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If you’re like most CEOs, you don’t get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. If you get much less than that, you’re in good company: Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, PepsiCo’s former CEO Indra Nooyi, fashion designer Tom Ford and Lifeway Foods’ Julie Smolyansky, for examples, have claimed to get by on just four hours,

With the Great Resignation showing no signs of slowing down, efforts to boost your employee experience are more critical than ever. However, these projects are easier said than done. Rhett Power shares a few tips for how you can create a more fulfilled workforce.  In 2021, we saw a record-setting year of employee resignations —

Editor’s Note: Nearly fifty years ago, a young Ram Charan was brought in by GE to create a Crotonville playbook for their managers on how to lead through that period, as they hemorrhaged cash amid soaring inflation. Now, nearly two generations of managers have literally no idea what it’s like to operate in an inflationary

It was two weeks before go-live. A small, dedicated team had worked for six months on the project’s many aspects. The software was ready to go. Publicity for this initiative had been happening for a good while. Training sessions explained the ins and outs of the new system and staff were learning the soft skills

Researchers at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab report that workers are experiencing heightened fatigue in their jobs as a result of “nonverbal overload” caused by video conferencing, a phenomenon dubbed “Zoom fatigue.” Even Zoom’s own CEO, Eric Yuan, admits to experiencing it himself. As the CEO of a leading provider of cloud-enabled connectivity, communications

The most important thing an Enlightened Leader can do is to view people as individuals and, in turn, respect who they are and what they’re all about. When you make everyone feel as though they belong and avoid creating unnecessary divisions, you open the doors to communication, cooperation, innovation, and motivation.  Most of all, you

For years, human capital was abundant. But today, human capital has become a scarce and precious commodity—and it’s only going to get worse. Short-term labor shortages are rising, with Microsoft’s 2021 Work Trend Index finding that 41% of the U.S. workforce is considering leaving their employer this year. Long-term trends are even more disturbing. And long-term trends

The modern corporate move to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion was spawned by the murder of George Floyd and the rise of Black Lives Matter in 2020, but it is on its way to becoming institutionalized across the American business landscape and beyond. “The last two years have made a big difference in DEI,” said

And how your security process may be driving customers away. It’s a common scenario these days: Your customer is returning to take advantage of your spring offers, so they go to log in, but they can’t get in right away. Your site or mobile app now requires them to verify themselves—even though they’ve been a

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

As the Great Resignation continues, it’s incredibly important to get on top of retaining and engaging your workers this year. After all, it could mean the difference between a workforce that’s ready to tackle the day’s challenges and a widespread sense of burnout. Here are some tips you can integrate.   As we were going

Any leader concerned with employee engagement understands that the process is not always fun and games. On the contrary, one of the most challenging endeavors a leader can undertake is sparking passion in people for the role they perform. Moreover, the process becomes exponentially complex when you add developing employees’ critical thinking, strategic planning, and

As people across the US celebrate the achievements and history of African Americans during Black History Month, it’s an uncomfortable fact that the number of Black CEOs is still only less than 1% of Fortune 500 CEOs, even with several years of unconscious bias training across corporate entities. And a NY Times study in September

For many years Artificial intelligence (AI) has been highlighted as a technology that can transform business by allowing companies to analyze much larger and more variable unstructured data sets and information, and use the results to take faster, better actions. However, despite the hype AI applications have not yet become as common as many had

For many organizations, it’s worth considering shelving that prepackaged CRM product in favor of a purpose-built solution. For better and sometimes for worse, the pandemic has provided companies across the business landscape with a technology reality check, followed in many cases by a realization that the generic, one-size-fits-all software on which they had been depending

Expectations of business leaders are changing at lightning (maybe even frightening) speed. The days when their role was to a large extent operational, focused almost exclusively on delivering financial results, are well and truly over. Today’s top executives are expected also to fit the mode of political leaders. And they will be judged on that

Business leaders have touted a welcoming return to the office and new diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Now, they need to convert words to action with a better workplace experience – or risk losing their best employees. The reality of many of today’s workplaces is not cutting it for the modern worker: they’re finding a

It’s hardly news that the last two years of change and disruption have been tough for an entire generation of leaders. What is surprising? The depth of that difficulty. How tired, bewildered—and increasingly paranoid about their ability to keep their jobs—it has left them. Amid the endless reports of the “Great Resignation,” a new survey

A dear friend and business owner recently sent me a blog defining core leadership skills. While the blog had some useful distinctions that I found smart and interesting, it also included some traits that are not, in fact, essential to effective leadership. They are actually personality traits that, to an American sensibility, determine good character

Leaders might feel superhuman powers are needed to retain their employees in 2022, as The Great Resignation rages on. However, my view is that stemming the tide of talent defections is within relatively easy reach for we mere mortal CEOs, so long as our organisations’ values, HR policies and management styles are calibrated in the