Success and Leadership

Mukesh Ambani has once again emerged as the wealthiest person in Asia overtaking China's Zhong Shanshan. Shanshan's net worth stands at $66.0 billion, while Mukesh Ambani is worth $80.4 billion, as of March 23, 2021. For the past 2 years, Mukesh Ambani held the numero uno position in the ranking...

The richest 1% of Americans saw their net worth rise by $4 trillion in 2020 (or captured about 35.2% of the extra wealth generated nationwide), according to the latest data available from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The poorest half of the population, by contrast, got about 4% of overall gains...

We all have a preferred leadership style, I know I do and at the start of my leadership go to, it wasn’t just my preferred style, but it was pretty much my only style. I was an all action lead from the front, set the tone show the way leader,...

The internet is full of all kinds of information, but sometimes it is difficult to find exactly what you are looking for. Especially businessmen can have trouble finding valuable things regarding operating businesses in other countries, laws, provisions, taxes, banking options, and so on. Many businessmen are very motivated and...

Five years ago, asking the average CEO whether they wanted -- or needed -- personal branding services would have earned you a raised eyebrow and a polite but emphatic no. When I first started my career as a branding consultant, the vast majority of my clients were ambitious entrepreneurs or...

For many business owners, 2020 was a challenge. We were faced with so many new regulations, and we had to make hard choices when it came to our business and our bottom line. As we start moving toward a new “normal” in the coming months we want to be careful...

Scan any company’s balance sheet, and you won’t see any column with the heading of “Trust.” It’s not something we typically think of as having an economic value. But scratch the surface of all those numbers, take a hard look at what is reflected in the data, and you find...

What is the flow state? First of all let's talk about what the so-called ''flow state'' refers to. In positive psychology, a flow state, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of...

‘Can We Talk?’    Let’s pause and reflect on the thoughts that those three words just triggered. Maybe it’s the anxiety you feel when you have to relay bad news, challenge a polarizing perspective or even deal with letting someone go. Uncomfortable? Yes. Yet, if the difficult conversation actually happens, consider...

For many organizations, CEO and executive succession planning got knocked off its heels in 2020. Along with all the other crises and disruptions of the pandemic, business succession plans got interrupted, and delayed. As the pandemic hopefully ends in 2021, and the economy continues to recover, company boards and management...