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Leadership Lessons Learned from Churchill

October 31, 2022

Business leaders today can learn a lot from Winston Churchill and after a few turbulent years with the global pandemic and a looming recession we need to take heed from Churchill's qualities and lessons.

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Why CFOs Should Keep it Green

October 31, 2022

Fast forward to 2022 and sustainability is now a major corporate decision-making driver, fuelling growth through investments, innovation and acquisitions. International governments are responding to the urgency of our climate challenge, seen through global collaboration, including setting out climate action targets in the Paris Agreement. What was previously deemed a ‘nice to have’ in the […]

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Sir Bob Reid & His Thoughts on Leadership & the Global Economy

October 31, 2022

One of Britain’s most respected international business leaders, Sir Bob Reid has a history of steering disparate large organisations through challenging times by drawing on universal principles about people, power, and profit that he had absorbed in his youth and expatriate years.

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How to Move from Imposter Syndrome to Authenticity

October 31, 2022

As a talent management specialist, a head-hunter for international organisations, and an executive coach, I come across countless exceptionally senior and highly skilled, accomplished people who suffer with imposter syndrome or the fear they’ll be “found out.” People who doubt their abilities to the point they sometimes feel they don’t deserve to have the senior […]

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5 Leadership Lessons from Queen Elizabeth II

September 9, 2022

Duty first It's difficult to think of another leader in modern history who embodies the ‘duty first’ mindset more than the Queen did during her 70 years of reign. Since becoming a queen after her father’s death at the delicate age of 25, she’s always seen her role as a monarch as her life’s main […]

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Sundar Pichai & the Road to Becoming the CEO of Google

September 2, 2022

Sundar Pichai has firmly held the number-one position on CEO Today’s Top 50 CEOs list for over two years. To celebrate his brilliance and achievements as the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world, we tell you his truly inspiring story below.

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How CEOs Can Banish Their 'Imposter Monsters'

August 31, 2022

Jenny Devonshire, Founder of Pause2Perform, the corporate wellness solution focusing on improving performance, tells The CEO Today that, “Imposter syndrome can be defined as ‘a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident successes. Imposters suffer from chronic self-doubt and fraudulence, that override any feelings of success or external proof of their competence,’ and it may surprise you to know that while 7 out of 10 people will suffer from Imposter Syndrome at some point in their life, 8 out of 10 are at CEO level.”

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Thinking Space: Space Must be on the Agenda of Every Future Board Meeting

August 1, 2022

There are just under 5,000 working satellites orbiting earth. By the end of 2029, conservative estimations are suggesting no less than 107,000 satellites will be orbiting earth as we enter the 2030s. At the same time, hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are building the Ground-Station infrastructure, designed to capture, store and […]

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Together for Tomorrow

July 29, 2022

W. Kenny Massey is the President and CEO of Modern Woodmen of America - a nearly 140-year-old, member-owned, fraternal financial services organisation based in Rock Island, Illinois. Modern Woodmen serves nearly 730,000 members throughout the United States.

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What’s the Future of Crypto & NFTs?

July 29, 2022

Viktor Uzunov is a 30-year-old Bulgarian-born blockchain entrepreneur and marketing specialist. He moved to London in 2011 to pursue a career in finance and after trying university and studying for a degree in International Relations at the University of Greenwich, he dropped out after his second year to gain some practical experience and start an entry-level marketing position in a small London company. After a year there, Viktor managed to talk his way into a Marketing and Client Entertainment role at Jefferies LLC without having an inkling of what exactly he was supposed to be doing. Fast forward a few years and he managed to climb all the way to becoming Strategy Marketing and Client Entertainment Manager for EMEA/AP and a master of the craft.

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How to Avoid the Sale of a Company or a Merger Leaving a ‘Twitter Taste’

July 29, 2022

Twitter’s plans to sue Elon Musk proved another twist in a fractious deal. It’s been an acrimonious acquisition process and the entrepreneur’s intentions to countersue the social media company suggest there are more difficulties to come before a resolution is finally reached.

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Flexibility, Not Four Days: Why Autonomy is the Key to a Productive Workforce

July 29, 2022

As of July, thousands of UK employees have enjoyed a three-day weekend, every week for at least six months, with zero loss of pay. To most of us, it sounds like a dream scenario—after all, a bank holiday is often the highlight of a working month. But what effect would regular extended weekends have on business profits? And can workers really be as productive in four days as they were in five?

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