The Gatekeeper Blog
Insights into the chief of staff role

How to Build Sustainable Business Advantage in a World Where Great is No Longer Good Enough

Leaders must elevate and embed a continuous learning mindset. Going beyond great challenges many implicit and explicit assumptions about what it takes to succeed and thrive.

How CEOs can win the fight and transform to win the future.

CEOs should not allow the focus on near-term profits and competitiveness to obscure the need to transform the business in order to win the future.

The Heart of CEO Effectiveness

Effective CEO staffs represent the CEO, the company, and the brand to the board, associates, customers, vendors, and the world with every interaction.

The End of Bureaucracy, Again?

Despite the model’s popularity, the effectiveness of bureaucracy has increasingly been called into question because of structural changes in the business environment.

CEOs Reflect on Leadership in Perilous Times

CEOs have been forced to find new signals to understand the business, markets, and overall economy during the pandemic.

How Transformative CEOs Lead in a Crisis

CEOs that use a reliable set of measures for transformation can help their companies stabilise revenue, unlock growth, reduce costs and become more agile.

Becoming an all-weather company

As we have seen time and again, if good times last long enough, it becomes hard to justify investments to ameliorate the bad times—efficiency becomes prized over resilience.

It’s Go Time for Digital Transformation

Chiefs of Staff are instrumental in the success of their organizations which helps explain why there are so many of them in the world today.

Who is the chief of staff?

Chiefs of staff are instrumental to the success of the organization - that is why the role has grown to what it is today.