Here’s an article on how hackers used a phishing attack on a food & drink manufacturing firm and took advantage of a number of vulnerabilities like old hardware and default passwords…
Emotional Intelligence is a way for people to apply qualitative reasoning beyond the ‘facts’ of situation. Essentially, it is a set of people skills that can help you expand your…
January 2020 the stock markets had just finished a surprisingly big year with the S&P 500 ending 2019 up 31.46%. The conversation was not about how stable the economy was, but that the fro…
We’ve never seen a pandemic like this in our lifetimes. It’s a crisis of epidemic proportions. Yet it’s also an incredible time to take a deeper dive while in isolation. Will…
Today in times of crisis, we have the opportunity to reset. Call it a “do over”, a chance to answer the proverbial question, “if you knew then, what you know now, what would…
A family owned manufacturing company’s matriarch was considering her options in life and retirement; fear of health issues and lack of energy to continue to run her company in a highly c…
I’m looking forward to speaking at the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Event in San Francisco this fall, during which I plan to share the seven deadly sins of an M&A CEO. Lear…
A Silicon Valley technical staffing company with less than $12 million in revenue had a primary goal of being acquired within three to five years. Revenue growth in terms of new customers was…