Patrick Pichette

November 3, 2022

Preparing for the Unexpected: Building Organizational Resilience

A notice was posted on the door as I entered Chipotle this week. It warned me that that chicken was currently available as their transportation system […]
October 27, 2022

Making Meetings Matter

“Meetings are usually toxic because they often convey an abysmally small amount of information per minute”.[1] Have you ever felt this way? Having sat through many […]
October 20, 2022

The Leadership Elephant

I’ll start with a simple confession – I’ve read far too much on the subject of leadership. While I’m at it, here’s confession number two – […]
June 26, 2015

Why Getting Fired is a Good Thing!

I was recently asked to provide a reference for someone. This individual is great at what they do and I provided many positive remarks. However, the […]
May 19, 2015

The Pichette Scale: Assessing Work/Life Balance

“After nearly seven years as CFO, I will be retiring from Google to spend more time with my family”. This was how Patrick Pichette, one of […]