Today's Leadership Pulse
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says CEO role is simple, AI will handle decisions
Sundar Pichai told The Verge that being a CEO is "not that complicated" and that AI agents will soon make many routine decisions, freeing leaders to focus on strategy. He noted that Google engineers are shifting from manual coding to directing AI‑driven product teams, reflecting a broader change in how leadership operates.
How Sali Christeson Launched the Go-To Luxury Workwear Brand for Women in Power
Sali Christeson, a former finance and tech professional, launched Argent in 2016 to address the lack of luxury workwear for women in leadership. The label began with neutral suiting and quickly added vivid hues, gaining high‑profile wearers such as Gloria Steinem, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Meghan Markle. A 2020 hot‑pink suit generated viral buzz, expanding the customer base to everyday women seeking confidence in their careers. Christeson now outlines plans for the brand’s 10‑year anniversary and a broader product expansion.
ServiceNow CEO Builds New Business Model Around AI
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott announced that the company’s total addressable market has ballooned to at least $600 billion, up from roughly $90 billion when he took the helm. The rapid leap in AI model capabilities since late 2023 has forced software firms...
Avenue Supermarts Appoints Anshul Asawa as CEO
Avenue Supermarts, the parent of DMart, has installed Anshul Asawa as its chief executive officer and managing director, completing a year‑long succession plan after Ignatius Navil Noronha’s exit on 31 January 2026. Asawa, a former Unilever senior leader with nearly three decades...
Krishna Kumar Singh Takes Additional Charge as CMD of SAIL
Krishna Kumar Singh, SAIL's director (personnel), took on the additional charge of chairman and managing director on April 2, 2026. He brings almost four decades of experience, having joined the Bhilai Steel Plant as a management trainee in 1987 and...
Why the CPO-CFO Partnership Will Define the AI Era
The article argues that the partnership between the chief people officer (CPO) and chief financial officer (CFO) will become a defining leadership relationship in the AI era. AI is automating routine tasks that have traditionally occupied both functions, such as...
Why the CPO-CFO Partnership Will Define the AI Era
The article argues that the partnership between chief people officers (CPOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) will become a decisive factor in the AI era. As AI eliminates routine tasks like resume screening and variance analysis, the remaining decisions—what to...
A Beacon in the Storm: C-Suite Mentoring as a Leadership Imperative
C‑suite leaders now face unprecedented velocity, visibility and complexity, from AI disruption to geopolitical volatility. Data from Russell Reynolds shows CEO turnover rose 16% in 2025 and average tenure fell to 7.1 years, while confidence in handling technological change dropped to...
What’s Really Changing Inside the Airline Industry
Airline executives are in flux as Air Canada’s CEO was ousted over an English‑only crisis statement, while former IAG chief Willie Walsh took the helm of India’s dominant low‑cost carrier IndiGo. At the same time, ITA Airways confirmed its entry...
Transferring the Leadership Mantle to a Successor
Leadership transitions are inherently fragile, often exposing gaps between a departing leader’s identity and the team’s expectations. When predecessors linger, they can unintentionally undermine the successor’s authority, creating confusion and slowing momentum. Effective hand‑offs require the outgoing leader to withdraw...
Why Leaders Matter for a Strong Organisational Culture
Leaders are the primary architects of organisational culture, setting values that cascade through hiring, development, and daily interactions. By articulating clear principles—such as PatSnap’s six core values—executives embed a shared mindset that guides behavior across global teams. Trust, open communication,...
The Australian Wineries in Search of a Succession Plan
Australian wine producers are confronting a looming leadership vacuum as a generation of family owners approaches retirement. With limited interest from the next generation and scarce external talent, many vineyards are exploring sales, mergers, or professional management to secure continuity....
Clevertize Elevates Saumya Agrawal to Co-Founder
Clevertize has promoted Saumya Agrawal, a trainee who joined at the agency’s inception, to co‑founder as it marks eight years in business. The move formalises her long‑standing leadership role and signals a deeper commitment to AI‑enabled marketing and creative services....
66% of Leaders Distrust Productivity Data, Triggering $438 Billion Losses
Time Doctor’s 2026 Productivity & Engagement Benchmarks Report reveals that 66% of senior leaders distrust the data they use to gauge employee output. The mistrust is linked to $438 billion in annual productivity loss, prompting calls for role‑specific metrics and transparent...
Reed Hastings Shares 35‑Year Marriage Playbook Amid Netflix Legacy
In a Business Insider interview, Netflix co‑founder Reed Hastings detailed the routines and mindset shifts that helped him sustain a 35‑year marriage while steering Netflix to global dominance. His candid advice—answering spouse calls, budgeting “missed nights,” and confronting personal hypocrisy—offers...
The Cloister Effect - Part II
The Cloister Effect – Part II wraps up the two‑part series that translates Daniel Ek’s crisis‑driven growth strategy at Spotify into a practical productivity playbook for modern knowledge workers. After detailing Spotify’s 2014‑2015 challenges—Taylor Swift’s catalog pull and Apple Music’s launch—the post...
Broadcom Names Alphabet’s Amie Thuener CFO, Replacing Retiring Kirsten Spears
Broadcom announced that Amie Thuener, Alphabet’s chief accounting officer and corporate controller since 2018, will become its chief financial officer on June 12, succeeding retiring CFO Kirsten Spears. The move brings a seasoned finance leader from the tech giant to...
Raven Software Co-Founder Brian Raffel Retires After 36 Years
Brian Raffel, who co‑founded Raven Software in 1990, announced his retirement after 36 years at the studio. David Pellas will succeed him as studio head, while the studio looks to sustain its role in the Call of Duty franchise and...
Warren Buffett’s Best Advice on How To Read People Like A Book
Warren Buffett emphasizes that reading people hinges on character, not just competence. He starts with integrity, then examines incentives, actions, and long‑term habits to predict behavior. Buffett’s framework treats reputation as a durable data point, insisting that consistent honesty and...
This 1 Leadership Communication Skill Helps You Get Results Without Burning Out Your Team—Or Yourself
Episode 347 of Let’s Grow Leaders introduces a single communication habit—"schedule the finish"—that transforms vague requests into concrete, time‑bound commitments. By replacing terms like “ASAP” with explicit finish dates, leaders can align priorities, reduce miscommunication, and ensure work is completed...
Why ‘Need-to-Know’ Communication Fails Modern IT Teams
Modern IT teams are hamstrung by the "need-to-know" communication style that favors brevity over context. Overused buzzwords and vague language create ambiguity, slowing decision‑making and eroding trust. The rise of AI‑driven tools shows that clarity requires completeness, not just concision....
Lead Better - Transferring the Leadership Mantle to a Successor
In this episode of Lead Better, hosts Scott and Mikey dissect Field Note #1758 on transferring leadership to a successor, exploring why letting go is so challenging across corporate, family, and community settings. They highlight how leaders often conflate their...
Many Productivity Programs Solve the Wrong Problem. This Is What Leaders Should Do Instead
Many firms label declining output as a productivity issue, but the root cause is often poor work design. Leaders typically react with new tools, workflow tweaks, and engagement campaigns, which generate a brief boost before problems resurface. The article argues...
The Cosmetic Surgery Industry Is Mainly Built for Women. So Why Is It Run by Men?
The aesthetics industry is driven largely by women, who spend over $1,000 annually on cosmetic procedures and conduct extensive research before treatment. Yet fewer than 20% of board‑certified plastic surgeons in the United States are women, and only about 8%...
The Diginomica Network Podcast - CIO Subhash Chandra Jose Takes EBRD Beyond the Sunset
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) was originally built with a 20‑year sunset plan but has now operated for 35 years, prompting a major digital overhaul. CIO Subhash Chandra Jose, who took the helm in 2023, outlined a five‑year transformation...
What It Takes to Step Into a C-Level Technology Role
Transformation leaders eyeing C‑level roles must shift from project execution to full ownership of enterprise technology, strategy, and risk. The 2025 State of the CIO shows over 80% of CIOs now focus on digital innovation, AI agendas, and acting as...
Bamburi Cement Plc Appoints Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as Its New CEO
Bamburi Cement Plc announced that Geoffrey Ndugwa will assume the chief executive officer role effective April 1, 2026, succeeding Mohit Kapoor. Ndugwa arrives from the Holcim Group, where he most recently served as Mergers and Acquisitions Projects Director for the MEA region,...
Arav Bolsters Its Team with a New General Manager, Targets €100 Million in Revenue over the Next Three Years
Arav appointed Silvia Menigatti as its first general manager in December 2025, leveraging her 15 years of strategic advisory and M&A experience. The Italian fashion group reported €52 million (≈ $57 million) revenue and €7 million (≈ $7.6 million) EBITDA for FY 2025 and now targets €100 million (≈ $109 million)...
From Administrators to Architects: How Ambitious Mayors and County Leaders Can Boost the Business Ecosystem
Local leaders are reshaping economic competitiveness as national governments stall, turning cities and counties into primary investment magnets. Successful regions—such as Flanders, the Basque Country, Medellín, Lower Saxony, and Baden‑Württemberg—share disciplined focus, rapid decision‑making, and deep public‑private alignment. The article...
Why Is Ethics at the Heart of Good Leadership?
Ethical leadership is presented as the foundation of effective, good leadership, emphasizing the impact of leaders on culture and employee wellbeing. The article outlines a practical five‑step framework—awareness, attitude, relationality, inner values, and learning—to help leaders make life‑affirming choices. It...
Khaitan & Co. Promotes 49 Lawyers to Leadership
Khaitan & Co., one of India’s leading law firms, announced the promotion of 49 lawyers to senior positions, elevating 17 to partners and 32 to counsel. The move expands the firm’s leadership roster to 349 senior members, reflecting a deliberate...
New Presidents: Dakota State, the Citadel, Cal Poly Pomona, Tougaloo and More
A wave of presidential appointments reshapes leadership across U.S. higher education. John Ballard leaves the National Intelligence University for Dakota State, while Frank McKenzie, a cybersecurity specialist, takes the helm at The Citadel. Vanya Quiñones moves from CSU Monterey Bay to Cal Poly Pomona,...
Why the Future of Work Is Humans Managing Agent Teams
Wade Foster, CEO of Zapier, argues that the future workplace will revolve around individual domain experts who orchestrate teams of AI agents rather than large functional groups. He distinguishes deterministic workflows—step‑by‑step automations—from probabilistic agents that decide how to meet a...
EXCLUSIVE: Baccarat Has a New CEO in North America
Baccarat announced Thais Roda as its new chief executive officer for North America, effective Wednesday. Roda arrives from Liaigre Inc., where she drove significant revenue growth and operational restructuring. Her mandate includes boosting the performance of Baccarat's crystal collections, deepening...
Founder Exits Loom over BigBasket, 1mg as Tata Digital Reset Continues
Tata Digital is orchestrating founder exits at its two flagship e‑commerce assets, BigBasket and 1mg, as it moves to install professional CEOs. BigBasket's founders Hari Menon and Vipul Parekh are in final talks to step down and may sell their...
True Leadership Means Accountability Over Authority
Every person I train who starts to look up to me is told the same thing…”one day I’ll f**k up and you will have to tell me I f**ked up. Tell me.” Now that doesn’t apply to like 99.9% of you...
BP Names Carol Howle Deputy CEO to Lead Strategy Overhaul
BP has appointed long‑time executive Carol Howle as deputy chief executive officer, effective immediately. Howle will continue to lead the profitable supply, trading and shipping (ST&S) division while taking charge of BP’s portfolio review, long‑term strategy and sustainability team. The...
Elwood Technologies Appoints Michael Abib as CEO
Elwood Technologies announced Michael Abib as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Chris Lawn. Abib, who joined in 2023 as chief product officer after the Coremont digital‑asset acquisition, has overseen the integration of a full SaaS suite covering execution, portfolio,...
Turn Failure Into Data, Not Just Noise
Failure Is Data - If You Know How to Use It Failure is often framed as a cultural issue, something to normalise, embrace, or “learn from.” That framing is incomplete. The real issue is not whether failure happens. It is whether it...
Startup 360: Tim Fung on 13 Years of Being Airtasker-in-Chief
Tim Fung, co‑founder and CEO of Airtasker, reflects on more than a decade of building Australia’s first online job marketplace in episode 51 of Startup 360. He shares a memorable request where a Tasker was asked to fly to the US, retrieve...
QMusic CEO Kris Stewart Resigns After Five Years, Citing New Challenges
Kris Stewart, chief executive of Queensland’s music‑industry body QMusic, announced his departure after a five‑year tenure marked by revenue more than doubling and deeper government ties. The board has launched a search for his successor as the organization transitions to...
Leveraging the Power of Emotions as You Negotiate
Harvard’s Program on Negotiation is offering a one‑day workshop on September 25, 2026, led by negotiation scholar Daniel L. Shapiro. The course teaches participants how to harness emotions as strategic assets rather than liabilities in any bargaining scenario, from labor contracts to...
PPG Appoints Eric Pateman as Senior Vice President, North America
Plaza Premium Group (PPG) has named Eric Pateman as Senior Vice President for North America, covering Canada, the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. Pateman arrives from Vancouver International Airport, where he served as Chief Experience Officer and helped the...
Why the Most Competent Person on a Team Is Often the Loneliest One in the Room, and Why Nobody Talks...
The article highlights a hidden "competence trap" where high‑performing team members become the go‑to problem solvers, causing their social role to shrink into a utility. As responsibilities and decision‑making gravitate toward them, they experience a form of loneliness that stems...
Snowflake Names Veteran Executive Jonathan Beaulier New CRO, Reaffirms FY2027 Guidance
Snowflake announced Jonathan Beaulier will assume the chief revenue officer role on March 31, 2026, succeeding Mike Gannon. The move coincides with a reaffirmation of the company’s first‑quarter and full‑year fiscal 2027 guidance. Shares slipped 4% on the news, while analysts keep a...
Leading Colorado Toward a Stronger, Inclusive Future
At the Colorado State Capitol, focused on the work ahead and the responsibility of serving the people of Colorado. Grateful for the opportunity to lead, listen, and keep working every day to build a stronger, more inclusive future for our...
Regulate Your Nervous System Before Making Big Decisions
The calm decision protocol. Before any big decision: Sleep first Walk first Breathe first Wait first A dysregulated nervous system cannot access long horizon thinking. Regulate. Then decide.
Shreehas Tambe Becomes First CEO of Newly Combined Biocon
Shreehas Tambe has been appointed the first chief executive officer of the newly combined Biocon entity, formed after Biocon’s merger with contract‑research firm Syngene. The merged company is valued at roughly $5.5 billion and aims to become India’s largest biotech services...
CEO Seeks FCC Meeting After $83M Acquisition, Announces Lay
D.C. Memo: Circle City's McCoy Requests @AGomezFCC Meeting to Discuss @wrtv Growth Plan; McCoy, president and CEO of Circle City Broadcasting, initiated a round of layoffs after paying $83 million to acquire ABC affiliate WRTV in Indianapolis with an...
Are Leaders Spending Energy on What Truly Matters?
Is this what you’re focused on as a manager/leader, or is your leadership energy expended elsewhere? #leadership #management #leadershipeffectiveness https://t.co/NZNB97zOvs
CEOs Blame AI, but Layoffs Stem From Over‑hiring
Tech CEOs: If you blame AI for layoffs, you are lying to yourself. You over hired and should just admit it.