CEO Agenda

The breakneck pace of technology and industry means that the skill sets needed to get work done are evolving quickly. Finding highly skilled workers in today’s tight labor market can be tough. A recent survey of human resources managers revealed that many businesses are struggling to fill jobs and that the skills gap...

Some people may think they have their career path figured out and that they will enjoy what they do, but that’s not true. Most people change their mind and want to do something else. Joseph Maenza is one of those people. He studied law from the University of Illinois and...

Look around you. What do you see? Do you have as many female employees as male employees? What about senior management? What’s the ratio in terms of the sexes? Furthermore, how well are minority groups represented in your organization and your leadership team? And, beyond the workforce, have you considered...

As you strive for a successful accounting career, you will come across a number of challenges. But don’t worry. We are here to help you with some of them. Here are three useful Excel functions that’ll help you on your journey to becoming a successful accountant. So, buckle up and...

Great internal communication among colleagues and teams is a prerequisite for great external communication with customers. And great communication with customers often results in high customer satisfaction and company growth. Besides, there is a direct correlation between employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CX). Research, for instance, shows that companies...

When looking into global economic uncertainty, it is important to note that there is more than one contributing factor that can lead to major fluctuations in prices of fuel and other valuable commodities. However, with ongoing political issues between the US and China as well as the ongoing negotiations between...

Valuing a company is the easy part; creating that value in the first place so you can measure it is a more formidable task. Determining value is more art form than science. True value can only be established at the time of a transaction, where willing buyer tenders payment and...

At one time, ice cream was a neighborhood affair. Family proprietors froze ice cream in back rooms, sold it in front parlors, and lived upstairs. Then modern technology revolutionized, and in my opinion, ruined, ice cream. By 1920, new modern factories had flooded the market with mass produced ice cream....

The outbreak of the Covid-19 now starts to be noticeable in the global economy, though investors have generally taken the situation in a surprisingly calm manner, but in some areas of the financial markets, the moves have already been of a certain magnitude. The Covid-19 virus has started to unravel...

Kusto Group aims to translate its own success into a booming agribusiness industry across Kazakhstan. Yerkin Tatishev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kusto Group, has a dream to modernize and expand the meat production industry in Kazakhstan. Daniel Kunin, a managing director at Kusto Group says, this effort...