CEO

If you’re like most executives across the country, you may be reconstituting teams right now, hiring and promoting to fill critical leadership positions. More than ever, you’re competing for people who can be adaptive and agile. Everybody needs people who can grow in response to the rapidly changing business environment. And you probably want people

The future of work – of hybrid and fully-remote workers – will require upskilling of employees for organizations that wish to succeed in the post-COVID world. Leaders who want to seize a competitive advantage in that future will need to benchmark their training initiatives to best practices on managing hybrid and remote workers. In this

An Ernst & Young survey from late 2021 found a disconnect between employees’ desires for flexible work environments and companies offering such arrangements. It found “79% of companies intend to make moderate to extensive hybrid work changes, but only 40% have communicated their plans to workforce.” The study also noted “90% of employees want flexibility,

Satya Narayana Nadella became Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 2014. At that time, the corporation’s market capitalization was around $311 billion. Microsoft is now worth more than $2.26 trillion. Microsoft was among the first companies to exceed a $1 trillion valuation when it hit that milestone in April 2019. Another noteworthy aspect is that at

Over the last two decades, the concept of servant leadership has received significant attention in the popular press. It has also been the focus of prominent organizational leadership scholars who have discussed the positive effects of serving others on profits and employee job satisfaction. Experts like Max Depree, Stephen Covey, Peter Block, and Margaret Wheatley

Only 30% of corporations have seen improved performance stemming from their digital transformations. Because these transformations represent an evolving series of changes, success requires a multifaceted approach. Here’s how companies can get started on a smoother, more rewarding digital transformation. Companies around the world seem to be flocking toward digital transformations. Yet even leaders who embrace

Hybrid work is all the rage lately – initially out of necessity, but now out of flexibility and preference. When businesses moved to remote work in 2020, it was a stressful period of time when they needed to figure out how best to continue on with work while not in person. Since then, all businesses

After a few decades in business and technology, I’ve seen my fair share of acquisitions—and they’re never trivial. But having been through several, I thought I had the routine pretty much down. Then the pandemic hit, and we all had to figure out how to do our jobs—including evaluating potential acquisitions—in remote, distributed environments. While

It’s understandable if business leaders feel ready for some respite from the turmoil and challenges of leading organisations during the past few years; first Brexit caused untold headaches, then COVID-19 struck, now we are facing the disruption of global supply chains and the threat of a new war across Europe. Many executives can look back

With the Russia-Ukraine war creating global geopolitical instability, supply chains in disarray, inflation dampening consumption and the cost of capital rising, it can be easy to put talent in the back seat. But that would be a mistake. The Great Resignation remains a real threat. CNBC reported new data showing a staggering 11 million job

Lack of ideas isn’t usually the problem a company faces when it comes to marketing.  Instead, it’s the inability to bring them to life and increase revenue through execution. That doesn’t mean there is a lack of talent within an organization. Simply, there is a missing piece to pull it all together – leadership. A

“I’ve never had such a hard time hanging on to good talent.” That’s what a business leader bemoaned to me recently, and I’ve heard similar sentiments almost every day for the past two years. We’re in the midst of one of the most tumultuous times on record for hiring and retaining workers. Citing the Bureau

In a volatile world where the only certainty is the uncertainty, companies can no longer view innovation as a ‘nice to have’, but as a business imperative. A go-to vehicle for sustainable growth. For so long, innovation was seen more as an art form than a science yet, there is a common tendency to conflate

The business world has a diversity, equity and inclusion problem. And grass is green, water is wet and you’re thinking “tell me something I don’t know.” It’s obvious that there is still a lot of work to be done on DE&I, despite many improvements over the last 20 years. DE&I initiatives are finally starting to

As we’re approaching better times ahead, employers are planning for the future of work. There are a lot of questions and conversations surrounding workplace trends and how organizations plan to move forward.  Prior to the pandemic, there may have been employers who were reluctant to initiate a work-from-home culture/policy for several reasons. One of them

Over the past two years, there has been a fundamental shift in the relationship between employees and employers. The Great Resignation has led to worker shortages across industries, and HR departments need to offer greater flexibility and more robust benefits if they want to retain staff and remain competitive. This will require them to think

Most of us pursue an MBA degree because we wish to change our job function or the industry we work in. An MBA internship lets you explore the new job function or industry that you’ve chosen. It also gives you a head start as you get some work experience under your belt. You also get a

Aligning strategy, planning, risk, people and technology is key for businesses to adapt to and survive in today’s disruptive world.  Disrupt your planning before your business gets disrupted  Any conversation around energy today is going to be intertwined with the geopolitical crisis in eastern Europe. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent announcement to ban the importation

Extensive research has shown that the characteristics of CEOs can have a large impact on the life and performance of an organization. For better or worse, an organization eventually starts to resemble the leader at the top and adopt their leadership style. While all CEOs are very successful and experienced individuals, the way they reached

For the past couple years, companies have scrambled to understand why they were losing so many employees. Could the pandemic have chased millions out of the corporate ranks and into consulting or freelancing gigs? Did some people simply retire early or live off government stimulus money? It looks as if the biggest answer may be