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In today’s world, it’s hard to imagine a more important skill for CEOs than the ability to create and develop high performing teams in their organizations.  I’m sure this fact contributed greatly to Google undertaking Project Aristotle, an in-depth study designed to identify the ingredients for effective teams - so...

While initialisms are found on ancient Roman coins, acronyms didn’t start to appear until the 20th Century. According to the New York Times Magazine the word acronym itself wasn’t coined in English until 1943. Yet, for a relatively new concept it seems like we are drowning in a sea of...

With emerging startup culture being so rampant all over the world, many young entrepreneurs are not hesitating to build their ideas into a business vision. It wouldn’t be surprising to say that they face a lot of setbacks during the process, but the end is more than worth it. Many...

Hostility between working women is trending. A study of one thousand professionals on leadership qualities found women consistently rate female colleagues lower than their male colleagues on workplace competencies. Women tend to judge men on their performance, but judge each other on appearance, life choices, and demeanor as well. Instead...

A number of years ago, I developed a presentation for a Seton Hall University symposium.  It covered a familiar, yet important topic for the mid-to-senior level executives in attendance. The title: Speaking Truth to Power.  It included a brief history of speaking truth to power, which as you may imagine,...

Take a minute to ask yourself how often you spend time with people who disagree with your worldview.  How often do you step outside your industry sector, or for that matter, inside the minds of leaders within your own business ecosystem to take what William Ury calls “the view from...

In a season in which the Nigerian oil and gas industry is associated with different ills, including pollution, corruption, and conflicts, it is refreshing to learn about business leaders in the sector who have steered clear of these familiar maladies while building monumental projects that are equally industry-defining. The Nigerian...

Across the developing world, there reside children and young adults with the potential and ambition to become doctors, programmers, community organizers––participants in and contributors to a more robust global economy. The problem, however, is those people who possess that potential––and which, combined, account for billions if not trillions of dollars...

With the sudden collapse of Icelandic budget airline Wow Air and India's Jet Airways in mind, we at the CEOWORLD magazine decided to compile a list of airlines that went out of business since January 2018 until the present day. To identify airlines that went out of Business in 2018-2019,...

It wasn’t always this way, was it? In 1982 First Lady Nancy Reagan famously coined and branded the phrase ‘Just say No,’ which was meant for children tempted by drug use in their lives. It was notably simple, and it worked for a while.  But somewhere along the nearly 40-year...