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You are what you measure: Why effective metrics are the heart of performance management. In the Forbes article “You Are What You Measure,” Jacob Drucker points out an essential truth: if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. This idea isn’t just theoretical; it’s at the heart and soul of effective performance management. Imagine your organization’s performance as a roadmap to success, where strategic goals meet practical execution. Measurement is the...

Steve Payne, Vice Chair of Consulting for Ernst & Young Americas said, “Empathy is not only a “nice to have”, but the glue and accelerant for business transformation in the next era of business.” This quote comes from a 2021 E&Y Survey showing how empathy can raise profit, productivity, creativity, trust, and collaboration in an organization,...

Davos has always been more than a conference for the global elite. It is where global anxiety crystallizes into agenda. It is where ambition either becomes architecture or evaporates into rhetoric. As the world enters 2026, one reality is unavoidable, because the era of ESG storytelling has quietly expired. In...

As they say, ladies are from Venus, gentlemen are from Mars, but as it goes in the famous song "Deep in Love" by Tom Boxer & Morena (featuring J. Warner), when we are together we create stars. And indeed, females have a different type of intelligence as compared with their male counterparts. The reason for this...

Passion. Motivation. Rallying a diverse group of people around a common cause.  Obsession with a shared goal. There are strong overlaps between growth strategies and sports.  Our organizational language is also filled with sports terms, from Monday morning quarterbacking to taking a punt.  Metaphors matter, and for growth strategy some...

U.S. household and nonprofit net worth climbed by $6.1 trillion in the third quarter of 2025 to roughly $181.6 trillion, the highest level on record. The bulk of this increase came from a $5.5 trillion jump in directly and indirectly held corporate equities, underscoring how tightly household wealth is now...

Asia’s Cash Mountain Meets a Turning Point Across Asia, households still keep an unusually high share of their wealth in cash and deposits—often as much as 50–55% of net worth—rather than in equities, bonds or diversified assets. In mature markets such as the US and Western Europe, comparable household cash...

Senior leaders hide more of who they are than any other group in the workplace. In our study of 2,000 U.S. employees, the C-suite reports covering—intentionally downplaying or hiding aspects of themselves to fit in—at least sometimes across an average of 47% of the dimensions we measured. This is significantly higher than upper...

A Distinct Framework for Global Excellence Malta’s standing as a nation that values contribution, culture, and character has few parallels. Through the Granting of Citizenship by Naturalisation on the Basis of Merit Regulations (Subsidiary Legislation 188.06), the island nation extends one of Europe’s most exclusive invitations — citizenship recognition based on achievement,...

The basics of good negotiations should be an essential part of the training and “war” chest of any CEO or marketing and businessperson out there. Fiorella Erni, co-founder and CEO at Cheetah Stories, a vegan stiletto start-up based in Switzerland and with manufacturing operations in Italy, is also a negotiation rock-star, with solid fieldwork in the most delicate areas of...