Posts tagged "CEO advice"

Martin Karafilis is the CEO of startup hub Fishburners. He has a long career and pedigree in the space, but it took a mistake from his first startup to help get him here.

A few years ago, Tristan Sternson found himself caught in the crosshairs in the transition from startup to established business with a big project in the works.

Research and observation has identified five key roles that leaders need to fulfill in order to reshape organisational wellbeing.

As Berry tells SmartCompany Plus, her biggest mistake not only affected the business, but left her “pretty broken” too. 

Research shows that taking time off results in lower stress, more success at work and more happiness at home and at work. On the other hand, working longer hours is laden with diminishing returns.

In February, as the world was just coming to grips with COVID-19, Paul Scurrah watched Virgin Australia go into freefall.

Most people turn up to work wanting to do a good job — your task as a leader is to inspire your staff to listen and follow through. So here's how.

If dealing with staff performance is soaking up too much of your time and energy and you’d prefer to be focussing more gratifying activities, read on.

Time and again the use of environmental primes, or nudges, have been set up in the Shopify offices as a way to shape employee behaviour.

Michelle Bridges flew to prominence during the early-2000s after a long-running stint on The Biggest Loser and is now a household name.

In the fifth episode of The Audacity to Fail, Boost Juice founder and Shark Tank judge Janine Allis reveals what it takes to lead a compan…

The ability to negotiate your own worth, build a great network around you and hire the best people will make or break you as a startup found…