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It’s a Tuesday afternoon and you’ve just wrapped up a phone call with your manager. You let out a long sigh--the call didn’t go the way you anticipated; you spent hours drafting your proposal for a potential client, only for your manager to shoot down your efforts---she points out errors...

Warren Buffett is known as the Oracle of Omaha for his uncanny ability to pick stocks, but he is far more than just a stock picker. He's also one of the greatest managers in the world, as the success of his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway has shown. Here are 10 things...

Social media has been in existence for longer than one can imagine. As a matter of fact, it had its genesis with the advent of computers. The need to connect the computers over a network for sharing information inadvertently gave rise to humans needing to communicate with each other discreetly,...

Global finance is being transformed as billionaires get richer and cut out the middlemen by creating their own “family offices”, personal investment firms that roam global markets looking for opportunities.  Through his personal investment company, R.E. Lee Capital, Hong Kong businessman Calvin Lo, has hired former bankers and philanthropy experts...

As a career-long serial entrepreneur, I’m used to leading through uncertainty. My first technology start-up crashed during the dotcom bubble burst and I financially turned around a company during the Great Recession. We’ve been through unpredictable times before, but 2020 is a particularly turbulent year for entrepreneurs and small businesses....

“Do you see me?” is perhaps the most critical question people have when asked to work with a leader. It implies: Do I matter to you? Do you understand my views and needs? Am I merely a pawn for you to use in achieving your goals, or do you care...

Planning for the succession of a successful, long-serving CEO or, trickier yet, a founder CEO is a difficult topic for any board. It is even more personally challenging for many CEOs. One succession approach that is on the rise in the U.S. over the last decade is to name a...

A new survey finds the average worker is experiencing career burnout at the age of 32, and says working long hours from home in the pandemic is making it worse. This fits the way people traditionally think about burnout in relation to stress. The common perception is that an overload...

2020 has been a tough year to be a leader. Formed in equal parts by constant change, tension across the value chain and reduced spend it has stretched many CEO’s to reconsider their role as they delicately balance a business that moves from insecurity to inconsistently daily. With zero ability...

The 2020 elections could cause a landslide of reputational challenges for American corporations. Last August’s Business Roundtable pledge—with CEOs recognizing employees, communities, the environment and others as stakeholders of equal standing to actual shareholders—has given politicians license to subordinate investors. Even former Vice President Joe Biden, considered by most to...