CEO Perspectives

Leadership constantly requires us to pull from our strengths, values, and expertise, and contextualize them at the moment. It is an adaptive ability and leadership approach I call Ferocious Warmth. It is doing a constant dance between ferocity and warmth, high support and high challenge, head, and heart. Ferocious Warmth...

Is there a connection between profit and the executive leadership behavior in your company? Is there an unused potential to increase productivity in your company? Research from positive psychology has shown a connection between productivity, profit and work engagement in companies. There are even some investors that are using the...

Onboarding new employees efficiently is arguably one of the most crucial stages of looking after any business’ key assets – the workforce.  Every HR professional knows that in order to keep their personnel happy and successful in their jobs, one of the most important things to get right from day...

Fear of failure can be a great motivator. I am inherently a risk-taker. However, I’m a risk-taker who does his research, whether it’s about launching a business or jumping out of a plane. Maintaining a positive mindset allows me to be driven by fear rather than paralyzed by it. I've...

The greatest responsibility that modern CEOs carry is mitigating cyber risks in their organizations. The issue of cybersecurity is so prevalent, so widespread, and so impactful that a single IT manager or cybersecurity specialist cannot reasonably be expected to manage risk on their own—mitigating cyber threats is a C-suite responsibility....

Business leaders are today facing pressure from all angles, from hybrid workforces, ongoing disruptions due to resignations, the impact of ‘quiet quitting’, the inability to recruit talent as skills shortages grow, to cost pressures as the globe is crippled by inflation as fears of a global recession grows.  Given this...

Keeping in touch with your learners is a great way to keep them progressing and completing your courses. You really want to get your students to complete your entire course – when they do, they get the full results of your program, get the full transformation and impact that it offered, come...

IN my last article CEO Dos & Don’ts in a Recession (CEOWORLD magazine) only weeks ago the perennial economic prognosticators had the U.S. economy headed for tough times as soon as this fall and into 2023. Why? As the Federal Reserve Bank raises short term interest rates to stem inflation,...

You should be aware that a recruiting agency's most important aim is to help both employers as well as job searchers in finding the ideal candidate for openings. However, did you realize that working with specialised recruiters like Best Practice Biz can be very advantageous to your entire business, not just hiring...

The COVID pandemic brought with it a variety of unforeseen consequences, not the least of which was a business creation boom.  In 2021, there were 5.4 million new business applications, on top of the record 4.4 million in 2020. Many of these businesses were already in the pipeline, and were...