Leadership

Andy Bond To Step Down As CEO Of Pepco Group

January 5, 2022

Bond is set to step down at the end of March after ten years with the European retailer, which owns discount stores under the Pepco, Poundland, and Dealz brands across the continent. Bond, who is also a former chief of supermarket chain Asda, will remain an adviser to the board until the end of the […]

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Lateral Thinking in Mechanical Engineering

January 4, 2022

Digitalisation as far as the eye can reach. Everything has to be smart. This also applies to the industry sector. In addition to speed, flexibility is becoming more and more important. Increasingly intelligent components, seamless communication and networking are just a few of the requirements. “That alone won’t cut it,” says Horst Gusterhuber, CEO of […]

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Bringing Coaching, Neuroscience & Emotional Intelligence Together

January 4, 2022

In 2012 you crystallised the concept called Neurolanguage coaching for language learning, how did you reach that point? Over the last 20 years, it has become really clear that languages in business are essential. Businesses have increasingly broken out beyond borders into the globalised market and even the smallest of provincial companies now understand the […]

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How to Turn Transition into an Opportunity

January 4, 2022

As we learn to improve, we encourage compassion with leaders and their teams as they discover new ways of relating to each other. SPCC has developed a coaching program for teams because the new normal will require even greater collaboration to successfully navigate the new ways of doing and being in business. The “Re-Writing the […]

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Co-Founder Conflict: Productive or Destructive?

January 4, 2022

My work with co-founder teams always addresses conflict, which can be productive or destructive. In healthy, high-performing teams, conflict is welcome and productive. And when it’s destructive, it can threaten the stability and future of the company. Conflict is often driven by beliefs or experiences related to an aspect of a co-founder’s life that may […]

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COP26: A Call to Arms for Business Leaders

January 4, 2022

And so, naturally, newspaper coverage tends to focus on headline-grabbing stories – Insulate Rebellion’s latest superglue stunt, Greta Thunberg’s football chant or the hypocrisy of private jet-hopping premiers. But the untold story is not the stunts during the 14-day fandango, but how we take the serious work that went on behind the scenes and turn […]

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What are the New Year’s Resolutions the Chairman of the Board Should be Making for 2022?

January 4, 2022

As we enter 2022, chairmen need to contemplate how they and their board can continue to be successful and add value in a world that may continue to be uncertain and unpredictable. While it’s important to be optimistic about the future, pragmatism is required due to the continuing fallout from the COVID crisis. Ensure role […]

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Getting Comfortable With Intimacy In 2022

December 24, 2021

Fiona Logan, Chief Executive of Insights, explores how leaders can help their businesses maintain the valuable intimacy generated over the past couple of years as businesses look ahead to 2022. Go back two years and intimacy wasn’t something associated with the world of work. Instead, it might have been used to describe a close relationship […]

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A CEO Perspective: Learning To Live With Disruption

December 23, 2021

The fallout from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic, including rising costs and supply shortages, is continuing to affect organisations across all areas of the business landscape. As a result, decision-makers must find ways to live with disruption for the foreseeable future by rapidly adapting their business models, while keeping costs under control. A constant challenge […]

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Elon Musk’s Most Influential Tweets Of 2021

December 22, 2021

Love him or loathe him, there is no denying that Elon Musk is one of the world’s most influential people. 2021 saw the Tesla CEO crowned Time magazine’s “Person of the Year'' as his electric vehicle company became the most valuable in the world, his space company successfully carried an all-civilian crew to the edge […]

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Great Tech Is Crucial For Engaging People Around A Physical Workspace

December 22, 2021

The evolution of remote working has been a topic of conversation throughout the current century, but it is only in the past two years that it has entered the mainstream. While the impact of remote working on businesses and their workforces has been covered extensively during the pandemic, there remains one point that is worth reiterating: […]

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Covid-19: Changing The Air We Breathe At Work

December 22, 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic has made many of us better understand the harsh realities of pathogens in the air we breathe and how, without the proper ventilation, we could be exposed to various cases of flu and colds. As a result of this concern, businesses are having to update their health and safety policies and […]

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