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…
Many people are unaware there is a gender gap in the feedback given to employees at work. Even if male and female employees perform at precisely the same level, research finds managers prioritize kindness more when giving feedback to women than to men, which reduces the usefulness of the feedback…
Ryan Farsai is a career marketer with operational excellence whose creative thinking solves business challenges. Only a handful of people leading organizations ever had formal training. Of course, if you can find the time, there are a million books. Or, you can watch some TV. As marketers, we appeal to…
Michael is a human resource consultant with Insperity. He specializes in team building, employee engagement and performance improvement. Performance reviews are a critical part of employee development and of business. By providing effective performance reviews annually, managers can help their teams grow and improve their productivity. However, many managers report…
Chief HR Officer, Keck Medicine of USC. Adjunct Professor, USC Marshall School of Business. Keep up with me on my website. What is personality? It's a collective set of an individual's thoughts, actions and emotions based on a wide range of experiences and perspectives they've absorbed, processed and expressed. On…
Cash is queen in a business, and you need a cash management system. One of the most critical components of cash flow involves managing your accounts receivable. However, managing accounts receivables feels overwhelming, particularly for small businesses. Fortunately, there are tools and methods that companies can use to streamline the…
When we talk about achieving gender parity, we have to broaden our scope beyond the obvious gaps, like the pay gap, and consider a lesser known – but equally important – gap: the funding gap. Numbers don’t lie. Currently, only 2% of all VC funding goes to women-led startups, despite…
Meet Roshida, a Rohingya orphan in Bangladesh who narrowly escaped child marriage to find new hope through education at a learning center supported by Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF. By Kent Page There are 1 million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh today. Chased out of Myanmar by a military-led campaign…
“We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.” One of the first uses of the term “artificial intelligence” came in this 1955 proposal for a summer research project. At that point,…
“There are young people who actually believe they have the world by the tail ... It may have something to do with living for the moment” - John Wright, Maru Public Opinion Here is an edited excerpt from this week’s CxO newsletter. To get this to your inbox, sign up…
Since the onset of the global pandemic that introduced supply chain disruptions like never seen before, the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) has ascended the C-suite ranks to a more dignified status, boasting a more elevated role as ‘trusted strategic advisor’, a coveted title sought out by CPOs (and supply chain…
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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