Mastering the Cycles of CEO Leadership Summary Chief Executive Group is hosting a webinar on 24 September 2025 featuring Carolyn Dewar of McKinsey, drawing on research from the forthcoming book A CEO For All Seasons. The session examines the lifecycle of CEO leadership, with a focus on the first and fourth stages: preparing to step […]
Desk Stretches: The Essential Guide For CEOs Summary This guide from Chief Executive and Mayo Clinic Executive Health explains simple, high‑impact stretches you can do at your desk to prevent stiffness, pain and repetitive‑strain issues common among executives who sit for long periods. The article groups easy moves into neck, forearm/wrist, upper body, seated and […]
Brooklyn Navy Yard CEO Runs A Thriving Manufacturing Hub By Keeping Its Spirit Alive Summary The Brooklyn Navy Yard, once a U.S. Navy shipbuilding facility, is now a major urban manufacturing ecosystem led by CEO Lindsay Greene. The Yard hosts more than 550 businesses, employs over 13,000 people and delivers roughly $2.5 billion a year […]
The CEO Addiction To Busyness Summary This article argues that “busyness” has become an addiction among senior leaders: a badge of honour that hides exhaustion, poor decision-making and declining organisational performance. Drawing on peer experience and research from bodies such as the American Psychological Association, Mayo Clinic and Deloitte, the author describes how constant activity […]
RingCentral Acquires CommunityWFM for AI Workforce Management Summary RingCentral has acquired CommunityWFM, integrating its AI-driven workforce management (WFM) capabilities into the RingCX contact centre platform. The combined offering, now marketed as RingCentral AI Workforce Management, is available as an add-on to RingCX customers, starting at $20 per agent per month. The integration brings cloud-based scheduling, […]
Employee Engagement: A Big Issue That Requires A Small Approach Summary Despite decades of programmes and metrics, employee engagement is at a low ebb. Robert Logemann argues that leaders too often overcomplicate the problem. The most effective fixes are small, everyday acts: handing teams ownership, improving onboarding, and making consistent, genuine connections that build trust […]
A Strategy For Getting The Right People Summary David Barrow, CEO of GSC Technologies, credits a simple hiring framework and focused strategic work for turning around the manufacturer since 2021. His SWAN method (Smart, Work Ethic, Ambitious, Nice) provided a lens for selecting leaders and building teams that could execute a clear set of priorities. […]
Ready To Fire Your CMO? Read This First Summary The article argues that when CEOs consider dismissing their CMO, the underlying cause is often a broken enterprise system for marketing rather than poor talent. Marie Bahl outlines four structural problems undermining marketing leadership: tool sprawl, fragmented data, faulty attribution expectations and constrained budgeting. These combine […]
Contentstack Agent OS: AI-Powered CMS for Context-Driven Digital Experiences Summary Contentstack has launched Agent OS, an AI-driven headless CMS focused on context rather than static content. The platform promises real-time, one-to-one personalisation by combining customer history, preferences and live context to adapt brand interactions on the fly. Key components include Brand Context Access, a Polaris […]
Optimizely Enhances Opal With AI Agent Orchestration Tools Summary Optimizely unveiled new agentic capabilities for its Opal platform at Opticon 2025. The update introduces a library of specialised AI agents for marketing tasks, tools to build custom agents using your own data and instructions, and a no-code drag-and-drop workflow orchestrator that sequences agents into multi-step […]
