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 p…
There are certain moments that have an outsized effect on a team’s willingness to continue to take risks, admit failure, and challenge ideas. How a leader responds to feedback or challenges is one of these moments. Feedback is a powerful signal of tru…
Over the past two decades, I’ve had the privilege of leading brainstorming sessions with some of the world’s most brilliant minds—from Nobel laureates and royal families to government think tanks and Fortune 500 executives. I’ve partnered …
Starbucks’s new CEO, Brian Niccol, has several challenges ahead of him.
Niccol has already faced criticism for urging corporate employees to work from a Stabucks office while he enjoys a hybrid schedule working from his home in Newport Beach…
With work-life balance centralizing as an issue, employees turn a critical eye to key factors in job satisfaction. We found one shared stressor that unites many: the commute.
So, how far are employees truly willing to commute to work? And how do th…
More often than I’d like this summer, I’d see an open job posting I knew I was qualified for, take the time to craft a personalized cover letter explaining why I was a good fit, and customize my résumé for the role. I’d apply . . . and get an automate…
In August, Australia become the latest of a handful of countries that have adopted laws to effectively codify work-life balance. The “right to disconnect” law, which passed in February, empowers Australian workers to decline calls or ignor…
We sometimes look at motivation backwards: We assume there must be an outcome or reward in order to get ourselves or others motivated to act. This is not what science shows us.
One of the key experiments demonstrating the natural motivation of pri…
Two leading experts discuss why the mobility transition represents a new kind of asset class and the steps stakeholders can take to derisk investment opportunities.
Warby Parker co-CEOs Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal launched their eyewear brand in business school after one of them lost a pair of glasses.




