What it Takes to Become a Technology C-Suite Executive
By Martin Mackay
The path to becoming a C-Suite executive is often challenging, filled with both remarkable achievements and formidable obstacles. It's a journey that...
What Challenges Does 2024 Have in Store for Securing Cyber-physical Systems?
Interview with Grant Geyer, Chief Product Officer at Claroty
Criminal groups are increasingly targeting operational technology (OT), the systems that control and monitor physical hardware and...
The Odds of Successful Entrepreneurship: How to Overcome the Holy Grail Syndrome
By Tijs Besieux
In this article, Tijs Besieux discusses the four steps to overcoming the Holy Grail Syndrome, which could hinder an entrepreneur’s road...
Sustainability is A Mindset, A Never Ending Journey
Interview with Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC Schaffhausen, chairwoman of the company’s Sustainability Committee
Franziska Gsell has been the Chief Marketing Officer of...
Disruption Strikes, You’re in Charge, Now What: When Companies Tackle Great Challenges
By Luis Ballesteros, Michael Useem, and Tyler Wry
Summary
Natural disasters have been growing in their social impact in recent years, but humanitarian assistance has...
“I Don’t Want Us to Lose the Momentum We Have”: A Talk with Julie...
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review
Recently we had the privilege to sit down with Julie Teigland, EY’s Managing Partner...
3 Key Leadership Habits Every Leader Must Have
By Brad Lomenick
Leadership is more than hard work; it is habitual work. And the path to becoming a better leader begins with building better...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: How to Get Creativity and Innovation into the Boardroom
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Many Directors have positive intentions to leverage the experiences gained...
How and When to Seek an Auditor?
Tax audits are a business’ and employer’s worst nightmare. While these investigations are not that common and are surely unusual, it’s best to prepare...
Why Are Prepaid Cards Ideal for A Business?
Each company has a goal to grow and stay profitable. They have to decrease their overhead cost while managing expenses to accomplish this objective....
Looking at the Universe as a Systemic Whole: Women in Global Leadership
Interview with Magdalena Mook
CEO, International Coach Federation
The International Coach Federation (ICF) is a rapidly growing organisation, encompassing 26,000 professional coaches globally. The European Business...
Business When Your Country Is At War: Interview with Oleksii Tsymbal, Chief Innovation Officer...
With the appalling news of war and destruction that is coming out of Ukraine, it is hard to believe that Ukrainian companies could continue...
Reinventing Management
By Julian Birkinshaw
What is the future of management? Can management be reinvented to make it more effective as an agent of economic progress and...
What to Remember When Learning More About Your Family’s Past
Everyone desires to have a close-knit, happy, and peaceful home. Indeed, knowing your family's lineage is an aspiration of many. The objective lies in...
Laying the Foundation
By Damian Goldvarg
While organisations may be becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of a strong coaching culture, translating this into practice is a very...
Charlene Li: Driving Digital Transformation with Resilient Leaders
The growth in the global digital transformation has never been greater. Even before the COVID-19 crisis erupted, many organisations were struggling to keep pace...
Colette Ballou, Founder, Ballou PR
If you have a strong reputation, you have a better chance of charging a premium for your products, even in price-sensitive times; you have...
The Need To Rethink Risk Governance
By Pedro B. Agua
The approach to corporate risks is a growing concern within corporate governance. Excessive attention to compliance and too much focus on...
An Investor’s Least Favourite Statement – “Oops, Wrong CEO”
By Leslie Pratch
It is possible to identify executives who are likely to act with consistently high integrity and who demonstrate sound, timely judgment when...
Technology is Molding the Future of Education
Technology has always been a broad term. However, it does not take much to establish what the term captures. As a matter of fact,...
Famous Quotes from Queen Elizabeth II
Summary:
Over the nearly 70 years that she ruled Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth shared many words of wisdom.
Introduction:
The British monarch was quite the wordsmith. Her...
Cybersecurity: Using AI to Really Think It Through – Interview with Mike Britton, CISO...
As AI becomes commonplace in professional settings, companies must ensure that the fast-moving tech works in tandem with their digital transformation goals. In this...
How to Get Your Functions to Supercharge Your Strategy
By Jo Whitehead, Anita Hunt and Debbie Rogerson
Great strategies often go to waste because they cannot be properly executed. In this article, the authors...
Sabine Eckhardt, Chief Commercial Officer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group
All that procrastination and weighing up doesn’t get you very far in a male-dominated business world. 'Just get on with it' is sometimes the...
Arrogance, Hubris, and Narcissism: The Overconfident Leader
By Adrian Furnham
There is Freudian psychological and psychiatric business literature on narcissism. We are now used to discussing our politicians as well as business...
Where does adaptability fit in for businesses during Covid-19?
By Paul Williamson
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unforeseen effect on industries across Europe, pushing many businesses back to the starting line after being...
Woman in Consulting: Q+A with Claire Arnold
Claire Arnold is a founding partner of Maxxim Consulting. In this interview, she told us about her management philosophy, visions as well as her...
Switching Off the Always-On Culture
By Avi Liran and Marianna Pascal
In mid-November 2021, Portugal made it illegal for bosses to contact employees after work. Legislators wanted to protect employees from...
Cybersecurity Made Simple: Taming the Password
Interview with Michael Crandell, CEO of Bitwarden
In the old days, all we had to memorise was a birthday or two. Now, the internet and...
What Did 2023 Teach Us About Leadership? An Answer in the Form of Three...
By Martin Gutmann
After his takeover of Twitter in October of 2022, Elon Musk admonished his staff to be “extremely hardcore.” Many heeded the call,...
What is Accounting Fraud? A Guide for Safe Accounting & Compliance
Overview
The world of business is not foreign to accounting scandals and fraud. From entrepreneurs to employees, from managers to maids, it is not uncommon...
Q&A: How Can Executive Education Address the Unique Challenges of Senior Women Executives?
By Pamela Martinez
Organisations must intentionally invest in developing, retaining, and supporting talented women leaders.
Introduction
Even in top positions, women face challenges within institutional structures, systems...
Coaching and Leadership Development
By Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
This research paper imparts coaching education to executives to enhance their leadership skills and abilities. It justifies why successful leaders...
RBT Review – Give Forex Trading a Try with RBT
The overwhelming and confusing array of brokerage firm choices may discourage you from beginning your forex trading journey. However, making the appropriate broker choice...
What Do Bosses Do Today? Rethinking this still-essential role for a new world
By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback
Being a great boss has always been hard. The challenge for organizations today is that it’s getting both...
What are the Essential Business Skills and How to Improve Them?
Starting your career in a business organisation or opening your own business requires much more than hard work, patience, and expertise in your field....
Does Gender Parity in the Workplace Make Business Sense?
By Anthon Garcia
Closing the gender gap is more than just a matter of fairness. In the business world, pushing for gender parity expands the...
Empowering Tech Industry through Female Leadership: SOFTSWISS’s Strategy
Encouraging women in leadership roles has been a major talking point for some time. It's not just about equality, it's about recognizing the skills...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Power of Trust – How Can Boards Build...
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Trust is the most potent force underlying the success of...
Corporate Governance In Startups Balancing Innovation and Sustainability
By Javier Cabetas, Iván Fernández-Muñoz, Pedro Cesar Martinez-Moran, and Fernando Diez
In an increasingly complex and globalised business world, corporate governance can guide companies to...
Creating Lasting Change Through Disability Inclusion: Interview with Caroline Casey of The Valuable 500
In this exclusive interview with Caroline Casey, founder of The Valuable 500, we explore her journey to champion disability inclusion within global businesses. From...
The Power of One: Leadership and Corporate Sustainability
By Judith L. Walls
What kind of leader does it take to make a positive change? What traits set these leaders apart? In this article,...
Why Should Managers Be Socially Responsible?
By Antonio Argandoña
Why should managers put Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into practice? The so-called legal, ethical, social and business cases provide several reasons. In...
Stephanie Holland, Founder and Author, Sheconomy
Support and encourage other women. Because there have been so few spaces for women at the table, this has pitted women against each other...
ChangeNOW: Where Sustainability Solutions are Found – and Accelerated
Interview with Santiago Lefebvre, Founder and CEO of ChangeNOW
If change for sustainability is to be made a reality, there needs to be a place...
Sense-making and Sense-giving: The Case of Dual Transformation
By Yazeed Alhezzani
It is well known that everything in life changes and the only constant thing is change per se. So, in order for...
A Compass for Chief Executive Officers and Chief Learning Officers
By Mihnea Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Based on a 5 year study of the executive development industry, comprising interviews with over 200 executives, CLO’s, CEO’s,...
Effective Leadership: 9 Ways to Support Your Team
Behind every great business are a great team of leaders, who endeavor every working day to motivate, encourage, and support their talented employees.
If your...
The Better Boards Podcast Series: The Boardroom Awakening – Can Corporate Governance Survive the...
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The ESG narrative has become familiar but does not yet...
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“Reverse Backstabbing”- The Art of Praising People Behind Their Backs
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Gossip can be hurtful and malicious, leaving behind a bad smell. And while we may not always avoid it, we can choose the type of gossip to engage in. Enter, reverse backstabbing,...
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