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As the Chief Financial Officer of Blockchain.com, Macrina Kgil brings a successful career as a financial professional who has been the driver behind multibillion-dollar transactions. In a recent interview, Macrina Kgil reflected on her career, leadership style, and the opportunities that come with leading the financial operations of one of...

Money is linked to human existence for so many years that define our way of thinking and the way we finally live our lives. What do they have to offer anyway and why do we constantly chase them? Today, we will wonder about what money has historically offered to people...

It was summer 2015 and the Golden State Warriors were battling it out with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA finals. James Whitaker had flown out to Oakland with his brother-in-law to catch a game, planning to rent a car for their quick trip. “He told me we didn’t need...

Successful leaders know that we can control only 3 things in our life: our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. If we can take charge over those, we can lead our organizations, and our lives, to our own vision of success.  That vision may differ for successful leaders: some want to grow...

Most executives, owners and high-level managers are familiar with the basics of performance management.  This term generally refers to keeping track of employees’ performance by encouraging more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff via formal and informal processes and evaluations.  Performance management is generally where we...

As COVID-19 winds down and employees return to the office, companies need to remember that (paraphrasing Cyndi Lauper) “employees just want to have fun.” Most white-collar employees have been cooped up for over a year, isolated and stressed on many levels: professionally, socially, and even physically. Being human, they need...

Biotechnology is said to be a very tricky subject but the ones who opt for the course and complete it are sorted with their careers. Biotechnology is one of the famous courses in the world and ranked high as well. When you study biotechnology, the course will give you a...

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...

Whether you call it a strategy, a goal, or simply an effort at improvement, any initiative you as a leader drive in order to significantly move your team or organization forward will fall into one of two categories. The first mainly requires a stroke of the pen and is relatively...

I had always considered myself as adventurous but one day, I realised how wrong I had been in my self-assessment. It was the day when I accidently turned right at my garden gate. I realised that I had never turned right at that junction. It was much more than a...