Executive Insider

At executive level, uncontrolled ego can kill a business. Recent research shows 57 percent of employees have left a job because of poor leadership. Losing top talent cost Australian businesses $3.8 billion over 12-months. Ego: what is it? Simply put, it’s what keeps us alive and safe. It’s the thing...

It doesn't take long for one minor incident to become a significant crisis for a company and its leaders. Every day, we see a new story in the news about public missteps and private mistakes that can have a lasting effect on an organization. We see leaders having to leave...

“I believe that if you don’t disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.”  — Mindy Grossman, CEO & President of WW (formerly Weight Watchers) Leadership excellence is not acquired overnight. Like a fine wine, it develops more character and a polished finish with each passing year and experience....

You have watched the Hero’s Journey play out in every Disney movie since you were a child. In real life, it usually starts with a crisis that sparks the deeper call. The kingdom (be it your team, your organization or society) is in grave danger and you must embark on...

Take it from a couples counselor and client relationship consultant: it’s always tempting to compare your relationship with your client to a marriage. It’s also true that the agency-client relationship, whether it’s marketing, advertising, or any other service, is far more complex. It involves the pressure of high-stakes objectives and...

Showing up powerfully as a leader today is more accessible and harder to do. Billions of people use the Internet and social media, which offers leaders more straightforward access to communicate. It creates the ability for leaders to build their personal brands in a far more efficient way. While this...

Employees who thrived through the past year are undoubtedly excellent self-leaders. When life is demanding, unpredictable and uncertain, those who lead themselves from the inside out excel. They have greater focus, direction, and stability. As will be illustrated through some examples below, their capacity to navigate change, ensures they are...

Of all the things that Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos has accomplished in his storied career, none may be as important as the orderly retirement he recently announced. Bezos, 57, had given no sign that he was going to step away from Amazon. The global pandemic and the...

When it comes to COVID-19, it seems we’re nearing the light at the end of the tunnel. With this sense of calm comes a conundrum, however: Executives have been laser-focused on simply keeping afloat — but priorities that were less pressing through the pandemic are coming back into focus. Here...

The economic impact of the pandemic has been disproportionately hard on women entrepreneurs, according to research published by Tatiana S Manolova, Candida G Brush, Linda F Edelman, and Amanda Elam in SAGE Journals. This extra impact comes from more than one direction, including the fact that women-run businesses tend to...