CEO Agenda

Investment in talent is a top priority for CEOs in 2021-2022. CEOs recognize that having the right people in place to execute on their business objectives is more important than ever, and they’re looking to their HR leadership team to align the workforce with the company’s business goals. The question...

In the pre-pandemic world, remote work had just begun to make inroads . Primarily, trusted senior level staff were allowed to work remotely as a benefit for a job well done. When COVID hit and companies were forced to require non-essential workers to work from home, the compulsory departure from...

The other day I was watching a Tucker Carlson Talkshow with a focus on Hungary. Several reasons motivated my interest: one was that Hungary is hardly ever mentioned in broadcasts or social media, and if so, only with a heavy negativity, as the bad guys. For example, Mr. Biden referred...

Do you remember the last time you were at a party or a social gathering and someone asked what you do for a living? (With Covid, this seems like a lifetime ago, but think back.) Do you remember describing your job and watching as they lost interest? What if you...

I have never met a CEO who did not want to build a greater culture of trust in their organization. Likewise, most CEOs have tried several different training programs to try and reach this goal, many of which started off with great enthusiasm and focus.  However, in the end, the...

Over the past several years, cloud-native approaches have delivered such astounding improvements to operational agility and efficiency that they’ve allowed for the creation of new companies based on entirely new business models. Nagendra Bandaru provides five key considerations to include in that strategy for CIOs and other C-suite executives that...

There are many academic studies that focus on the organizational and managerial factors that drive sales, profitability and financial performance. Diversity in the workplace is one such area that plays a critical role and is a strategic prerequisite for business success in today’s hypercompetitive global environment. In particular, a diversity strategy...

Due to strong employee resistance and turnover, Google recently backtracked from its plan to force all employees to return back to the office and allowed many to work remotely. Amazon also backtracked on its plans to have a fully office-centric culture and allowed employees to have a hybrid schedule. Apple’s...

Transforming organizations takes years, is hard work, and often leads to disappointing results.  This is common wisdom.  It’s been proven time and again.  It goes with the territory. But it doesn’t have to be that way.   Most approaches to organization transformation are littered with flawed paradigms.  Paradigms that inherently lead...

Modern marketing has changed and tied together branding and PR as close cousins versus the distant family relationship they previously represented. Adding hybrid and work-from-home models disrupted old-school marketing practices even further. Work life for employees has become more like the lives of entrepreneurs. Efficiency now relies more heavily on...