First was the Great Depression. Then came the Great Recession.

Sixteen months after the first Covid-19 lockdown, it's now time for the Great Resignation.

A record 4 million people quit their jobs in April alone, and more...

The rapid spread of Covid's Delta variant has derailed family vacations, delayed office reopenings and heightened fears that our suspended reality will go on for years to come.

But even with the continued disruption and changing gov...

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...

The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment's decision last week to close Sloan's Lake to recreation and fishing because of blue-green algae bloom brought into stark focus the dangers of fertilizers and other chemical pollutants en...

Set in a desert, surrounded by hostile neighbors, and home to a literal Dead Sea, Israel faces one of the most precarious water situations in the world. But because the natural resource is so scarce, Israel has learned to make the most of every d...

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...

It's a great time to be in the MSP business. The industry finds itself uplifted by a whirlwind of three forces - cloud migration, COVID, and consolidation - that together are creating sunny days for MSP owners and operators.

A ser...

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...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. It's a nugget of wisdom (courtesy of heavyweight boxing great Mike Tyson) that companies would do well to heed when it comes to international compliance risks.

While many larg...

Prior to the pandemic, hospitals were marching toward solutions that paid homage to the heads-and-beds model, with its tight margins. They were investing in specialists to bring elective surgeries in-house. They were becoming more efficient on th...

Let's face it: The private sector isn't getting the job done when it comes to cybersecurity. How many more Colonial Pipeline- and JBS-type incidents really need to occur to drive that point home?

The crescendo is building for a na...

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...

Leaks of customer data, corrupt practices by foreign agents, IT breaches. These are just some of the biggest risks that companies face with their third-party relationships. Despite the known dangers, few get it right when it comes to budgeting fo...