Marie-Claire Ross

CEO-thinking

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What Steve Jobs and Other Great CEOs Have in Common

Have you ever wished you could have worked alongside some of the world’s best CEOs? How about the chance to have worked alongside Steve Jobs? Closely watching his every move so you could model the behaviours you admired. Or what about working with a...

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5 Steps to Encourage Employees to Trust During Cultural Change

“It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes. Leaders die,...

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5 Secret Strategies of Smart Leaders

A couple of months ago I went out for drinks with some of the graduates I studied with at the AICD company director’s course. One of the members had...

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Four Business Trends Every Business Leader Needs to Know for 2017

Despite the sluggish worldwide economy that we have experienced in 2016, economists still expect global growth forecasts to remain fairly static in...

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5 Steps for Leaders to Increase Cross-Functional Collaboration

As organisations get bigger through organic growth or acquisitions, consolidation becomes an important value creation strategy to provide economies...

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Why the World Needs Trustworthy Business Leaders More than Ever

One of my darkest times as an entrepreneur was winning the contract to undertake all of the audiovisual requirements at Fashion Week. It involved...

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Why your Awesome “Culture” makes me Vomit

For over a year, I’ve been running monthly executive roundtables with CEOs, entrepreneurs and executives. On a couple of occasions I’ve had two...

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3 Strategies High-Trust Companies Use to Avoid Fatiguing Employees with Change

The pace of change within most organisations is accelerating. It’s now commonplace for companies to be restructuring, changing their business model,...

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Are you Relying too Heavily on Employee Engagement Surveys?

Around the world, there’s growing discontent about the ineffectiveness of employee engagement surveys. Over the last fifteen years, employee...

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Why Fulfilling People’s Tribal Needs Improves Business Results

Thousands of years ago, when humans roamed the African savannah, it was in our best interests to live in tribes. Being part of a tribe allowed us to...

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