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Elon Musk: At the Crossroads Between Success and Failure
What are a CEO’s words worth? In the case of Elon Musk’s tweet on August 7th, 2018 they’re worth about $4.4 million each. Elon Musk jolted financial markets by tweeting, “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.”
8 Tried-and-Tested Ways to Make Your Meetings a Success
When you’ve got a million and one things to do, it’s often easier to throw a meeting in the diary and assume your problem will be fixed. But without proper planning, that doesn’t happen, and you just end up more frustrated.
Hiring A CEO: How Does It Work?
Hiring a CEO is a big task. Finding the perfect candidate to lead a business takes a lot of work and requires a thorough and robust recruitment process in order to get it right. Whilst many organisations work with recruitment agencies to…
Social Impact Needs To Be a Company-wide Initiative
While most corporates and businesses have implemented a social impact strategy, many are typically incongruent with the company’s profitability and growth objectives and are often rendered obsolete. Effective social impact strategies need…
Silicon Valley’s Magnificent Four: Behind the Network
We have heard these things many times: “it is all about the network” and “who you know matters more than what you know.” In today’s professional world, networking is the most important skill. People who can develop, scale, maintain and…
The University of London: Global Home of Contemporary Learning
The University of London stands out as unique due to its unparalleled commitment to innovation and widening access, and it continues to develop and build on its 160-year track-record of providing quality, up-to-date academic programmes for…
Keeping the Best Young Talent Means Understanding Gen-Z Motivations
2018 was an auspicious year, the first when those born at the turn of the century reached adulthood. Generation Z, those in their late teens to mid-twenties, has grown up in a truly connected society and that’s had a profound impact on…
Days Gone By: Executive Highlights from 2018
With 2018 behind us, it feels like so long ago that some of the year’s biggest stories have gone by and faded into obscurity—though some have had such a piercing impact that we still feel the rippling effect to this day. As we begin the new…
Design Means Business
Today, competition can seemingly come from any geography or sector, and customer loyalty can dissolve in a click. Given this rapidly changing landscape, smart corporate leaders are increasingly looking to design as a crucial source of…
Why Success or Failure of Digital Transformation Starts in the C-suite
Most business leaders I speak to are investing heavily in digital transformation. In today’s world, it’s a given – no-one wants to get left behind. But it’s a complex task and organisations often struggle with it. According to a recent…