How CEOs Can Overcome Modern Challenges and Transform Traditional Corporate Systems
How CEOs overcome modern challenges and transform traditional corporate systems has kept many awake at night. The good news is that it doesn’t have to. Yes, CEOs do face a complex array of challenges that expose significant gaps in traditional corporate systems. These gaps are driven by economic volatility, talent loss and the rapid pace […]
How CFOs Must Shift Focus in the Age of the Employee Stakeholder
From cost-cutting to value-building, how CFOs shift their focus in the age of the Employee Stakeholder is an important key for stemming talent turnover. So, how did Jonathan achieve this? In the bustling heart of a leading tech firm, CFO Jonathan Ellis faced a pivotal challenge. The company’s relentless focus on cost-cutting had alienated its […]
Will Your Next CEO Have the Best Collaboration Skills?
Who do you think is next in line for CEO within your organization? Does he or she possess the best collaboration skills? Chances are, you placed your bet on the sales and marketing director, the general counsel, the financial VP, or the operations director. You wouldn’t even think that about your Chief Human Resources Officer […]
Use Top-Down Approach for Better Employee Engagement
Employee engagement may sound like an optional concern. A back burner issue. If leaders truly want a successful and satisfied workforce, however, then they need to start paying attention. According to Gallup research, 91 percent of employees have left their company to change positions, and 35 percent of employees have done so in the past […]
High Performance Executive Teams Secrets
What makes or breaks high performance executive teams? According to recent McKinsey research, companies with diverse executive leadership exhibit better short-and longer-term financial performance. Women in revenue-producing positions also correlate to better performance. Let’s get to the bottom line. There is a secret to high performance executive teams. It’s not because everyone is a […]
Do Tech Managers Need Group Facilitation Skills?
What skills do site reliability engineers require? Like many new digital jobs, career growth and advancement have not caught up with role assignments. The technical side of the role is easy to assess and explain. The increasingly important soft skill side, however, is leaving some engineers ill-equipped to perform their roles as team leaders. Those […]
Soft skills. Do CEO’s need them today?
In my business life-time, I have seen CEO rules change twice. The first time was when “great generation” run businesses changed from hierarchical monoliths to flatter and more employee centered organizations. Now we have a new change looming where the soft skills sets of CEO’s are again under scrutiny. A recent study of over 400 […]