CEO Agenda

There is a myth that businesses are run basically about making profits. The truth is that businesses are run basically about adding value to customers and clients with an emphasis on ethics. When you look at entrepreneurs including Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk, they...

For decades, senior leaders have treated the classic symptoms of a less-than-optimal business operation—low employee engagement, less-than-stellar customer service, poor retention rates, and barely acceptable productivity levels—rather than the problem: An unhealthy company culture. So, despite spending billions of dollars over the past three decades, we've made zero progress. And...

Just like the phone replaced the telegraph, television supplanted radio, and the Internet changed everything, the remote worker trend that skyrocketed during the pandemic is poised to change the world of work forever. In 2020 companies had to move quickly and adapt to remote working on the fly. Even without...

The Delta variant makes it clear the pandemic and all its associated stressors are likely to continue for some time. Employees will need to call on every possible reserve of resilience if they are to continue to meet their obligations, and ideally to thrive in all aspects of their lives....

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...