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People often join a network because they’re inspired by its purpose, whether that’s to improve a community’s school lunch program or protect a sprawling wildlife preserve. But people stay for a very different reason: who is involved. Which means who is part of a network is just as important, if not more important, than why

While we are in college, we do worry about the future from time to time. However, it takes us a while to realize that the end is approaching and many decisions will have to be taken. What happens after graduation becomes a defining phase of life. What you thought you would be by the end

When, as a young man, I set my sights on the future and imagined what it would feel like to have achieved my ambitions, I always pictured a serene version of myself, surveying his achievements with satisfaction, certain of his place in the world. While some of my youthful hopes remain unfulfilled (scoring in the

We live in a culture that is far more focused on procuring new goods than on improving existing investments. People are more inclined to buy a new shirt online than to take a good one to the tailor. My field of cybersecurity is no different. According to the IT analysis firm Gartner, spending on IT

There is no better word to describe Elon Musk, than an ‘entrepreneur’. To Musk, entrepreneurship is more of a personality guided by high intellectual character and proper management skills. The success story of Elon Musk does not depict more of an employee in him, but a creator, manager, and developer of economy-based giant investments. His

The pandemic plus technology has transformed the paradigm for leadership and executive recruiting. Today, the degree of emotional investment that candidates devote to the process has diminished, resulting from innovations in video conferencing technology combined with the acceleration of the remote working environment. This phenomenon has been further advanced by the global pandemic and the

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that CEOs need to make around

Faced with the ongoing effects of the pandemic and the uncertain future that lies ahead, every company needs to innovate to set itself apart and succeed. Most seem to realize this fact. According to a 2021 Boston Consulting Group survey, 75% of companies rank innovation among their top three priorities. That’s a 10% rise over

Rustam Gilfanov is an IT entrepreneur, and a venture partner of the LongeVC Fund. Family  Rustam Gilfanov is 38 years old. He was born on January 6, 1983 in the Perm Territory (the village of Basim). In his childhood Rustam was interested in science fiction and mathematical sciences. Education  As soon as Rustam got his

Big data has become the culture whisperer of business, telling us everything we want to know and much more. Through algorithms, AI and new tools, CEOs have made numbers talk in the same old-fashioned way as picking petals off a daisy. Employees love me, employees love me not. At what point do we stop listening,

Founders and CEOs crave fast growth, often above all else. It means massive funding rounds and eye-popping valuations, infusions of top talent, bandwidth to focus on more strategic tasks, as well as the all-important runway to build great products, get them to a larger market and scale the company to unicorn and beyond. But before

The clues of what you can be teaching the world are in your life experiences. Today a shared a post on Facebook which originally was supposed to just be a brief snapshot of how I help people create their own online courses and how I got there, but it turned into a little more than

The importance of an inclusive work environment is on the minds of many leaders today. Exclusionary behaviors are dangerous for a business, with the impacts extending from dysfunctional workplaces and difficulties with recruitment all the way to serious legal issues. Exclusionary behaviors can have a significant negative impact on business performance. When people feel excluded,

One of the most significant challenges facing company leaders today is finding and retaining top-performing talent. Access to the best and brightest has never been easier, as we remove geographical barriers for many jobs. However, this ease of access can work against talent strategies as workers have more options than ever before. The era of

Paul Glantz has practiced empathy as a company chief for a long time. At Emagine Entertainment several years ago, he began connecting with audiences by starring personally in the shut-off-your-cellphones pre-feature video shorts on the chain’s movie screens. One time, Glantz appeared as a Jedi knight, then as a shark during the “Baby Shark” meme

American and global businesses have been through the coronavirus buzzsaw, and now CEOs know that nothing ever will really be the same, Bill Koenigsberg believes. There will be no such thing as a post-pandemic landscape that settles into some predictable new picture, the CEO of Horizon Media told Chief Executive. The indiscriminate edge of Covid

Do you feel disconnected from the people you work with? You’re not alone. Nearly 70% of workers surveyed by Front Page in 2020 said that they felt disconnected from their teammates, a problem made worse by more and more companies going remote. When employees feel alone or disconnected, they’re more likely to jump ship and

Like many global companies, we’re considering how best to bring employees back into the workplace as some countries begin to return to some semblance of normalcy. We recognize things will need to be different. Some call it the “new normal,” but I prefer another phrase I’ve heard recently, the “next normal.” Because, if you think

The pandemic has led to a fundamental shift in the way employees view their relationship with work. This has impacted health, disability and community services more than any other sectors. To say that it’s a seller’s market in the non-profit workforce is a gross understatement.  This could be ‘the Great Resignation’ on steroids – and it’s only just begun.

Despite the shocks and perplexities that year 2020 posed to the world, it was also a year of glory and unprecedented growth for CPG companies. Businesses operating in this sector not only played a critical role in fulfilling fast altering demands of customers as they curated their habits around the new normal, they also did