As Chief of Staff, I learned a bottom line lesson about strategic planning: Many people assume that the hardest thing about ‘strategy’ is the planning. Not so much. Executing...
Private equity (PE) value creation is often misunderstood as relying primarily on pulling financial engineering levers. Yet, we in the industry know this is a small part of the story....
“The whole is often less than the sum of its parts”1 concludes a recent research report from S&P, confirming what corporate leaders already know, that M&A is a risk for acquirers.2 It’s...
Most business leaders from around the world say their overwhelming objective is to find better ways to implement their plans. The Harvard Business Review in a cover report on why...
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do...
Currently: President, BasisCode Technologies LLC Previously: VP, Chief of Staff, Fixed Income Investments for ING Investment Management #1) What is the most satisfying part of being Chief of Staff? For me its the...
CEOs hire a Chief of Staff to clean up a mess, get staff members to work together efficiently and focus on the issues the CEO is committed to deliver. Fundamentally,...