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Archive for April, 2025

The One Lie That’s Killing Your Business (and the Seat It’s Sitting In)

I had breakfast with Jim Collins the other day.  Okay—he was on stage. I was in the crowd of 400 CEOs, frantically taking notes while inhaling burnt coffee and half-warm Styrofoam eggs. But I was there. I heard him speak ...

Meet Your Newest Security Risk: The AI Tool You Just Approved

I just got back from a CEO coaching conference.  It was one of those events where everyone’s armed with a fresh Moleskine notebook, wearing their serious thinking face, ready to scribble down the next big idea that’ll double their revenue ...

CEOs Are About to Get Wrecked (Unless We Step Up)

Last night, I went to a different kind of event. Usually, I’m surrounded by the people who write code, deploy firewalls, and clean up the digital blood after a ransomware attack. The folks who actually know how a single missed ...

Well, That Didn’t Last Long: Why Your Cyber Strategy Can’t Be Based on Headlines

Not even a full week. That’s how long we had between a glimmer of good news and a fresh slap of reality. Just a few days ago, security analysts were celebrating. Ransomware payments, they said, were down. A win! Maybe ...

Guilty Until Proven Secure: Why Compliance Is Your Only Defense

You know the drill. You’re the CEO of a growing business. You’ve hired a sharp IT provider. You’ve got antivirus. Backups. Firewalls. Maybe even cyber insurance. You sleep at night thinking you’ve checked the right boxes. But here’s the twist: ...

How Your Phone is Selling You Out—and What to Do About It

Let’s talk about your phone.  No, not the $1,000 mini-computer you use to doom-scroll LinkedIn while pretending to listen in meetings. I’m talking about the single most dangerous piece of technology in your environment—because it’s the one that’s most personal, ...

Half-Done Is Worse Than Never Started: What Your Marketing Team Can Learn From Your Dev Team

Let me let you in on a secret that’s helped us have the most successful quarter in our company’s history—and no, it didn’t come from a flashy tool or another overpriced consultant. It came from our software developers. Yeah. The ...

Your Data Was Stolen. And No One Noticed.

The ransomware headlines are dying down. And that’s exactly why you should be worried. Because while you’ve been breathing a little easier, thinking the cyber threats are fading… the game has already changed. And the attackers? They’re getting smarter, quieter, ...

If You’ve Said It Once… You Haven’t Said It Enough

Ever wonder if your team is actually hearing you? I mean really hearing you—not nodding while they check Slack, not pretending they didn’t just mute you on Zoom. I had this conversation yesterday with a group of CEOs running businesses ...

“Does This Really Apply to Us?” The Compliance Loophole That’s Going to Cost You Millions

Let’s talk about the biggest lie CFOs keep telling themselves: “This compliance stuff doesn’t really apply to us.” I hear it all the time. “We’re too small.”  “We don’t handle credit cards.”  “We’re under the threshold.”  “We only have 47 ...

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