Three key issues in the commercial sector are driving the demand and urgency for more green. One, sustainability has moved up the corporate priority list. Two, tenants are willing to pay a premium for best-in-class green spaces. And three, property owners, developers and mangers are increasingly reallocating capital to climate-positive strategies because there’s risk in […]

Three key issues in the commercial sector are driving the demand and urgency for more green. One, sustainability has moved up the corporate priority list. Two, tenants are willing to pay a premium for best-in-class green spaces. And three, property owners, developers and mangers are increasingly reallocating capital to climate-positive strategies because there’s risk in […]

Successful companies value employees and put people first. The concept is deceptively simple. Yet, in practice, it’s a complex balancing act that requires organizations to meet the changing needs and expectations of a new workforce paradigm. From Baby Boomers to Generations X, Y and Z, each demographic has its own attitudes about work and what […]

Business success is inextricably tied to the people that constitute your team. The crux of your business’ success or failure may lie in harnessing the potential of your team and uniting them towards a common goal. A vast amount of time and resources can be consumed trying to find a harmonious balance amongst your team, […]

When CEOs tell me they’re drowning in data, they’re not wrong. With increasingly more intelligent technology, it’s getting easier to access information and harder to find the wisdom to understand it. But because we need data to make decisions, we dive in, unsure how to discern or extract the nugget that will change our business […]

  Over the last two months, we completed our first peer group meeting cycle for the 2023 calendar year. We refer to these as our ‘benchmark meetings’. During these meetings, we compare member company financial performance for the 2022 F’Y, and take a look ahead to 2023. For the most part, our peer group CEOs […]

I was surprised to read in a recent global survey of CEOs that 43% of CEOs responding reported that they don’t encourage debate or dissent. Even more surprising, 53% said their managers didn’t tolerate small-scale failure, and a whopping 76% said they didn’t encourage their people to make independent strategic decisions. If you see yourself […]

Yogi Berra, World Series champion and Hall of Fame catcher for the New York Yankees, was known as much for his humorous sayings as he was for his talent. My favorite? “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up someplace else.” No truer words were ever spoken. Navigating the unknown is much easier […]