Features - CEO Today

Never Underestimate the Importance of EQ

October 31, 2018

Leadership, especially in an incredibly fast-paced digital world where there are disruptions coming from every direction, is tough. Whether you are a long-established CEO or COO grappling with the changes digital technology is bringing to your industry, or a newly appointed Chief Data or Digital Officer getting to grips with joining the C-Suite, it takes […]

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Mind the Gap: CEO vs Worker Pay

October 31, 2018

By Louisa Rochford Disclosing and justifying the pay gap between a CEO and their employees within a company is becoming more enforced. Amazon workers in the US and the UK received a pay rise, to $15 and £9.50 respectively, a change considered to be a long time coming for many. The world is changing, […]

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Using Technology to Have Smarter Board Meetings

October 31, 2018

Meetings are amongst the most frustrating elements of modern business. They can take too long, are often unfocused, and do not always achieve what they set out to. This is mostly because the entire meeting process has hardly changed in decades and is lacking in the digitisation that has transformed other areas of business. Camilla […]

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Samsung: To Succeed You Often Have To Fail First

October 31, 2018

Why creativity is iterative and not an end-game. #fail. It’s become a tag that no one wants to be associated with. In this social media-fuelled world we now live in, #winning tends to be what we all want to be striving for. And rightly so… otherwise, what’s the point in developing ourselves to be […]

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Reasons Why Your Employees Might Consider Quitting

October 31, 2018

No-one wants to be unhappy at work, and no employer wants an unmotivated workforce. Considering how much of our time is spent at work, it’s important that employees feel happy and engaged with their jobs, colleagues and managers. However, it’s inevitable that at some point, business leaders will have to deal with an employee handing […]

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The Biggest Invisible Business Problem of Our Time

October 31, 2018

Nothing is as invisible as the obvious, but chances are, you’re not paying close enough attention to notice. Take your workforce for example. On average, almost half of the workforce spend is on non-payroll workers and service providers. It is assumed that human resources, procurement and department managers have a handle on how this ‘external […]

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Investing in an Age of ‘Infobesity’: Separating Sentiment from Market Noise

October 31, 2018

Even in the pre-digital age, financial news travelled fast. Humans’ hard-wired love of both gossip and profit have long combined to make stock tips, trading floor rumours and market hunches a potent force. Potent not just because of the speed at which they travel, but because of their ability to not just reflect the market, […]

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How to Cultivate and Protect Company Culture

October 31, 2018

The success of a business (and subsequently, its CEO) tends to be judged on the basis of hard facts and numbers such as revenue, investment, product development, and innovation. These are certainly critical metrics – but if achieving success were really that simple, every business with the right assets on paper would experience exponential growth. […]

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How to Maintain the Best Work/Life Balance

October 31, 2018

Maintaining a work/life balance is a challenge for the vast majority of committed workers, but for CEOs, the problem is much more pronounced. It’s driven by numerous factors: a huge workload, a belief that they need to set an example and an inability to relinquish control. This all culminates in them ultimately never being able […]

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Will There Be Another Apple?

September 28, 2018

By Louisa Rochford Apple Inc. reached a valuation of one trillion dollars in August of this year, the first of this phenomenon in history. At the time, the company was in tight competition with Amazon, both vying for this historic milestone—and it’s clear who won the race. However, while only briefly, Amazon reached trillion-dollar […]

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Don’t Fall in Love with your Robot

September 28, 2018

When building a new product or business, it’s all too easy to feel like it’s your baby. Blinded by the love for their carefully crafted creation, entrepreneurs often become too involved in the creative process and lose sight of the end goal – serving their customers. For your creation to be a success, you need […]

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The Importance of Multi-tasking as a CEO

September 28, 2018

Starting his career at 16 as a nightclub doorman, Andy Scott now heads Rel Capital, a private investment company for businesses, which turned over £25 million in 2017 and is set to double this year. Scott became a millionaire at 26 by selling houses and after losing everything, he reinvented his business. Apart from sailing across […]

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