Executive Agenda

Greece’s Golden Visa: The PEARL of Europe’s Investment Migration Framework As geopolitical tensions, wealth taxes, and digital nomadism reshape the global mobility landscape, residency-by-investment programs (RBIs) have evolved from options of convenience to strategic assets. Introduced in 2013, the Greece Golden Visa program was Europe’s answer to elite investors seeking effortless EU...

For over thirty-five years, I’ve been advising businesses that are working (or contemplating working) abroad on the cultural differences they will encounter. Essentially, how to work more effectively, more profitably, “elsewhere”. For many that meant having to deal with culturally different ways of getting things done that they did not know existed and did not know how...

Billionaire challenges the MBA default Liemandt’s comments on Codie Sanchez’s “Big Deal” podcast cut through years of polite debate on graduate business education. Asked directly whether ambitious young people should get an MBA, he answered with an unambiguous “no,” calling it an easy decision in his mind. In his view,...

A “Measured but Competitive” Year for Executive Pay Executive compensation in 2026 is being shaped by two opposing forces: boards face intense scrutiny on pay and inequality, yet they still operate in a global talent market where top leaders remain scarce and mobile. Surveys of compensation committees and HR leaders...

With immeasurable love and celebration of a Legend’s life lived so well, we bid farewell to Dharmendra, the legendary icon of Indian cinema, a man whose presence lit up screens and hearts for over six decades. More than a superstar, he was a symbol of humility, warmth, and the timeless...

The narrative of Hercules at the crossroads has shaped much of Western thought, encapsulating the eternal struggle between a life of comfort or ease, and a life of virtue. The choice Hercules is offered at these crossroads epitomises the human struggle with self-discipline and endurance. In the myth, the young...

A Quiet but Profound Regime Change in Energy Energy is entering a new era defined less by scarcity and more by chronic abundance in oil and gas, alongside an accelerating build-out of clean power. Global oil supply is rising faster than demand, creating a structural surplus as new production in the Middle East, Latin America, the United States, and other regions comes online. At the same time, weak demand growth, particularly in transport fuels,...

Founder vs. Professional CEO: Distinct Wealth Journeys There's a stark divide in how Fortune 500 CEOs accumulate wealth: the founder-CEOs, rare but spectacular, and the professional "hired-hands" who command multi-million compensation at scale. Only about 4.8% of today’s Fortune 500 companies are still led by their founder. Among these, names...

CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility – is a fashionable acronym. It has powerful marketing potential, especially if the communications department is good at creating an attractive story. Unfortunately, CSR often remains little more than a marketing tool. The impacts that the efforts of companies have had in bringing about social...

A friend once told me: “You work with innovation, so you must have many ideas.” I loved that moment because it showed how easily innovation is misunderstood. Having many ideas is wonderful, but ideas alone are not innovation. If they were, every brainstorming session would turn companies into industry leaders....