Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
CCO at ELES, d.o.o., combined transmission and distribution system operator of the Republic of Slovenia; Chair PRCA Slovenia. As a chief communication officer, I get many requests for cooperating/contributing to collaborative spaces—whether online conferences or in person, digital panels and newsletters. While engineers are ready to present world-changing technologies, and…
Carmelina Piedra | Founder, Certified Career Coach, and Executive Innovation Coach & Facilitator at CareerCoachingPro. This past week, I attended an HR conference that solidified everything I already knew about workplace culture and management. What Employees Aren't Getting From Their Managers Employees want to be seen, heard, valued and supported.…
Modern leaders recognise every moment offers the opportunity for us to leave a positive impact on others. Modern leaders are not perfect. Far from it. Leading, like living, is a series of missteps and challenges, setbacks and lessons learnt. We will be invariably learning some of the same lessons our…
The U.S. law protecting workers from age discrimination is not equal to the protections under Title VII that protect workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Pending legislative actions that could put workplace age protections on par have sat in Senate committee for more than two…
We’ve spent decades worrying about the dangers of China’s rise. We should worry even more if that rise is coming to a halt. Tensions between the two countries are as high as they’ve been since the 1980s. And things are likely to get worse. One of the few points of…
When Britney Spears shaved her head in 2007, she instantly became the butt of jokes and casual cruelty. Late-night talk show hosts excoriated her. People on then-nascent social media platforms laughed at her. Even respected journalists used her as a punchline. Spears never provided a real explanation for her choice…
Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, once declared that he and his colleagues would “move fast and break things.” That phrase, which seemed to legitimize recklessness, became an informal motto at the tech giant as well as for many other aspiring entrepreneurs. Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, cohosts of the…
*note: the title of this article was written by Guild’s internal GPT Automation of all kinds is transforming work—with as much as 30% of the work people do today potentially being done by a machine in the near future. And for even a casual reader of the news, it would…
Comcast NBCUniversal celebrates ten years of their award-winning Voices of the Civil Rights Movement platform by releasing ten never-before-seen video interviews on Black Experience on Xfinity (BEX), further expanding the collection of over 200 firsthand interviews featuring American civil rights champions such as award-winning Broadway actress, singer, and lifelong civil…
Washington has shown increasing levels of hostility toward Beijing. Leadership in European Union (EU) has adopted Washington’s tone, if a bit less strident. In the United States talk increasingly includes the phrase “de-couple from China.” The Europeans prefer the word “de-risk,” but it comes to the same thing. Independently and…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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