CEO Insights

Novelist James Lane Allen said, “Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.” In a crisis, who do leaders look out for first? Do they rush to the rails, first into the lifeboats? Or stay on deck, looking after the ship, its crew, and all passengers? Selfishness in leadership can...

“Soft leadership can be defined as the process of setting goals; influencing people through persuasion; building strong teams; negotiating them with a win-win attitude; respecting their failures; handholding them; motivating them constantly; aligning their energies and efforts; recognizing and appreciating their contribution in accomplishing organizational goals and objectives with an...

If you want to gain useful information about life, strategy, and business a good way is by reading leadership books. Becoming a leader means being influential, making decisions, and be followed by other people. If you are a business leader or you want to become one is worth paying attention...

Forward-leaning companies seeking to move beyond average recognize the incompatibility of top-down hierarchical structures with the agility required in today’s marketspace. The quantity of information to be processed, education, and different values and beliefs of a younger work force are just some of the paradigms challenging the continued efficacy of...

Philosopher and psychologist William James once noted, "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." In addition to death, suffering, and financial losses resulting from the pandemic, COVID-19 has been a time where leaders can and will have a lasting and memorable impact....

During the pandemic, we have seen the best and worst of behaviours – exemplified by political leaders, with the seemingly correct leadership of Jacinda Ardern in her handling in NZ, against a stunning comparison of Trump, Putin and now China. We have seen incredible collaboration, and a light at the...

The focus on getting women in executive positions has increased significantly in the past several years, but despite efforts, such as mentoring and corporate quotas, there’s still a huge hill to climb. We’re still not seeing these strategies translate to significant appointments or promotions. Yes, women are gaining more seats...

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...

If only we could have seen this coming.  The world in which we currently live has caught us by surprise and I expect we will look back from sometime in the future and see where we went wrong, what our successes and failures were, and potentially how we could have...

We must seize the remarkable opportunity that has presented itself during this global health crisis and work to become the Greatest Generation 2.0 Consider the actions that Salesforce’s Marc Benioff took at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis – calling for other CEOs to take a 90-day "no layoff pledge"...