Data is one of the world’s most influential currencies and can be converted into different kinds of values. At magazine app Readly, with users from 50 markets, we now sit on 34 billion data points. We think solar power is a great analogy for data. We keep using it and...

What’s your superpower? What is your unique leadership ID – that ‘thing’ that has been with you throughout your whole life and that shows up again and again to help give you that edge? As a child, I had a recurring dream that I could fly. We lived in a...

Most business leaders agree that digitalization, which entails turning manual processes to enhanced, automated ones through digital technology, is essential for long-term business performance. In fact, 91% of all companies have some kind of digital initiative underway. Top-level executives, in particular, recognize the need for process automation. According to a...

If immersing ourselves in challenging situations can boost our growth, what can we learn from running a 350-kilometre ultramarathon? When I raced the Delirious W.E.S.T. 200-miler along the Bibbulman track in Western Australia, I expected to gain new insights. What astonished me was that running for almost 69 hours primarily...

As our vast world shrinks into a progressively diverse global village we are, more often than not, called on to lead, work and teach in situations where there is more than one culture at play. Acquiring the knowledge and skills to manoeuvre effectively in multicultural environments is increasingly important. This...

The C-suite are chiefs of their domains, responsible for leading a business and its respective departments and, as such, are the most powerful figures in the company.  With them lies the responsibility of setting vision, strategy, making decisions and managing risks. But then the global financial crisis happened and things changed,...

The modern high performing leader is one who understands the power of a work tribe as a vehicle to create great change and with velocity. As a corporate leader, are you a locust or a goose?  Hint: you want to be a goose! When they travel to find new food...

Being a CEO is often described as exhilarating, rewarding, difficult, stressful, and challenging.  Lonely isn’t usually on that list, but let’s face it, it might as well be. Loneliness is a real feeling, and it goes with job, affecting most leaders sooner or later. In fact, Harvard Business Review’s first...

Cryptocurrency folklore has a famous story that dates back to 2008, about a cryptocurrency developer who was hungry for success – and pizza apparently. The story goes that on May 22 of that year, when virtually no one knew what a virtual Bitcoin (BTC) was, software programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered...