Companies worldwide are swelling with younger employees, giving rising leaders a greater voice and potential impact. While boomers are generally retiring, with diminishing influence, a handful are enforcing traditional work policies to assert power an…
One of the most important resilience skills you can learn is self-compassion. So many of us are skilled at displaying compassion when engaging with friends and colleagues, but we don’t extend that same courtesy to ourselves.
For instance, if …
Do you like to make others happy? Probably. Extending care and kindness feels good. Too much of a good thing, though, can cross a line. Kindness can become people-pleasing when you develop a habit of prioritizing the needs of others over your own, say…
Today’s rapidly developing risk landscape demands a new, more nimble approach for insurance companies to assess and respond to risks, a function inherently in their DNA.
Business leaders must go beyond mitigating geopolitical risks to seizing the opportunities presented by the new world order. Here’s how.
When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the GI Bill into law on June 22, 1944, it laid the foundation for benefits that would help generations of veterans achieve social mobility.
Formally known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the bi…
During his campaign for reelection, Donald Trump vowed to purge the military of so-called “woke” generals. Now that he is president-elect, the question in the halls of the Pentagon is whether he would go much further.
Trump is expected …
My work in the retail businesses of corporate America isn’t confined to those at the top of the C Suite. I also team up with emerging leaders who need support from a gut check partner as they build their careers. Often the advice I give isn’t based on…
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pa…
The Washington Post recently announced that all employees will soon be required to work from an office five days per week—and became the latest in a long line of employers to force workers to return to the office (RTO).
Indeed, several companies h…
