Executive Insider

A company’s resilience and longevity are often contingent on leadership’s ability to handle adversity. But adversity comes in different shapes and sizes, so how do leaders respond to crises and how do they adapt when business landscapes evolve? The prevailing expectation is that leaders should be able to predict the...

Every CEO has been through or has planned more than one “digital transformation” program.  The term can mean anything from end-to-end value chain reinvention to rip and replace infrastructure, rethinking core business processes, re-platforming ecommerce, or customer experience technologies, or bringing artificial intelligence (AI) tools to the organization.  But at...

If only we could have seen this coming.  The world in which we currently live has caught us by surprise and I expect we will look back from sometime in the future and see where we went wrong, what our successes and failures were, and potentially how we could have...

Every entrepreneur would  love to set up shop in some imagined market everyone else has overlooked. The reality is that any affluent audience for a product or service has been subject to years of saturation targeting and once people decide they trust a provider, it's very hard to convince them...

Leadership has become an overused buzzword that seems to be the new personal development term for our times. If you ask ten people to define what leadership is, you will get a wide variety of answers. Some may say authority, power, influence, while others will focus on vision, charisma, or...

Whether you want to become an investor yourself, or are a startup entrepreneur wanting funding for your own venture, it’s smart to gain some insights from how some of the big money funds have made their money and grown so big. It can reveal their thesis for saying yes to...

View crisis as an opportunity! It sounds strange, right? A crisis is an opportunity for leaders to prove their leadership mettle and strength. Usually, leaders are noticed only during tough times, not during normal times.  When you take Abraham Lincoln, the crises got the best out of him and most...

Innovation should be a CEO priority. The problem is, leadership teams can struggle to inspire innovation in remote workforces. But physical distance shouldn’t prevent organizations from innovating or carving out new market niches. Here are four steps the C-suite can take to inspire innovation in the new normal. COVID-19 has made an...

It took me years to reconcile that Mardi Gras was not a representation of me as a gay man. Rather, it was a celebration of diversity. Likewise, in my professional life, I have realised that diversity in the workplace is more than sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity. Those are traits...

Myths are major challenges globally. They are unrealities that hold the people back. They create wrong assumptions leading to wrong conclusions. They adversely affect society. Hence, they must be debunked with facts and figures. When you look at women and women leaders, there are several myths that prevent them from...