Leadership

Fleur Hicks, of financial consulting firm onefourzero, wins ‘CEO of the Year in the Consulting Industry’

Hicks embodies all of the values that add up to a great leader and as a deserved winner in the European CEO awards 2021, she continues to empower and inspire those around her on the road to success

13 Dec 2021

How Europe can work together to grow Unicorns

Europe is home to fewer than one in 13 of the world’s Unicorns, 7.2 percent. The bulk of the largest innovative companies are in the US and Asia. To push Europe into a leadership role in the coming decade of digital innovation, we need to change our approach.

8 Sep 2021

How trust, not power, is increasingly the currency of leadership

As business moves into a more social age, the responsibility for promoting trust has become fundamental not just for leadership, but for the overall health of a company’s single largest asset: its employees

13 Oct 2020

Top 5 ways to manage the board during turbulent times

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented number of challenges to CEOs of European organisations

6 Oct 2020

Top 5 tips for a successful joint venture

A joint venture can be an effective way to share business risks during an economic downturn, while also injecting some entrepreneurial spirit into both companies. Here, European CEO outlines five top tips to making the marriage a happy one

28 Aug 2020

FirewoodFX guides traders to success in volatile market

FirewoodFX is helping its clients make the most of the extreme volatility that has rattled forex markets during the pandemic

7 Aug 2020

Why expertise can lead to bad decision-making

Managers at the top of their field have worked for years to earn the right to call themselves experts, but their knowledge could be holding them back

7 May 2020

Businesses must make space for Generation Z in the workplace

Discussions of how businesses can appeal to today’s Millennial workforce have come a little too late. The next cohort of workers – Generation Z – is already on the scene, and differs significantly from those who have come before

27 Nov 2019

The benefits of applying attachment theory to your workforce

Attachment theory was originally developed as a way of understanding how children bond with their parents, but it also affords great insight into how we interact with colleagues and approach tasks in the workplace

9 Jul 2019

How to avoid the fatal mistakes that cost new CEOs their jobs

Many CEOs fail within the first 18 months of holding the role. Elizabeth Matsangou explores the mistakes that many chief executives make, and how these can be avoided

2 Jul 2019

People typically associate companies like Deliveroo and Über with the gig economy, but all organisations must be willing to adapt to this new age of working

The leadership implications of the gig economy

In recent times, advances in technology and social transformation have fuelled the emergence of the gig economy, changing the employment landscape for businesses and workers alike

13 May 2019

Leading by example: the benefits of becoming a corporate mentor

Mentoring can transform the careers of young employees, but the benefits work both ways. Elizabeth Matsangou explores what an effective mentoring programme can do for leaders and their organisations

2 Apr 2019

How Sintetica is making every employee a leader

Swiss pharmaceutical firm Sintetica is taking a revolutionary approach to its organisational structure in order to bring out the best in its people. This is creating a culture of passion and innovation at the company

23 Jan 2019

Engineering a better body with autologous cell therapy

After more than a century of research, cell therapy has advanced to a level where preventing transplant rejection is not its only use. Using the method to repair damaged cartilage is the magnum opus of Germany-based CO.DON

21 Jan 2019

Are great leaders born or made?

Elizabeth Matsangou delves into management’s age-old nature versus nurture debate

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