While your top-performing employees may be your greatest asset, focusing on them exclusively will cause your success to stagnate. To go beyond, consider giving your mid-performers the same attention.
In his book The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Iger outlines qualities ranging from optimism and decisiveness to integrity as core to his leadership style. This approach has been reflected in the evolution of the business. Under his tenure, Disney has become the media […]
The COVID-19 pandemic will test the operational resiliency of every company. Before it does, check your assets and conduct your own research to make sure you pass.
Doris Fisher $2.2 billion Age: 90 Gap was founded by Doris and Donald Fisher in 1969 after the couple struggled to find jeans that fit Don. They successfully raised $63,000 and opened their first store in San Francisco – selling jeans and music. And the rest is history, as they say. Up until 2003, Doris […]
Whether it’s growing a team, raising investment or navigating competitive markets, CEOs and business leaders require a great amount of skill and experience. But that’s where books come in handy, allowing you to learn from the mistakes and successes of others. With reader behaviour data from the Perlego platform, Matthew Jones has created a list […]
Why is this? Part of the problem is the lack of female angel investors and venture capitalists in the market. I have pitched to some incredibly inspiring women, but they probably amount to about 2% of all pitches, with almost all being men. Women are also turning to more alternative sources of finance, crowdfunding being […]
As Will Durant wrote, excellence is not an act, but a habit. Outlined here are eleven habits that will help any CEO to elevate themselves above the rest.
You worked with a number of different investment banks before joining AST—how does that experience impact upon your role at AST and what are some of the distinctions between AST’s organisation and some of those banks’ technology culture? Technology at those firms and at AST is not only essential to our business but is a […]
What was the idea about 123 Form Builder born out of? Back in the mid-2000s, big data was not much more than a wildly used buzzword. Nonetheless, we were fascinated with the prospect of creating an online platform that would at least help pave the way to the data-driven business landscape we had all been […]
We spoke with Marloes, who recently received CEO Today’s Business Woman of the Year Award, about her pioneering approach in hospitality and her ambitions for the company. You’ve been the CEO of Kerten Hospitality for five years, and the company has come a long way since your appointment. How does your approach to hospitality set […]
It is recommended for organisations to embrace culture and diversity in its management to enhance effectiveness in managing their activities. Organisations that embrace diversity can better table a variety of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences that will represent each of their target clients which is vital to the company’s success. One of the common strategies used […]
When the time comes for your business to become multinational, you will have a lot of decisions to make – including where to set up your first international branch. While circumstances will dictate your needs, these four locations have proved popular with many companies as a first point of expansion.
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