Leadership

How To Employ The Right Consultancy For Your Business

January 20, 2022

Joe O'Mahoney, Professor of Consulting at Cardiff University, explains how to employ the right consultancy for your business. Oddly, whilst the top ten consultancies have grown seven-fold since 1990, it seems that not a week goes by without a major failed project or scandal hitting the business headlines. The two are not unrelated. Resisting pressure […]

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Empowering Women In Business: An Interview With Virgin’s Danni Rush

January 19, 2022

CEO Today speaks to Danni Rush, Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Experience Days and Virgin Incentives, about the obstacles women in business face, female mentorship, and what businesses can do to support women in leadership roles. What would you say are the biggest obstacles preventing women from reaching higher positions in business? Firstly, being really […]

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Employees: Empowered, Impatient & Advocates Of Social Justice

January 17, 2022

Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, unsustainable inequality, growing dividedness and divisiveness, and lack of a consensus about what is true, “business as usual” is no longer an option. We are starting to see a global awakening: we need new systems in every sector and more employees are now speaking out, taking a stance […]

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Why CEOs Must Prioritise Health and Lead By Example

January 14, 2022

Annie Button, professional content writer and branding aficionado, discusses the importance of business leaders prioritising health. The last few years have clearly demonstrated that anything can happen. Businesses who are able to adapt to challenging and changing circumstances not only stand a much better chance of weathering the storm, they are also best placed to […]

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Where Can CEOs And Boards Play A Bigger Role In M&A Deals?

January 13, 2022

Karen Thomas-Bland, founder of business transformation consultancy Seven, takes a look at where CEOs and boards can play a bigger role in M&A deals. Global mergers and acquisitions (M&As) hit a record high of more than $5 trillion last year, according to new data released by Reuters, as companies prioritised inorganic growth opportunities in response […]

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How To Keep Employees Challenged

January 12, 2022

The trick for employees is to find the right balance between challenges and skills – and this is hugely important in teams. Are you challenging your teams to stretch themselves or is their work too boring? This becomes part of the process of managing people's growth. Sometimes when corporates go through a bad patch, I […]

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Can We Do Everything Needed To Continue To Grow In 2022?

January 11, 2022

There were many challenges in 2021 - the obvious two being Covid-19 uncertainty and Brexit. Even though these have, and continue to be challenging, at Sherpa we were able to re-evaluate the kind of business we want to be. It was important to take note of the many exciting new initiatives coming into play that […]

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Predictions For The Business Community In 2022

January 7, 2022

Consequently, any business-related predictions for the coming year can’t fail to take the pandemic into account. Omicron and any further variants that follow demonstrate how fluid the pandemic is. Of course, while the pandemic is a global issue, UK businesses will also continue to face the ongoing disruptions we’ve come to expect as each new […]

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Reboot Yourself In 2022: How To Get There In The Next 12 Months

January 6, 2022

As the New Year begins in the CEO chair, you would normally be feeling the need to attack this year with a fresh impetus – a renewed energy for achievement from your team and excellence in how you serve your customers. Great if you are, but it is also totally okay if you are not. […]

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Greggs Name Roisin Currie As New CEO

January 6, 2022

Whiteside has given notice of his intention to retire and is set to step down from the board at the close of the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in May 2022. However, he will remain on hand to support the transition process until his notice expires in early January 2023. In the interim period, Currie […]

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Former Dyson CEO Jim Rowan To Succeed Håkan Samuelsson At Volvo

January 6, 2022

Samuelsson has been president and CEO of Volvo since October 2012 and previously served on the company board for two years. Prior to his time at Volvo, Samuelsson served as chairman and CEO of the now-defunct vehicle manufacturer MAN SE. “I’m pleased to welcome Jim to his new role to continue the great journey Volvo […]

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6 Ways To Build Trust In A Hybrid Team

January 5, 2022

The virtual team bandwagon has been well and truly gathering speed prior to COVID-19. Even before the pandemic sent us all back home to work, 85% of us have at some time worked in a virtual team and almost 20% of us spent our working day interacting with other virtual teams. Building trust is harder […]

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