CEO Insights

Perceptions of CEO’s personal brands aren’t typically driven by their wealth, resume or profits. Their personal brands are built on the perception of their listening and empathetic communication skills. In many ways CEOs can use one technique to either leverage or reset this perception – a great handshake. Well, at...

Strengthening employee engagement has been an important goal for many organizations. Why do highly engaged employees matter? Because these employees benefit organizations in numerous ways, such as better performance, better retention, better customer service, better teamwork, higher job satisfaction, and more creativity. In other words, they’re happier at work and...

Being a huge advocate for feedback, regular coaching conversations and performance previews, as opposed to reviews, I believe if dialogue and communication is open, clear, and consistent, there should be no surprises. Feedback given and received regularly is imperative and needs to be provided by you as the leader and...

High-performance work teams are essential to driving organizational results. Simply put, great organizations have great teams. Moreover, as most enterprises today rely on teamwork, it stands to reason that achieving anything of consequence requires good collaboration. Effective teamwork results from building great teams, and great teams create a significant business...

It's been more than 20 years since Novartis Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School, Amy Edmondson, first identified the concept of psychological safety and its importance to work teams. Professor Edmondson defines it as "a belief that no one will be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas,...

You’ve likely heard the adage, “Change is the only constant in life.”  Well, the same is true for business.  The ability to acknowledge, understand, embrace, and actively participate in change is essential to the success of individuals and organizations during challenging times and in times of success. Psychology reveals that...

WHO warned the world about worsening mental health conditions even before the arrival of Covid-19. Pandemic just acted as fuel into the fire, according to the report and surveys it was estimated that the poor mental condition of the citizens will cost much more than $1 trillion to the Indian...

Maximizing the safety of your company’s network and your employees start with human behavior. Fully 90 percent of cyber attacks result from human errors, often from non-IT employees who unintentionally expose the company to bad actors. In a COVID-era, remote working and hybrid offices complicate the issue by increasing exposure...

FAANG stocks are growth stocks. It includes five Nasdaq-listed technology giants Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG). They maintain a dominant position and have several competitive advantages in their respective markets. In the past few years, these stocks gained much higher than what the benchmark...

Pre-pandemic, one in 20 Americans worked from home all of the time. In 2020, those who could work remotely did, resulting in a seven-fold increase in full-time remote workers across America. As vaccinations are rolled out, workers will gradually make their way back to the office and spend less time...