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Most leaders follow it without question. This CEO says it's the exact habit keeping their business small.
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Most leaders follow it without question. This CEO says it's the exact habit keeping their business small.
“Congratulations and condolences.” This is a real message a peer sent when I became CEO of BarkleyOKRP in May 2025. And he wasn’t alone in his sentiment. It seems many regard...
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 draw...
On the surface, being a CEO and being an evangelical preacher don’t appear to have much in common. One builds companies. The other builds congregations. Look closer, though, and...
Howard Hochhauser learned from a Wall Street legend that the best way to escape the CEO bubble is to sit down where employees eat.
<p>A false step can send the company in the wrong direction, alienate key stakeholders, and squander the credibility needed to get anything done.</p>
Sometimes the best advice is knowing when to ignore advice.
Ancestry’s Howard Hochhauser says that CEOs get wrapped “in this bubble.” Apple and Duolingo execs are also breaking free by breaking bread with staffers.
Twilio boss Khozema Shipchandler shares how personalized analog messages shape his leadership.
While some founders lean into a traditional executive role as a business grows, On’s leaders are doing the opposite. They say there’s an important reason why.
For a CEO running 650 locations, every decision has to make sense on paper. Except this one.
Even successful companies can find themselves at an inflection point. Markets shift, customers evolve, and the strategies that fueled years of growth may no longer apply. At Match...
This is what each reporting structure costs you as the CEO.
<p>A conversation with former HBS Dean Nitin Nohria on the expectations versus reality of the C-Suite.</p>
Sometimes the smartest AI strategy is slowing down.
Frank Slootman is the only CEO in history to take three enterprise software companies public. Data Domain, then ServiceNow, then Snowflake. At their peaks those three were worth mo...
It’s about knowing what to ask, and having the humility to truly listen.
Test a growth move by asking what an incumbent must sacrifice to match it. The answer shows whether your advantage can survive once competitors respond.
This CEO used to struggle with giving tough feedback.
The more ambitious the strategy, the more dangerous it is to pretend you know exactly how it will succeed. For more than 30 years of mentoring executives, advising business owners...
The first weeks in a new role are not about proving that you have every answer. They are about creating the conditions for better answers.
The founder of Contrarian Thinking and author of the new book "Own or Be Owned" encourages people to leave a meeting at any time.
A practical, honest framework for CEOs who are off plan heading into Q4 — and don't want to carry the same problems into next year.
Back in 2022, I quoted from an interesting post by Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time, where he wrote: I’ve had the opportunity to interact with quite a few senior airline exe...
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