CEO Agenda

This is not your father’s keynote. You may be an experienced public speaker, but virtual is different, especially if it’s “the big one:” the speech of this quarter, this year, or a lifetime. Perhaps you are the keynote speaker at your now-virtual annual conference, a main presenter at a big...

As with the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution, the global scientific discourse is marked by the advent of technological revolutions, especially Internet, that has now grown to become a colossal social space, a vital element of which is the nature of this technology and the ways in which it...

Too often, we see the negative instead of the positive possibilities that are coming out of a challenging period. A focus on the bad news is particularly the case as we anticipate the post-COVID-19 recovery for the economy and its impact on men and women. We read a lot about...

If you’re a developer, chances are you come across open-source software. At the moment, there are nearly 200,000 ongoing open-source projects around the globe. These projects range from the simple to the incredibly complex. Some projects are one-person shows, while others have thousands of developers who work for and/or with...

More and more organizations are considering an expanded definition of diversity as a way to avoid becoming monocultures. They acknowledge the need to have a diversity of thinking styles and perspectives on their teams to expand the scope of their vision and to uncover innovative solutions. And, the strengths and...

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong doesn’t want to be drawn into talking about the country’s response to the coronavirus – and is still warning about the ‘very grave’ challenge ahead. Yet, outside of the Lion City, others have got plenty to say about the response here. From thorough tracking to...

Many brands invite customers worldwide to connect in digital space. Fitbit, Salesforce, and Sephora are all examples of brands that do this successfully, involving tens of thousands of people. Many more try, and fail. In our pre-COVID world, these online spaces were supplements to offline communities. But in this new...

Telecommuting is hardly a new approach to work, but it’s never been foisted upon teams en masse like during this novel coronavirus pandemic. According to the Pew Research Center, only 7% of employees worked remotely in 2019. Now, new surveys reveal that 42% of workers measure their commutes in feet, not miles, and about 30%...

The world's best economists tried passionately to create the one and only right period profit calculation system, until the end of the 1970's, but the solution had not been found. The problem has been treated up to now as of little importance in the search after other (financial) leading indicators...

The post-modern world that we are living in, globalization is fostering equality and competitiveness, which is undermining traditional clan values and is gradually burning down gender inequalities, those were entrenched earlier. Due to this, more and more women have been foregoing conventional male-dominated workplaces to start their own business. Whether...