Viewed in Heidrick & Struggles Insights Every company can enjoy a period of exceptional performance. A successful product launch, a major acquisition, or favorable market conditions can produce impressive results. The harder challenge is maintaining that performance over many years, through changing markets, leadership transitions, and inevitable periods of fatigue. This article from Heidrick &… More
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Viewed in Russell Reynolds Associates insights Not as support functions.As drivers of growth. In many organizations, tech still plays defense.Keeping systems running. Managing risk. Supporting operations. In others, it’s different. Technology, data, and digital sit closer to the CEO.Closer to customers.Closer to revenue. How is the role evolving? Today’s top tech leader often spans:technology, data,… More
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Viewed in Fortune.com The 2025 Fortune Global 500 captures the true economic engine of our time. Collectively, these 500 companies generated $41.7 trillion in revenue—over one-third of global GDP—and employ more than 70 million people worldwide. With $2.98 trillion in profits, including $1 trillion from the financial sector, they recorded their second-best year ever. These… More
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The top leadership team’s role isn’t just to execute the CEO’s goals—it’s to optimize the enterprise’s ability to succeed.
CEOs often conflate the team’s purpose with hitting targets like increasing sales or cutting costs, but its unique mission lies in balancing ambition with pragmatism.
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Viewed in Tomasz Tunguz For any ambitious sales executive, the temptation might always prove too irresistible: Hype their product or service, exaggerating it beyond reasonable expectations, to be sure a sale is secured. If this extra hype actually helps secure the sale, what’s so wrong with that? Hype pitfalls In this article, venture capitalist Tomasz… More
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Viewed in BCG How important does management consulting giant BCG believe data will prove to today’s companies? Data is “akin to oxygen in most industries, and companies know they need to build core capabilities in order to capitalize on it,” the firm writes in this November 17 report. With a corporate asset and function that… More
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Viewed in McKinsey & Company The role of a chief executive officer in the 21st century is a challenging one. Looking for something even more challenging? That likely would be serving as a CEO for a private equity-owned portfolio company. More private equity-owned companies With private equity’s growing prevalence in corporate ownership, it is a… More
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Viewed in Russell Reynolds Associates There seems a singular common denominator running through most business analysis and commentary these days: Business is changing rapidly and hugely, and it will never again be the same. For the most part, it is the global pandemic, which now has taken over four million lives, that is cited as… More
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Viewed in BCG Management consulting leader BCG is known for being ahead of the curve in management and industry trends, and its reports very commonly help in understanding what companies should do to prepare for that future. Three Major Disruptive Forces This BCG report, based on the firm’s book Beyond Great, contends that three major… More
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Viewed in McKinsey When the pandemic first emerged earlier this year, businesses largely prepared for what was thought to be, at first, a multi-week disruption. That quickly became a multi-month disruption. And then finally as summer arrived, it was clear that predictions that rising temperatures would bring it to an end were inaccurate. The precise… More
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Viewed in BCG As companies develop and refine their corporate strategies for growth, profitability and success, an environment of uncertainty requires their attention. BCG, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms, evaluates four macro-level scenarios based on “important geopolitical, technological, and socioeconomic uncertainties” that deserve the attention of those engaged in the development of… More
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