify it as their number one concern-ahead of pandemic...

People screw up at work. We are, after all, human. But leaders only compound the problem when they fail to act on it. Pretending that inappropriate conduct doesn't exist--or hoping the bad actor will see the light, self-correct, and switch to a b...

Are you the undisputed top seller in your field? Have your competitors stopped trying to improve? Is your industry unchanging and your product the same as it ever was?

If the answer to any of these questions is "No," then your job...