Things did not look right to Rep. Al Green (D‑Texas). It was April of this year, three hours into a grilling of the CEOs of seven of the largest U.S. banks before the House Financial Services Committee.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Wall Street Has Never Had a Woman CEO. Why Not?
Things did not look right to Rep. Al Green (D‑Texas). It was April of this year, three hours into a grilling of the CEOs of seven of the largest U.S. banks before the House Financial Services Committee.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Seven Compassionate Leadership Lessons From The Renaissance Man Who Helped Build HBO
Leader: Larry Carlson is the former president of HBO satellite services and a cable TV network pioneer. He retired when he was 49 and now spends his time creating beauty, philosophizing and supporting the people and causes he loves.
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This Scientist and Entrepreneur Proves You Don't Need to Study Business to Succeed in It
Owning and running a company is no small task. It's a difficult, stressful, never-ending process that actually gets more complex as you find success. It's hard enough for people who specifically studied business in school. And for those who didn't study business, the challenge is even more daunting.
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How to Tell the Story Behind Your Business So It'll Launch You to Success
If you want your company to draw in customers, attract and motivate talented employees, and raise capital it helps if you can tell a great story. A great story is viral -- meaning people who hear it can't resist the urge to share it with everyone they know.
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Jeff Bezos Banned PowerPoint and It's Arguably the Smartest Management Move that He's Ever Made
Jeff Bezos recently banned PowerPoint from meetings at Amazon, insisting instead that meetings start with the attendees silently reading a hard-copy document containing the information needed to discuss the issue.
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How This Tiny Island Country Is Making a Big Impact in Fintech and Blockchain
Some of the first things you are told about Bermuda when you arrive is to check out the beautiful pink-sand beaches and enjoy a bowl of the famous fish chowder and a "dark and stormy," a popular island drink.
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Want to Be a Better Leader? Don't Skimp on Your Hobbies
Hobbies are a beautiful thing for leadership in that they allow you to relax even when you're facing a ton of challenges. They're also a fun way to develop other skills you can transfer to your job later on.
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4 Tips on How to Make Board Meetings Less Stressful and More Productive, From an Actual Board Member and CEO
For far too many CEOs, board meetings are a cause of stress. They send their teams in a frenzy pulling together materials, there are late-night fire drills of prep sessions, and the meetings feel like one big show-and-tell.
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6 Leadership Books to Guide You Toward Better Decisions in 2020
Leaders are forced to make tough decisions every single day. While every choice matters, it's the most difficult decisions that separate great leaders from the rest. And as 2019 comes to a close, the early decisions of 2020 loom large. In today's business world, growth is the name of the game.
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Stressed? Anxious? Pay Attention to This 1 Brain Protein
I hate stress. Work-related stress is especially evil and can die in a fire. But every day, we're learning more and more about the biological and psychological factors involved in stress and how they influence each other.
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Saturday, October 26, 2019
Nike's CEO Is Stepping Down and Will Be Replaced By a Former eBay Boss
Under Mark Parker's tenure, Nike has seen sales and shares surge but has also been beset by controversies.
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Friday, October 25, 2019
The Future 50
Join Fortune and Worldz in Los Angeles This October for our ‘Future 50’ List Reveal
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Most Powerful Women International
You still have to squint to spot the women leading large global businesses. In 2019, female executives helmed just 14 of the world’s 500 largest companies—and that was actually an improvement over the previous year, when there were only 12.
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The People vs. Donald Trump: An Updated Guide to Every Major Lawsuit and Investigation Facing the President
Donald Trump has an unprecedented number of legal entanglements compared to any previous president.
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11 Female CEOs and Founders on What It’s Really Like to Have a Baby While Running Your Company
As generations of small business founders can attest, having a baby while running a company is nothing new. But in the world of big business, leaders who just happen to give birth while occupying the corner office has remained—not unheard of—but certainly relatively rare.
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Walmart Will Give You $30 for Trading In Your Child’s Old Car Seat
Need to clean out your garage and get a little extra spending money? Walmart is hosting a child car seat recycling event this week that will pay $30 for seats your child has outgrown. Nearly 4,000 Walmart locations are taking park in the event, which runs through Sept. 30.
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Why Great Leaders Listen
There is something remarkably powerful about listening. Those who know Melinda Gates well—and even some of those who have met her just once—remark at how good she is at this skill.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Leadership Lessons From the VMAs: raceAhead
The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards aired last night at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. And while there was a wonderful and long overdue tribute to the talent the city has produced, one presumes the stars brought their own bottled water.
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Monday, October 21, 2019
Leadership From A Dancing Guy
This is leadership from a dancing guy Sasquatch music Festival 2009. Official transcript at https://ift.tt/2o2mJBt If you've learned a lot about leadership and making a movement, then let's watch a movement happen, start to finish, in under 3 minutes, and dissect some lessons:A leader needs
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7 Leadership Lessons I Learned from My Managers
I’ve always loved this quote from the former Prime Minister of Prussia. I try to look for lessons to learn all around me, whether they’re good or bad. Fortunately, not every lesson is a negative experience. Often, some of the best lessons are what works.
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The Leadership Lessons I Learnt From Niccolo Machiavelli
As I pondered who to ‘learn from’ this week, I decided to go left-field and pick a historical figure who supposedly exemplified ‘bad’ leadership. Today, the word ‘Machiavellian’ refers to someone, especially a political figure, who is viewed as sly, cunning, unscrupulous and ruthless.
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Leadership Games and Activities
Upcoming SlideShare Loading in …5 × Leadership Games and Activities 2. Ask each person in the group to think of two true facts about themselves, and one lie. Each person in the group takes a turn telling the group their three items.
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Habitudes® Leadership Curriculum
Habitudes combines images, relatable stories and experiences into leadership lesson plans that resonate with today’s young adults, equipping them to navigate through life’s challenges and opportunities.
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Sunday, October 20, 2019
Why Amazon Remains the Most Fascinating Company in the World
Amazon and its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, draw attention as people wonder if the company has too much power.
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The Three Biggest Risks Facing CEOs: CEO Daily
Good morning. What are the biggest risks CEOs face today? That’s the question I asked MMC CEO Dan Glaser at his Manhattan office yesterday. Glaser’s company is a leader in risk management, so not surprisingly, he had an answer. Actually, three answers. Each beginning with “C”.
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Friday, October 18, 2019
Leadership lessons from Alabama football coach Nick Saban
If you want to figure out what makes Nick Saban tick, start with the little things. It’s noon on a recent Thursday, and I’ve been invited inside the multiple-national-championship- winning University of Alabama football coach’s inner sanctum.
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The dangers of playing favorites at work
In any organization, it is important to reward high-performing employees in order to motivate and retain your talent. However, companies need to be careful when allocating monetary and other rewards to avoid playing favorites with select employees.
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The Black Ceiling: Why African-American Women Aren’t Making It to the Top in Corporate America
It was supposed to be different by now. When Ursula Burns quietly shut off the light to her office as Xerox CEO at the end of 2016, her departure also cast a light on a sad statistic: There are currently zero African-American women running Fortune 500 companies.
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Arianna Huffington : On World Mental Health Day, the Conversation Should Shift from Awareness to Action
People should be empowered with the tools to spot the warning signs of mental health challenges, and make they changes they need.
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The Most Fascinating Standoff in Corporate America: The Accountant Who Exposed Madoff vs. GE
Who's right, the sleuth who exposed Bernie Madoff's gigantic Ponzi scheme, or GE's prestigious board and highly-regarded CEO, a team lauded on Wall Street for making great progress in rescuing and reforming the battered conglomerate?
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A Majority of Economists Think the Next Recession Will Come by the 2020 Election
How’s the economy doing? Better than you might expect, and worse than you might have hoped, according to the National Association of Business Economics.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
The Fortune 500 Has More Female CEOs Than Ever Before
In the latest Fortune 500 list, published Thursday, you’ll find a new record: As of June 1, 33 of the companies on the ranking of highest-grossing firms will be led by female CEOs for the first time ever.
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Apple’s Tim Cook leads different
Tim Cook assumed he was ready for the harsh glare that shines on Apple’s (AAPL) CEO. He had, after all, filled in for Jobs three times during the Apple founder’s medical leaves of absence. Cook ultimately became the company’s chief executive six weeks before Jobs died, in October 2011.
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These Are the Women CEOs Leading Fortune 500 Companies
Female CEOs in the Fortune 500 aren't quite the norm yet, but they have been making strides. As of 2017, there are 32 female CEOs on the list, meaning that 6.4% of the U.S.'s biggest companies (by revenue) are run by women.
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Another Popular Blood Pressure Drug Has Been Recalled by the FDA Over Potential Cancer Risk
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is recalling irbesartan, a blood pressure medication, after finding contamination that could cause cancer.
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Customer Vomit Makes Chipotle’s Stock Plummet
Just when it seemed Chipotle had moved past its reputation as a breeding ground for foodborne illnesses, there are reports of another outbreak.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Leadership Lessons
KENNESAW, Ga. (Sep 24, 2019) — The students assembled in Kennesaw State’s University Rooms on Monday might never find themselves in the same type of leadership role that Charles Casto had, when he oversaw the U.S. government’s response to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
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Warren Buffett’s Leadership Lessons
Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway (brka) shareholders, released last Saturday, is scrutinized worldwide for economic and investing insights. Understandably so; in 2015 Berkshire had, guess what, another knockout year.
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Warren Buffett’s Leadership Lessons
Warren Buffett’s annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway (brka) shareholders, released last Saturday, is scrutinized worldwide for economic and investing insights. Understandably so; in 2015 Berkshire had, guess what, another knockout year.
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Monday, October 14, 2019
Leadership Lessons
The Hall Leadership Lessons program presents state-of-the-art leadership knowledge delivered quarterly in one-hour face-to-face sessions by local and regional leaders.
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The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders
Though it seems unlikely, Tim Cook and Indira Jaising have something in common besides membership in Fortune’s 2018 ranking of the World’s Greatest Leaders. Cook (No. 14) is the wealthy CEO of Apple, the most valuable publicly traded company on earth; Jaising (No.
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4 Best Leadership Lesson Plans for High School
When it comes to career readiness skills, most high school teachers focus on workplace skills like interviewing, professionalism, and customer service. Some teachers may also incorporate 21st Century skills in their classes.
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Aflac CEO On Leadership : Take Care of Your People.. They’ll Take Care of Business
It also helps that the popular duck made Aflac a household name and boosted sales.
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