CEO Agenda

I recall reading a comment from Willie Randolph, the former New York Yankee great, about the rejections he received every time he interviewed to be the manager of a professional baseball team. Randolph would state, “it’s their loss.” That statement has continued to stay with me over the course of my...

Every organization addresses the investors into its business differently. The relations depend on stages of business, the impact of investors on the decision-making process, strength and conviction of the Management to make decisions and drive actions. However, whichever stage of evolution and maturity the organization would be in they should...

Just as every organization has a culture, so does every sales team. Values and traditions that sales leaders hold important will shape the attitudes, behaviors, and social norms of employees and departments. As the Harvard Business Review explains in its guide to organizational culture, leaders “set new cultures in motion...

Forging an entrepreneurial path is tough. It’s likely your friends aren’t on the same journey. Your spouse may be simultaneously supportive and stressed (even wary) regarding your choices. As an entrepreneur, you may be asking yourself countless questions — second-guessing your decisions, forging through the daily challenges of running a...

It is fairly easy, in the aftermath of a workplace accident, to blame the management. It is easy to portray those in the C-suite as cold and uncaring for the workers on the floor. Management's task is to make sure workers have no viable reason to make such claims. That...

A recent order by Drug Controller General of India asking states to stop the sale of medicines through e-pharmacies operating without a valid license has once again brought to the fore the current state of turmoil in the pharmacy retail sector. Since the Government of India (GOI) is yet to...

Gone is the time when just classrooms used to be the learning space for kids. In this digitized world, learning has straightforwardly come down to your smartphones. The technology has come up with numerous learning apps for your little ones, whether it's subject-specific or the general one. Kids are more...

CLM software: it's about more than just managing your contracts. It's also an excellent way to gain instant insights into a number of key parts of the business. You don’t have time to keep an eye on every contract, but you still need to know the health of your business...

Despite the Cambridge Analytica Scandal that implicated social networking giant Facebook over issues of selling personal data of its users to advertisers, numbers will still play an important role in shaping businesses. In the era of big data, it matters if you gauge your business activities and gather enough intelligence...

Being a chief executive officer can be a tough position. One would think that being at the top means there's no one else to answer to, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Investors and board directors can often cause a lot of chief executives to buckle under the...