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Governance
March 2026 · 4 min read

Shareholder Activism: The Hidden Cost of CEO Turnover

When shareholders replace a CEO through an activist campaign, the most significant consequences often emerge quietly, through the disruption that cascades across the wider leadership team.

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Leadership
February 2023 · 2 min read

Leadership Alignment: Identifying Disconnects

Three warning signs of leadership misalignment — breach of trust, vision disconnection, and resilience gaps — and why addressing them early prevents deeper organizational dysfunction.

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Leadership
October 2021 · 2 min read

The Digital Exhaustion and the Big Quit

The paradox of digital exhaustion and remote work desire, and why leadership — not work mode — determines whether people stay.

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Digital Transformation
September 2021 · 1 min read

Digital Jargon Is All Greek to Leaders

The risk of losing digital talent and transformation momentum when business leaders cannot understand the technical language of their own organizations.

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Innovation
August 2021 · 1 min read

The Way Out of the Conundrum

Disruption has an inherited negative connotation, as it is mainly considered a disturbance. The constant increase in the rate of disruption occurrences...

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Leadership
November 2020 · 1 min read

When the World Was Buying Food, Leaders Were Buying Learning

How CEOs increased learning and development by 70% during the pandemic, investing in knowledge as the most valuable ROI.

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Work-Life Balance
August 2020 · 1 min read

Reinventing Holidays

“Out of office” and “Do not Disturb” messages have never really been a choice for business leaders, who no matter what and where, they always ensured that...

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Family Business
July 2020 · 4 min read

Second-Generation Family CEOs: The Bet to Success

With family businesses being the dominant business type worldwide, the emerging second-generation CEOs is becoming a critical mass of leaders who...

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Leadership
June 2020 · 1 min read

The Leader of the Heart

Mr. Dimitris Mavros, CEO of MRB presented at the Dephi Forum 2020 the results of the survey “the Greek Leadership Reinvented”. The survey results, which...

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Innovation
June 2020 · 1 min read

The Rules of Gaming in the Hands of Business Leaders

Simon Sinek as an invited speaker at the SAS Global forum event said that business leaders should be playing with the rules of the infinite game. A very...

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Digital Transformation
June 2020 · 4 min read

The Webinar Era

The last three months I have counted that I have participated in almost 45 webinars – organized by third parties – and I have received an invitation for...

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Leadership
April 2020 · 1 min read

Finding Meaning in Digital Isolation

Recent data published by LinkedIn, reports that 54% of senior leaders currently undertake virtual meetings, 36% of the workers are happier working from...

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Crisis Management
April 2020 · 2 min read

Return to Normalcy

I wish that it were so easy that we all listen to an instruction, or an inspiring quote and be motivated and energized enough to follow and implement....

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Leadership
January 2020 · 1 min read

The Most Significant Element of a Leader Is the Leader Himself

Business Leaders are confined to a journey of success and performance. They lead their lives with a personal mission and a purpose that will need to drive...

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Leadership
September 2019 · 1 min read

Mindfulness: The "Per Diem" Moment of Truth for a Leader

“Leaders are caught in having to make daily decisions that relate to the past, or to the future, thus becoming disengaged with the here and now.”

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