CEO Agenda

We recently published an article about the story of Tony Hsieh. The man is an active entrepreneur who will probably leave his print in the business world for the bold decision to remove the directors from his company as a form of self-organization. We don't suggest moving forward to such...

As humans, we all can expect to experience an ambush of some kind during our lives. In particular, the coronavirus pandemic that came from out of the blue this year and infected hundreds of thousands around the globe, causing more than 1.3 million deaths to date, also shuttered businesses, affecting 3.3 billion...

If you’ve had trouble sleeping the past year, you’re not alone. There’s no doubting the uncertainties of the last year have kept many CEOs awake at night with studies showing insomnia rates rising by as much as 37 percent. Questions filling the heads of many executives, management teams, and boards...

The problem we face now is COVID COVID has caused huge stress in our lives. It has caused our businesses to either speed up, because we are one of those companies which provides food stuffs, health protection materials or logistics to keep vital business moving. Or, more likely, it has...

Whether you work as a member of a big team or you hold a leadership role in your company, whichever your situation is, taking care of your image and the relationships with your colleagues will not only help your productivity at work but will also set the ground to a...

May I have a drumroll, please? I am about to impart to you some hard-earned knowledge about patience. Are you ready? Here goes: Patience is a choice. Now, I know that some of you are disappointed. You probably expected me to point out that patience is a virtue. While I...

Creativity is the soul of fashion photography, and not everyone can do justice to it. Many people aim to venture into the industry and only a few of them become renowned for their skills and contribution. The fashion industry has been growing as fast as it could, which means it...

Emotions have been pushed out of the workplace for far too long.  What are emotions At The Happiness Index we combine neuroscience with real time data to help companies achieve emotional intelligence at scale. Clive Hyland, our Head of Neuroscience, has always described emotions as sensations throughout the body which...

Having worked now for over 20 years in the field of people and behaviour it’s become crystal clear how important values are. They are at the heart of all decision-making and actions. Which is why it’s worth reflecting whether we are consciously steering our conscience into praxis: the alignment of...

Design is the ‘in’ word — but what does it mean? And should you care? The word ‘design’ has become a substitute for what we called ‘insight-led innovation’ when I was starting my career at Unilever. (And it was probably a substitute for an even earlier term before that!) I...