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It’s tragically common for people in organizations to be promoted up the hierarchy to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They are promoted because they did well in their previous job, not based on their potential to meet the needs of the new...

In wake of the subsiding covid pandemic, one trend that we’ve seen across the corporate world is the implementation of new corporate health platforms and resources for employees. While many businesses and companies are more accommodating in the event covid, the corporate world has seen first-hand how traumatic the events...

In a rebound from the pandemic and fuelled by enormous government stimulus and stored up consumer spending power, companies are hungry for opportunities to invest and grow internationally. For US firms, the world can look like a challenging place. Whatever it may feel like to those based there, the US...

The marketing strategy has many small steps that have to be completed successfully in order for the company to be profitable. However, there are four big umbrellas that define how the layout should be structured. Whenever we have to think about big plans and long-term goals we start from the...

We didn’t really have a formal ‘culture’ for the first…many years of our existence.   I had a sort of sense of what I wanted us to look/feel/behave like, but it was never committed to paper, never repeated out loud/with any frequency, and as such was basically left to the interpretation...

A CEO change is always an exciting moment for all parties involved. Boards invest immense time and resources to find the next CEO for the firm. Stakeholders, inside and outside of the firm, are on their toes, as they try to anticipate where the new leader will take the organization....

Acquiring a new customer can be up to five times more expensive than retaining a current one. Similarly, just a 5% boost in customer retention can increase profits by more than 90%. Rhett Power shares tips for company leaders looking to gain loyal lifelong fans. In 2021, companies should focus...

Whether it may be considered as a trend or a need for privacy, many successful CEOs own idyllic islands with luxury amenities and places of indoor or outdoor activities. Let's see which private islands are owned by famous CEOS. Necker Island: As soon as Richard Branson heard in 1978 that...

Traditionally, corporate culture was seen a supporting player in the world of business. Important, sure – maybe even be a key contributor in hiring and retaining talent - but not part of the engine that was driving organizational performance. As our understanding of the role culture plays has evolved, so...

As a company grows, C-level leadership becomes removed from the day-to-day and can lose touch with what’s happening in the company. As a result, they can be shielded from problems in the organization and thinking they have one type of culture when, in fact, the people who work for them...