Executive Insider

At present, when the World seems chaotic with hysteria about the Pandemic, the media reporting on the doom & gloom consistently and the consequent anxiousness, it is easy to lose our center. A little bit of thought channelizing and redirection of mind may make this phase a lot easier to...

As we are all adopting to this new “normal” of life during COVID-19, we are learning new things about ourselves, our employees, and companies. As CEOs, it is even more incumbent to step up and lead our teams during this time. During a crisis, everybody looks to a leader for...

As COVID-19 cases continue to escalate across the country – and the world – organizations are grappling with how to sustain business while social distancing and self-isolation become the “new normal.” During this period of heightened uncertainty, which has drastically changed the way many organizations operate, remote work is becoming...

Organizational flux, personal concerns and mass uncertainty about the future of work and business all contribute to a uniquely challenging situation for executive leadership teams. Social isolation exacerbates the situation and can lead to a “hunker down” mentality that poses leadership challenges and disrupts normal recovery resources. More than ever,...

Amidst uncertainty, it is more important now than ever for executive leadership to adapt leading change approaches to include a foundation of allyship. Social stigmatization and discrimination elevate during times of fear and anxiety creating challenges for leaders in workspaces. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Asian and Asian-American communities are particularly...

Andrew Chung is the founder and managing partner of 1955 Capital, a U.S.-based venture capital firm that uses technology to solve problems in the developing world. The child of Chinese immigrants, Chung’s first business experience started at age 5 in his parent’s restaurant. It was that experience that first taught...

I know you. I know your kids. I know your partner. I know what you do at work. I know what you don’t do at work for want of time. I know what you do at home. Like a circus performer, I watch you juggle - keeping all of those...

Keep Going. We are all trying to figure out how to live our lives, run our businesses, and survive in another “new normal”, this time in a COVID-19 world. Having passed through the three initial stages of denial, anger, and acceptance at the beginning of this crisis, we are now...

Knowledge, with its wide classifications, can be classified into individual and collective knowledge. Executives recruit followers based on their individual knowledge which refers to the individual’s skills, prior-knowledge, and proficiencies or sometimes referred to competencies. Collective knowledge is part of the executive’s protocol and comes fairly natural at the higher...

Do you have a strong sense of purpose? Can you write down your personal purpose statement in a single sentence or two? An article from Harvard Business Review points out that “fewer than 20 percent of leaders have a strong sense of their own individual purpose. Even fewer can distill...