CEO Insights

It’s no secret that it costs money to onboard a new employee. According to the Human Capital Benchmarking Report by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), the average cost-per-hire is $4,129.00 with an average of 42 days to fulfill a position. So, it’s incredibly frustrating when your new hires...

Outbound lead generation is key to ensuring predictable revenue growth, but businesses sometimes run into common pitfalls. For instance, leaders often rely exclusively on one channel and anticipate immediate results. But by investing in a multichannel strategy, leaders can reap the benefits of a holistic approach and see sales success....

Resilience was the leadership buzzword of 2020, and for good reason. While some leaders shone and were totally in their element, many learned that they weren’t as resilient as they thought; and their weaknesses were exposed for all to see. On top of that, many found that real resilience is...

Some women are capable enough combining leadership roles in giant companies with being good mothers and supportive partners for their husbands. In this article, we present ten female CEOs with significant qualifications. Mary Barra – General Motors Company Mary Barra started working for General Motors in 1980 when she was...

Productivity is the gamechanger in terms of improving your performance yet so many articles skirt around the subject by discussing efficiency vs effectiveness as if they were a set of mutually exclusive options rather than complementary concepts which are in fact two sides of the same coin. The economic definition...

Over the years, I’ve seen many promising partnerships collapse because of internal conflicts at one or more of the partners. In fact, I would argue that lack of internal alignment is the number one reason partnerships fail, either while they are being built or, even worse, during implementation. In a...

We can quit our jobs or our degrees, but we can’t quit our life purpose. So our real task in life is to discover our unique life purpose. The challenge in finding our purpose is that we are programmed to continually look for the linear and simple answer. But often...

Countless companies struggle to find the right software solution to meet their varied needs. The result is a tangled mess of software, spreadsheets, and systems. To find the right software for your business, you have to consider what you’ll need as you grow rather than what you need at this...

What is free time anyway? Free means release from captivity or acting as you wish. Time is a plan or schedule of when something should happen. Free time means acting as you wish when something should happen. It’s almost an oxymoron like “working vacation”. If I said to someone, “you...

If your company is stuck in the minor leagues, your hiring practices could be to blame. Unlike in the competitive world of professional sports, organizations often post generic job descriptions, hire without a “tryout,” and are too slow to make cuts. By shifting your mindset to hiring only “A” players...