One of the most effective emerging leadership disciplines requires the least amount of activity and the most amount of focus. With so many distractions around us, Dr Corrie Block, a leading business strategist,...

Talking about AI is particularly challenging because even though the technology is developing exponentially, most business leaders don’t have any idea how to react to the advent of AI.  Business leaders need to accept that AI is currently...

This was an energising conversation. Once again, interviews need to be longer to determine the real capacities of candidates.  Secondly, modular and decentralised education is the norm now, and these tools can be used for internal upgrading as...

This was an “elephant in the room” conversation about issues facing family businesses in the UAE. Two things stood out from this discussion:    First, legal ownership is not a leadership skill or a management qualification, so promoting...

On Episode 5 of Business is Personal, we discuss how to mitigate the 'Dubai gap' - the gap between the title on someone's business card and the actual skills and capabilities of the individual. Are HR departments equipped to deal with the skills gap?...

Gone are the days of seeking CVs, or handing out CVs. There’s just too many out there, and they are unreliable, and often uninformative. We hire based on relationships now, so companies need to hunt down and court the leaders that they want to add...

Two of my Executive Leadership clients won CEO awards this year. It’s a privilege to work with truly exceptional CEOs. It was so much fun to sit with quality leaders and discuss exceptional leadership. CEOs in the GCC need to be fast and flexible....

The digital capture of reviews and reactions, searches and likes, has opened us up to a new world where commentary is a commodity, to be generated, harvested, bundled, marketed, and sold to the highest bidder. We ourselves are no longer just the...

There is an inherent and often unarticulated way in which we choose our colleagues, employees, clients, suppliers, and collaborators based on shared values. It isn’t enough anymore to determine whether or not someone has the competencies required to...