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Since the beginning of 2024, there has been a consistent stream of CEO departures from leading CX tech firms, including AWS, NICE, Freshworks, Twilio, Vonage, Medallia, Calabrio, and Luware. This trend raises questions about what might be unsettling the leadership in these companies. One significant factor in this upheaval is...

Benjamin Graham, the intellectual father of stock analysis, is often quoted as saying, “In the short run the stock market is a voting machine; in the long run it is a weighing machine.” His comment contains two crucial insights. First, in the short run, stock returns are driven mainly by...

European CEOs’ assessments of business conditions inside and outside of Europe have diverged to the highest levels ever recorded. Concerns over persistently weak economic growth are pushing many corporate executives to prioritize commercial opportunities abroad. The 2024 biannual survey of business leaders by the European Round Table for Industry (ERT),...

Three Reasons Why Business Leaders Should Support Employees’ Start-Up Ventures. Despite the romanticised image of the successful entrepreneur as having launched their business in some dusty garage, the majority of founders come from within established organizations. It’s at these “parent companies” where future entrepreneurs develop the knowledge, skills, and connections...

A significant number of Wipro’s public shareholders have expressed disapproval of the cash compensation package for CEO Thierry Delaporte, according to recent regulatory filings. Nearly 80 percent of shareholders voted against a resolution to award Delaporte $4.33 million in cash compensation, highlighting a rare instance of minority shareholder dissent regarding...

We all know the importance of regularly reviewing and renewing expectations for ourselves and our team. However, investing the time to do this is often overlooked. We often get caught up in the “doing” of leading and working and fail to make what I call “being” time, where we reflect and...

General intelligence (IQ) tests have a long and controversial history. However, there are a few things that most experts today agree on. IQ can be measured; it stays the same as early as age 5 and it can predict many good things, like how well you will do in your...

The impact that a manager can have on you is often not considered until it is exceptional at either end of the spectrum. Thankfully there are experiences where a people manager makes a significant positive impact: however, mine was not one of them. As a leader now, I fail to...

The saying goes “Don’t Judge a Book by the Cover” but the fact is we all do. Perhaps a more accurate saying is “You only get one chance to make a good first impression,” so you should make the most of it. That’s why, in your career as a C-level...

In late April 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made an historic decision when it passed a rule to ban non-compete clauses for all workers in U.S. industries, with a small exception for senior executives. Far from hurting business, the new ban makes everyone a winner, employees and businesses alike,...