There are 7.8 billion people in the world, and 49.6% of them are women. Yet according to Statista, only 26.5% of executive, senior-level and management positions in S&P 500 companies are held by women. And fewer than 8% of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are...
Over the past several months a lot has been written about the challenges of working from home (WFH) due to COVID-19. We offered our own advice and tips for managing remotely in a previous blog post. Even pre-COVID, however, there were challenges to be addressed...
From the beginning, ExecOnline recognized the importance of helping leaders develop skills more holistically--addressing not just the business but the people at the heart of that business. The events of the past six months have shown that no path is predictable. And now that professional...
Oftentimes our ability to think creatively, foster resilience, and lead through a crisis can be influenced by how we monitor our state of mind. However, shifting mindsets and gaining a greater sense of control of our responses during a crisis can be challenging. To help you,...
While some industries and companies have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic and are facing steep revenue losses, others are scrambling to adjust their operations just to try to keep up with demand. Many organizations fall somewhere in the middle of the two. They...
Stephen Bailey, CEO and Founder of ExecOnline, joined experts from around the globe for this week's #AskReuters Twitter chat to discuss an important topic on many of our minds today: working remote. It was incredible to see so many leaders come together to share their...
As we kick off 2020, many of us are busy creating resolutions for the year ahead. While we tend to think about resolutions as things we can improve in our personal lives, making resolutions specific to our professional goals can also be very beneficial. In...
Across this holiday season, there will be many opportunities to take a moment and reflect. Whether you are reflecting on the things that you are grateful for or the things you wish to change, reflection in itself is a healthy and necessary exercise both this...
Columbia’s Willie Pietersen Breaks Down Everything You Need to Succeed [vc_separator type="transparent"] L&D is undergoing a dramatic shift. Today’s leaders are asked to play a larger role in their organization’s strategic planning. To help you succeed, we sat down with Willie Pietersen, Columbia Business School professor and...
Today’s business leaders grapple with unprecedented levels of complexity. Thanks to rapid advancement in information technology over the past few decades, systems and organizations have become more interconnected, interdependent, and nuanced than ever. Complexity makes virtually every process -- from basic decision making to advanced...
For most leaders, change is on the horizon in 2017. According to ExecOnline’s recent Trump and Leadership survey, 78% of business leaders across top companies expect to make at least one big strategy change as a result of the 2016 US Presidential election. Yet, most...
Leaders often suffer from blind spots when it comes to identifying their biggest execution challenges. In fact, almost half of executives tell us that senior leaders at their firms are not aware of critical execution challenges. In our last post, we explored the strategy execution challenges...
Effective business strategy is, in its own way, a living, breathing entity. It evolves to suit the times, with conventional wisdom giving way to disruptive innovation and new strategies forged from repeated success. Two topical articles, featuring insight by ExecOnline's Leading Strategic Growth faculty and top Columbia professors Rita McGrath...