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The Cult of the CEO

January 31, 2023

Using Elon Musk as a textbook, we discuss why celebrity CEOs exhibit terrible governance policies. The key to corporate success is good corporate governance. Any CEO worth their salt is a humble leader with eager, engaged, and educated critics at board level to keep decisions in check. Inversely, ego, inexperience and unwavering control are red […]

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How Meetings are Stealing Valuable Time & Tips on Making Them More Productive

January 31, 2023

Meetings are here to stay, whether we want to agree with the term or not, each year we’re spending more and more of our working day attending meetings. What’s even worse is how unproductive these meetings tend to be.

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Choppy Waters Ahead: CEOs with Visibility Across All Operations Will Sail to Success in 2023

January 31, 2023

Next-generation integrated business planning that empowers leaders and their teams by providing real-time data to improve decision-making is essential to triumph this year and beyond.

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The Ultimate Morning Zen Ritual to Follow for A Confident & Calm Start

January 31, 2023

Do you know what the old Japanese warriors and baseball players have in common? Before they go out to battle/competition, they have their own rituals. Now, if we as CEOs and decision-makers see every day of our lives as a battle, a competition, or a journey that we should feel like winning then why don’t we prepare for it with a nice ritual?

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Leadership Lessons from Rishi Sunak: How Can Leaders Restore Organisations in Turmoil?

December 20, 2022

Following former Prime Minister Liz Truss’ swift exit from 10 Downing Street, all eyes are now on new Tory leader Rishi Sunak to restore his party and lead the United Kingdom out of an economic crisis. A party described as ‘ungovernable’, a strong pointing finger from the opposition, and anger from the British public, Sunak […]

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Business Lessons from the 2022 World Cup

December 19, 2022

The business world often struggles to keep up with the pace of change. In an economic climate that is squeezing budgets and damaging morale, innovative business leaders would do well to look beyond the traditional spheres towards sport to seek out that winning edge. The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has provided many transferable lessons […]

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How to Build an Iconic Brand

November 30, 2022

In the ever-changing consumer market, where trends come and go, and market competition is becoming increasingly stiff - having an iconic brand is more than a perfectly designed logo placed above your shop entrance or featuring on your products.

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The New Year’s Resolutions the Chairman of the Board Should be Making for 2023

November 30, 2022

As we move into 2023 one thing we can be confident about is the world remaining a volatile place. It’s the ‘new normal’.

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Do Bad Leaders Create Stress? Are You One of Them?

November 30, 2022

Have you had your CEO name on the door for ages? Or do you have the ambition to be a CEO and hope to get on that track soon?

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How CEOs Can Lead Their Organisations to the Edge and Win

November 30, 2022

The emergence of edge computing offers huge advantages for virtually all businesses that no longer rely on bound ledgers and inkwells.

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Hybrid Work and the Productivity Challenge

November 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced hybrid work as the new normal. The past nearly three years have served as an experiment in testing the efficacy of working from home vs. working from the office and the findings are that in a post-COVID world, flexibility is the future. Different people feel at their most productive state in different environments and companies are increasingly realising the value of the hybrid work model. However, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t any challenges to come with it. To keep the same levels of productivity, organisations have been on the lookout for the best ways to optimise workflows in a working-from-home environment. We explore some of them below.

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6 Must-Reads for International Leadership Week

October 31, 2022

Best read for: Overcoming Adversity Leader Awakened Samreen McGregor £12.99/$17.95, Rethink Press The world we live in today presents unavoidable and at times unprecedented challenges and adversities. The hidden impact of these events can often have a damaging impact on leaders, both as individuals and on their ability to lead effectively. Samreen McGregor believes adversity […]

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