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Effective organisations need a clear mission, a strong culture, the right organisational design and, of course, great leadership. Leadership doesn’t just mean the CEO. Successful CEOs assemble a team around them to help in all these areas. A priority when taking on a leadership role is to ask yourself –...

The reason that you should never say yes to the first offer (or counteroffer) is that it automatically triggers two thoughts in the other person’s mind. Let’s say that you’re thinking of buying a second car. The people down the street have one for sale, and they’re asking $10,000. That...

Many of the challenges leaders face when facilitating in-person meetings, like keeping the energy of the group up, are amplified online. But, there are ways to cultivate creative energy between participants remotely. If you’re leading an online meeting, your job is to bring creative energy into the remote workspaces of...

All negotiations, no matter how big or small, rely on the techniques of discovery and fluidity. Discovery involves learning the other party’s true desires and fluidity involves taking whatever form is needed to find a way through. These same qualities equate to essential tactics used in the martial arts. Applying...

Over the past several years, cloud-native approaches have delivered such astounding improvements to operational agility and efficiency that they’ve allowed for the creation of new companies based on entirely new business models. Nagendra Bandaru provides five key considerations to include in that strategy for CIOs and other C-suite executives that...

After an unprecedented period of disruption and uncertainty on almost all fronts, business leaders around the globe are grappling with how to welcome employees back to the office, even while the pandemic rages on in many parts of the globe. The office we used to know is a construct of...

Family-owned businesses are and have always been the foundation to a free society’s economic success, and, with this reality also comes the opportunity and challenges of working professionally together when its family and non-family blended together for the organization’s daily operations. Balancing these realities, along with legacy employees expectations, sacred-cows,...

The executive team of Etres Technologies spent the last year discussing a strategy to offer a new product into its current market. This new “story of the future” had the potential to significantly benefit both customers and the business. After much planning, the CEO and executive team gave the green...

Travel restrictions due to Covid-19 pandemic is the main obstacle for 50% of Europeans who want to travel internationally. A smaller number of European travelers (44%) are not confident to travel because of health risks and just 22% of Europeans admitted that the cost of travelling prevents them from taking...

Self Financial recently conducted a survey with the participation of 1,147 people in the United States. The survey tried to define the working conditions of the employees in the USA during the pandemic. More specifically, 42% of respondents explained that they work longer hours from the beginning of the pandemic,...