Category Archives: Leadership Skills

Why leaders need to embrace decline, according to an Oxford leadership expert

  By Dr. Andrew White March 14, 2023   How many times have you seen a leader embrace decline within their company with positive and inspirational energy?   It’s not a common occurrence. After all, through our traditional view of leadership, only a weak CEO would enter a period of decline in this way. Good … Continue reading Why leaders need to embrace decline, according to an Oxford leadership expert

North Star goals for category leaders: First-party customer view

Having an effective first-party data strategy means you can balance two sets of customer needs — personalization and privacy. Greg Kihlstrom on January 30, 2023 This is the second of a four-part series on the North Star goals that set category leaders apart from their peers. The first part (one-to-one, omnichannel personalization) can be found … Continue reading North Star goals for category leaders: First-party customer view

This powerful leadership style gets results (without coming off as a jerk)

By Dileepan Siva—Minutes     May 27, 2022 Though she stood at only 4’10”, Madeleine Albright was always the most commanding presence in the room (I know from experience. As an immigrant with political aspirations, I saw Albright as a role model. She was also an immigrant—born in Czechoslovakia to Jewish parents, her family fled … Continue reading This powerful leadership style gets results (without coming off as a jerk)

Leaders: This is how your team wants you to respond to political issues

By Roxanne Petraeus     May 22, 2022 I used to think great leaders had the answers; now I think great leaders grapple with hard questions, especially the ones that elude easy answers.    I started my company a few months before the pandemic. Since then, almost every month has brought some massive world event, natural … Continue reading Leaders: This is how your team wants you to respond to political issues

This is how to develop goals that align your team and improve performance

By Amy Kan   May 20, 2022 Throughout my many years in a corporate career, no matter the industry, size of the company, or the country, there was always some kind of individual performance management that involved goal-setting. The most effective version used key performance indicators (KPIs) that cascaded down the organization from the executive … Continue reading This is how to develop goals that align your team and improve performance