How pencil-maker Faber-Castell balances stewardship of its brand with innovation, evolution, and adopting new technologies.
How to effectively grow leadership in yourself and your employees.
We all now live and work in an increasingly fast world, characterized by multiple, often conflicting demands on our time and attention—and an overarching pressure to achieve more with the same or fewer resources. Sometimes, multifactorial demand…
You may be incredibly bright, but showing your intelligence in the moment can be challenging, like if you’re called on unexpectedly in a meeting. The most significant barrier to communicating effectively and sounding smart is the fact that we al…
The CFO role was named for its original function of overseeing an organization’s finances, but it’s now seen as a cross-cutting common denominator linking every part of an organization.
Fighting to prove it can compete in emerging arena
Investors speaking with companies about safety measures
Brainstorming sessions can be a great way to generate new ideas. Your success, however, is dependent on the prompts you’re giving your team. Tried-and-true questions may be popular, but they also may stunt creativity.
“There’s s…
The paradigm shift is instructive to other industries, too.
I often think about the Maggie Smith line in Downton Abbey “What is a weekend?” Being a Countess, she didn’t know what a weekend was because she had no workweek. But there was a time in the not so distant past when working American…
