Category: Savvy CEOs

Subscribe to Real Leaders Learn to connect your soul with your role. The achievements, consumer evolution, and commercial productivity of our industrial world are remarkable. Yet, this productivity has also yielded very real costs in the forms of alcoholism, domestic violence, suicide, drug abuse and addiction, depression, and ever-expanding economic inequality. Driving these costs is…

Subscribe to Real Leaders Avoid the clash over mandates and successfully bring employees back to their desks. For many companies, strict return-to-office mandates aren’t working, resulting in resistance and even walkouts. We expected the return to the workplace to feel positive, a signal that we were back to normal times. However, mandates that include enticements,…

Subscribe to Real Leaders Form deeper emotional bonds with your team to create a more inspired, kinder workplace Some leaders like to think that showing no emotion is what makes them successful. They strive to keep emotions and even intuition out of the workplace, and they face societal pressure to appear strong rather than vulnerable…

Subscribe to Real Leaders In our 55 years of combined experience, we’ve learned that building a brand your team will embrace and your customers will love in perpetuity takes time, energy, and vision. It also takes the realization that brand building — just like culture building — is a constant process. When those two efforts…

Subscribe to Real Leaders With the power of knowledge and preparation, you’ll never be tempted to make a quick change again. Because of widespread change fatigue and increased pressure to perform, it’s tempting for leaders  to take shortcuts when making important decisions. But quick changes can introduce costly errors in judgment and inhibit the development…

Subscribe to Real Leaders Make these adjustments to provide more inclusive support. The United Kingdom Parliament rejected a proposed law change in January that would have helped protect the rights of menopausal employees. This was due to fears of discrimination against men in the workplace — bringing women’s health to the forefront of the workplace…

Subscribe to Real Leaders I founded a software company at 24 and grew it to $1 billion plus valuation over 10 years. I learned slowly and painfully through trial and error, but you don’t have to. Here are my top 7 mistakes as CEO –– and how to avoid them. How Can Businesses Use AI…

Subscribe to Real Leaders When you’re transitioning out of a company, don’t let the impact, ethos, and culture leave with you. Here are some ways to preserve a legacy so that it lasts far past your time there. 1. Choose your successor wisely.  I’ve experienced firsthand where I’ve had impact in a business and it’s…