CEO Agenda

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...

After a rather tumultuous year, business leaders want to find and capitalize on strategic growth opportunities. The only catch is that they want those growth opportunities to be effective beyond the immediate future. Here are a few ways small businesses can achieve sustainable growth. Small businesses everywhere are bouncing back...

As time progresses, we will see the companies investing in their employees’ education reap the rewards of a more engaged workforce, better progress on DE&I initiatives, and above-average recruitment and retention – all issues that keep CEOs awake at night. Corporate education is an imperative strategy for companies to equip...

More than a year into the pandemic, it seems like work-from-home life is here to stay. This has left some employers wondering how to best support their remote workers. When it comes to meeting team members’ health needs, virtual care solutions offer tremendous benefits. Over the past year, work-from-home employment...