The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced hybrid work as the new normal. The past nearly three years have served as an experiment in testing the efficacy of working from home vs. working from the office and the findings are that in a post-COVID world, flexibility is the future. Different people feel at their most productive state in different environments and companies are increasingly realising the value of the hybrid work model. However, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t any challenges to come with it. To keep the same levels of productivity, organisations have been on the lookout for the best ways to optimise workflows in a working-from-home environment. We explore some of them below.
Best read for: Overcoming Adversity Leader Awakened Samreen McGregor £12.99/$17.95, Rethink Press The world we live in today presents unavoidable and at times unprecedented challenges and adversities. The hidden impact of these events can often have a damaging impact on leaders, both as individuals and on their ability to lead effectively. Samreen McGregor believes adversity […]
Business leaders today can learn a lot from Winston Churchill and after a few turbulent years with the global pandemic and a looming recession we need to take heed from Churchill's qualities and lessons.
Fast forward to 2022 and sustainability is now a major corporate decision-making driver, fuelling growth through investments, innovation and acquisitions. International governments are responding to the urgency of our climate challenge, seen through global collaboration, including setting out climate action targets in the Paris Agreement. What was previously deemed a ‘nice to have’ in the […]
One of Britain’s most respected international business leaders, Sir Bob Reid has a history of steering disparate large organisations through challenging times by drawing on universal principles about people, power, and profit that he had absorbed in his youth and expatriate years.
As a talent management specialist, a head-hunter for international organisations, and an executive coach, I come across countless exceptionally senior and highly skilled, accomplished people who suffer with imposter syndrome or the fear they’ll be “found out.” People who doubt their abilities to the point they sometimes feel they don’t deserve to have the senior […]
Duty first It's difficult to think of another leader in modern history who embodies the ‘duty first’ mindset more than the Queen did during her 70 years of reign. Since becoming a queen after her father’s death at the delicate age of 25, she’s always seen her role as a monarch as her life’s main […]
Sundar Pichai has firmly held the number-one position on CEO Today’s Top 50 CEOs list for over two years. To celebrate his brilliance and achievements as the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world, we tell you his truly inspiring story below.
Jenny Devonshire, Founder of Pause2Perform, the corporate wellness solution focusing on improving performance, tells The CEO Today that, “Imposter syndrome can be defined as ‘a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident successes. Imposters suffer from chronic self-doubt and fraudulence, that override any feelings of success or external proof of their competence,’ and it may surprise you to know that while 7 out of 10 people will suffer from Imposter Syndrome at some point in their life, 8 out of 10 are at CEO level.”
There are just under 5,000 working satellites orbiting earth. By the end of 2029, conservative estimations are suggesting no less than 107,000 satellites will be orbiting earth as we enter the 2030s. At the same time, hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are building the Ground-Station infrastructure, designed to capture, store and […]
W. Kenny Massey is the President and CEO of Modern Woodmen of America - a nearly 140-year-old, member-owned, fraternal financial services organisation based in Rock Island, Illinois. Modern Woodmen serves nearly 730,000 members throughout the United States.
Viktor Uzunov is a 30-year-old Bulgarian-born blockchain entrepreneur and marketing specialist. He moved to London in 2011 to pursue a career in finance and after trying university and studying for a degree in International Relations at the University of Greenwich, he dropped out after his second year to gain some practical experience and start an entry-level marketing position in a small London company. After a year there, Viktor managed to talk his way into a Marketing and Client Entertainment role at Jefferies LLC
without having an inkling of what exactly he was supposed to be doing. Fast forward a few years and he managed to climb all the way to becoming Strategy Marketing and Client Entertainment Manager for EMEA/AP and a master of the craft.
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