CEO Agenda

What Apple, Coca Cola and Virgin have in common is that they are world renowned and respected brands. What most people don’t realise is that they could be more successful at work if they created their own personal brand - ‘brand you’. Developing a personal brand can be particularly useful...

Ventas Chairman and CEO Debra Cafaro and Carol Meyrowitz, CEO of TJX took the #27 and #51 spots, respectively, on Harvard Business Review's "100 most effective CEOs in the world" list. It would be obvious for anyone to see that the list is dominated by male CEOs, only two of...

The Prince Of Pop Michael Jackson tops highest-earning dead celebrities in the world list of 2014 by Forbes magazine, with an estimated $140 million in earnings over the last 12 months. The King Of Rock And Roll died in 2009 from a drug overdose. He was 50 years old. Coming...

Well, no surprise there, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the “best perfoming CEOs in the world,” according to new rankings in the November issue of Harvard Business Review, even though he ranks among the lowest-compensated executives on the list. Second on the list is John Martin of Gilead Sciences, a...

It is not unusual to see a Starbucks line-up that is multiple people long, sometimes even bursting out onto the street. Coffee has become a daily essential for many people. It is now commonplace to have a coffee maker in every office, a coffee house on virtually every street corner...

Jim O’Neill, former Goldman Sachs chief economist, invented the most famous classification of emerging markets countries in a 2001 research note - Building Better Global Economic BRICs. He grouped together Brazil, Russia, India, and China as the world's emerging economic powerhouses. The original acronym "BRICs" became an association of emerging market...

When Emma Watson gave her inspiring speech about feminism at the United Nations to launch the #HeForShe campaign that aims to tackle gender equality around the world. I - like most others - was blown away by her powerful words on feminism and how everyone, men especially, need to participate...

The question: "Do you consider yourself a feminist?" An award-winning actress, Emma Watson, in her recent speech to the United Nations that became a viral phenomenon, used the simple definition “Feminism: a person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.” Here's a list of 12...

Like most the lists of wealthiest ladies in America, Waltons are on top, Christy, Alice, Ann, and Nancy are four of the richest women in the country and they're worth approximately $82 BILLION combined. Each year the Waltons dominates and 2014 is no exception. The top two spots in the...

Surely, all the talk about the gender equality (the glass ceiling, the locked door, and the sticky floor) but it’s terrifying,  especially when women are only 12% of Forbes’s list of 400 richest people in the United States (and most of them are heiresses). Also among Fortune 500 companies this...