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Back to news homePosthumous Lessons For Surviving The Unthinkable
Credit: Courtesy of Texas Roadhouse Kent Taylor was turned down more than 80 times by would-be investors when he sought funding in the early ’90s for his new venture, Texas […]
Four Ways To Deal With The Demoralizing Delta Variant
The health damage is sadly, easy to spot: nearly 630,000 new cases a day worldwide on average, and more than 9,500 daily deaths since Covid’s delta variant arrived. The toll […]
How the Fire Department of New York Changed After 9/11
Most of us remember September 11, 2001 as a horrific day. For the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), however, the horror stretched on. Fires around the World Trade Center […]
How CEOs Should Rethink Risk After The Pandemic
One thing we’ve learned from Covid is that big companies are still run by flesh-and-blood human beings, not artificially intelligent data-crunchers. Despite frequent warnings about potential pandemics, most companies and […]
What Emergency Responders Can Learn from the Business World
In 2015, New Jersey was ready for a pandemic. The state’s Department of Health (NJDOH) had conducted a full-scale exercise for influenza response, modeled on H1N1 and SARS as a […]
Jeff Immelt: What I Learned From Failure
In the three years since I left GE, I have chosen not to speak publicly about the company. I didn’t want to have my words sliced into sound bites. I […]
How Business Leaders Can Prepare for the Next Health Crisis
The shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical health and safety material and equipment that have persisted throughout the Covid-19 pandemic have made one thing clear: Large organizations […]
How to Reinvent Your Organization In the Middle of a Crisis
“They expect me to perform miracles and I haven’t even caught my breath yet,” a senior executive told me as she held her head in her hands. We were talking […]
CEO Of The Year Winners Say ‘The Why’ Is Critical
It’s perhaps not surprising that trust emerged as a running theme when AlixPartners’ Ted Bililies and Chief Executive editor Dan Bigman talked leadership with a brain trust of America’s most […]