CEO Advisory

At every point in your startup’s lifecycle, you will need to face some decisions regarding funding. No matter how absolutely groundbreaking and fantastic your ideas are, the implementation requires resources- both financial and material. As a founder, you’ll be faced time and time again with figuring out how and where...

A wise person once said, “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” This is such an obvious and simple statement, yet so many of us struggle with being our authentic selves. We pretend to be someone else to guard against our insecurities or perceived inadequacies. But when a person—especially a...

What is burn out? As per WHO- World Health Organisation, burn out is an occupational phenomenon and is defined as “A syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed”. Burn out is becoming more and more visible these days as more people have started...

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous -- always on, everywhere. With two-thirds of the world’s population on mobile, these devices have become the most personal and powerful digital channel for people to interact with each other and directly with brands. Users are turning to their devices to search for information, purchase...

How often while working on a task or project have you thought, ‘it’s not done yet’, ‘it’s not good enough,’ or ‘I couldn’t share that…it has to be better’? We may think what we’re working on isn’t ‘good enough… yet.’ Not good enough to share it, send it, ship it,...

Business owners have a lot of numbers, metrics, and ratios to worry about. One that tends to get overlooked is business credit score—a number that represents how creditworthy your business is to lenders. A business credit score doesn’t factor into many financial equations. On the surface, having a high (or...

Self-employment has been flourishing over the past decade. People are more confident to sell their ideas and hit the road to success in this era of internet and technology. With some basic skills like how to create a website and how to market your products online, people can showcase their...

Traditional top-down approaches to managing change have been proven not to work, especially in an age where hierarchical organisations are being replaced by flatter, open, inclusive organisations and agile teams. In ‘The Irrational Side of Change Management’ by Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller, a McKinsey survey of 3,199 executives around...

Ever wonder how two people who are evaluating the exact same person or situation can reach such wildly different conclusions?  This is not only imperative for a CEO to understand, but also essential for all of us when it comes to making sense of today’s complex world. Also, when it...

If you’re in a position where you need to influence the decisions and actions of staff, suppliers or customers, then you may have noticed that ‘just being yourself’ doesn’t work that well for everyone. While you may have a handful of people that are influenced by your approach, you’ll also...