Opinion - CEO Today

How To Keep Team Morale High During The Summer Months

May 16, 2022

Danni Rush, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Incentives and Virgin Experience Days and Virgin Experience Gifts, explains how leaders can keep their team’s morale up throughout the summer. As the days get longer, the mornings get lighter and the evenings warmer, it’s now safe to say summer is on the horizon. The last two summers […]

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8 Common Start-Up Mistakes That Put Off Investors

May 13, 2022

There is a lot of money in the investment market looking for good businesses to invest in. There are also a lot of young businesses looking for investment funds. The investment market strategy has been to encourage young start-up businesses to look for investment as the way to launch and build their offerings, putting aside […]

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Here’s Why Your ERG Will Fail

May 13, 2022

In 2003, Ford reported making $290 million in sales through referrals from their Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). They encouraged members of their ERGs to promote the company's "Friends and Neighbours" discount programme. In 2020, the Alexa team at Amazon UK launched a quiz for their customers that got more user engagement than any other quiz […]

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How Can CEOs And Board Members Manage Dark Triad Personality Traits?

May 12, 2022

“We need someone charismatic to lead and inspire us through the next 3 years, times are going to be tough, and we need to bring people with us." We hear this in many boardrooms when the CEO succession conversation takes place. But the traits so eloquently described in the CEO job description; charismatic, charming, focused, […]

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Beyond The Data: The Need For Emotional Connection In Business

May 12, 2022

We are in an era where many organisations have an abundance of data. What used to be a luxury due to the significant costs involved, thanks to technology, is now readily available in swathes.

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Does Your Business Make Goods, Or Is It A Force For Good?

May 9, 2022

“Wow, you sure sound like you’re anti-business….” That was what an audience member said to me after I gave a recent talk. I found the remark curious, considering I spoke about the important role businesses must play in solving today’s crises, some existential. I’ve been in business my entire career, from startups to Fortune 500; […]

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Less Talk, More Action: Shaping SME’s Future Business Strategies

May 9, 2022

I call it "strategy-as-you-go", and it's not a catchy buzzword: it's a tangible, strategic readiness to respond and adapt to a changing environment. Strategy-As-You-Go And Business Of Resilience Despite unprecedented challenges over the past two years, SMEs in the UK have shown remarkable resilience. They have not only survived the pandemic and the difficulties in its wake but […]

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How Do You Motivate Employees When You Can’t Afford To Pay More?

May 6, 2022

If you are concerned about motivating your people in an era of rising costs and falling demand, you are not alone. The challenge of how much to pay the workforce ultimately lands on the CEO’s desk – so it’s you who must fret about the impact on motivation when there isn’t much cash about. What […]

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Inclusive Office Design Is Key To The Future Office

May 4, 2022

Lucy Minton, COO and co-founder of Kitt, discusses the changing design priorities of business leaders as workers return to the office. Office occupancy has reached its highest since the pandemic began. As the return continues to intensify, business leaders are increasingly reevaluating their priorities to ensure they’re able to attend to their worker’s newfound needs. […]

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Business Continuity Planning For The New Normal

May 4, 2022

The sudden and rapid onset of COVID-19 severely tested organisations’ business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. With no time for downtime, businesses had to show their real-time ability to implement these strategies in a prompt and successful manner, while also putting the very adequacy of these plans under more scrutiny than ever before. It is […]

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Short-Termism Is Rife Within Businesses: Here’s How To Deal With It

May 4, 2022

Many of the greatest challenges facing business leaders involve the here and now. Think reckoning with staffing and supply chain issues. Establishing team autonomy and respect for individuals and their circumstances. Ensuring growth targets and company ambitions are agile and reflect the uncertainty that exists within the economy. Or finally, the urgency of implementing tangible […]

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5 Lessons in Business Strategy for the Age of Perpetual Crisis

May 3, 2022

There’s growing pressure to: pursue a more sustainable path find new partners to help overcome supply chain disruptions ease economic anxiety stemming from rising inflation demonstrate social justice through better DEI policies and practices adapt to rapidly changing customer preferences favouring brands that act responsibly As leaders CEOs must make sense of the world, using […]

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