Executive Insider

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...

The world’s most traded commodity has fallen under new pressure as demand fears ripple through the oil patch. The surge in the number of COVID cases around the world and the discontinuance of record purchases of crude by Chinese refiners have produced a chain of events that has the future...

The US Special Operations Forces community is arguably one of the most adaptable, efficient, and effective organizations on the planet today, and it’s because it prioritizes one thing above all else: talent. On the battlefront, the difference between success and failure can mean the difference between life and death. With...

This year has seen the world’s greatest work-at-home experiment take place. After months of adjusting to the changed world, 91 percent of IT leaders worldwide have now shifted cloud strategies to accommodate the new normal, and are now planning the next phase of post-pandemic remote work. The race to recalibrate...

The zoom meeting with a few of my junior team members started out just fine.  As fine as it can be when you are on Zoom meeting number 11th (or was it 12th?) of the day.  Then it happened.  Three of my four kids burst into my home office, excited...