Many of these jobs come with very attractive six figure salaries, and for anyone interested in data and analysis, could provide extremely rewarding careers. Demand is likely to rocket, so getting into the industry in its early days could set you up for a future-proofed career.

Most of us don’t think successful leaders have an introverted leadership style, since, by all appearances, extroverted people make wonderful public speakers and engaging networkers.

Just like a child, companies take a village to run efficiently. This raises a need for boardrooms. For any board to be effective, it needs to have a strong capable leader.

I recently had the pleasure of doing a fireside chat with my son, David, at a Marriott conference. The theme of our conversation centered on how we promote associate wellbeing through our TakeCare program and where we find our happiness. It’s a simple topic on the surface, but the answer means something different to every person.

But the #1 thing I wish I’d told myself is this: getting from $10m to $100m in revenues is very doable.

Once you get the “right people on the bus,” (as taught to us by Jim Collins and his best-seller, Good to Great), a leader’s job is to keep them there by figuring out the elixir of intrinsic motivation. Despite overwhelming evidence that traditional methods including a carrot (reward) and stick (reprimand) approach is not effective, an incredible number of companies still waste time and energy on such methods.

With the second season of my podcast Office Hours, we expanded our guest list to include leaders from a variety of industries and walks of life.

Companies don’t just appear fully-formed and perfect. They are built over time. But how fast? And, well, how?

Bruce Chizen has the kind of unique executive experience that would fill a book of business school case studies.  

As the CEO of Adobe Systems – the company that makes Photoshop, Premiere and more – Bruce mentored his replacement, Shantanu Narayen. He got mentored by the company's co-founder and original CEO, John Warnock. And he often sat across the bargaining table from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.