Shower thoughts for the New Year

For many of us, we associate showering with waking up in the morning, so it’s no surprise that some of our best ideas fresh in the day are ‘shower thoughts’. I worked for a CEO who regularly called in with her shower thoughts on her commute to the...

Boards overboard and other broader debates

Is overboarding (being on too many Boards or holding too many Chair positions) an issue? Everyone seems to be joining the debate about Board Directors lately. Journalists, analysts, shareholders, as well as the corporate governance industry, are all jumping on the NED...

Excellence on repeat

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation… We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit… Aristotle 322 BC What makes a business relationship successful? Aristotle was onto something when he identified excellence as a learned...