5 Key CEO Insights for the Week Ahead

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1. How to Disrupt Habituation and Supercharge Performance by Embracing Variety with Tali Sharot

"By diversifying your experiences, you can immerse yourself in a continuous state of learning. Research indicates that people derive immense satisfaction from this process of growth and evolution. While we tend to grow accustomed to material possessions, our inclination toward learning remains unaffected by habituation." Read More.

2. How to Negotiate Flexible Work Arrangements in a Post-COVID Workplace with Jennifer Moss

"Remote work and flexible schedules have reshaped their psychological baseline in the workplace. These are no longer seen as perks; they’re now viewed as rights. However, there’s a disconnect. Many leaders approached these changes as transactional–temporary measures to keep operations running. Those same leaders are attempting to roll back some of those freedoms. For employees, this feels deeply personal. It’s not just about losing flexibility—it feels like a loss of autonomy." Read More.

3. How to Set and Achieve Ambitious Growth Goals with George S. Day

"One of the most insightful questions I've encountered is: "Do you know what your growth goal is?" In most companies, many managers cannot articulate their growth goals. In contrast, growth leaders have ambitious revenue, cash flow, and earnings targets and allocate resources accordingly. Without sufficient resources, the organization will lose momentum and fail to achieve its objectives" Read More.

4. How to Redesign Performance Metrics to Create Sustainable Organizations with Christie Smith Ph.D and Kelly Monahan, Ph.D.

"In the 1940s, the average lifespan of an S&P 500 company was 67 years. Today, that number has dropped to just 15 years. While mergers and acquisitions play a role, the reality is that our organizations are not surviving as long as they used to. We’ve over-rotated on appealing to human behavior's rational, economic side, and it’s not working." Read More.

5. The Activist Leader: How to Create Value for Your Business and Society with Jon Miller and Lucy Parker

"Often, the initial response from the business is “Our business model doesn't allow us to address this issue." However, if you're an activist leader, you ask yourself, “How can we approach this problem when our existing business model has hindered us? How can we apply innovation or implement a system-wide solution that allows us to reconsider this problem?" Read More.

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