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The high rate of CEO turnover in the past few years is unusual given that the business climate is relatively strong. While most of the churn is through planned succession, many chief executives are being held to higher performance standards than in the past and are expected to meet or...

Sahel Al Majali is Chairman of the Mid Group, a London-based construction company that he founded in 2014. Over the past five years, the Mid Group has established a reputation as a premier offsite construction firm, winning a number of awards for its projects throughout the South East of England....

I like to challenge myself with adventures I pursue in my personal life, whether it’s mountain climbing, heli-skiing or regular fitness workouts. Instead of distracting from my leadership and our organization’s culture, living an adventurous life increases my contributions to our business. Contrary to what you might think, the payoff...

Our workplaces are becoming increasingly dehumanized. This may be, in part, down to a deeply ingrained belief that pressure ignites performance. Many organizations are so focused on rewarding productivity and output that they have become obsessed with profit over people. We are so busy ‘doing’ that many of us have...

The global inflation has been fairly stable since long and the outlook remains the same right now, the increased risk is that the central banks could be challenged if the situation changes. Currently, American investors have an increasing fear of rising inflation, or they are at least buying more bonds...

Today’s competitive business environment is no longer about simply being successful in an isolated part of the market. Successful businesses will no longer be able to focus solely on their primary industries. The new game is one of competition across different markets. What good companies do today is find and...

This past September, Vox employees learned of their company’s merger with New York Media by reading about it in The New York Times. There was no announcement from leadership or transition plan from human resources, just a report in the news media that left people at both organizations rattled and scrambling for answers....

Question: Why did you start your company? Even back to 2010, Ukraine was already known for the Development talent it has. With its very much engineering-like traditional educational system, with dozens of thousands of highly educated and very sharp-minded people getting to the “wild” market of the 90s, it was...

Any 130-year old company has seen technological changes and has had to learn tough lessons in order to continue to grow and sustain its mission through the challenges that those changes bring. This is especially true for Burrelles, the industry’s oldest media data company, which I’m CEO of. It’s even...

Climate change is no longer a distant outlier that can be left off the boardroom agenda or hidden at the back of the annual report. It is here right now, already affecting millions of lives across the globe. Late 2019’s Australian bushfires, stretching across 600 miles, affecting nearly 10 million...