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Here's the Secret to Finding Agile and Effective Leadership for Your Business!

In today's fast-paced and dynamic business environment, companies of all sizes need agile and effective leadership C-level experts to stay competitive. However, it’s easier said than done, especially when it comes to filling a position with an immense number of responsibilities. Getting a full-time C-suite professional onboard is a time-consuming task and sometimes it takes months to find the perfect fit. The main challenge arises henceforth. The vacant senior management seat often creates a vacuum in the work operations and paralyzes the company’s aim of achieving its goals and visions. This in turn creates a ruckus in the organizational structure and an urgency to fill the position is created. Often, to bridge the time gap, executive professionals are brought on board with whom expectations and deliverables don’t match on both ends. The result being predictable – a significant loss of resources, in terms of time, costs, and effort. One way to tackle the problem can by tapping

Flexi Engagement – An Emerging Trend

Flexible engagement can be a great way to change up your career and give you a new sense of motivation - but is it the right move for you? It's essential to understand what flexi engagement means to you specifically. The fact is that for different people depending on the stage of life they are in, this varies. For some it could mean freedom in their physical space, for others it could be creative freedom. For others just the fact that no one restricts you or your thought process. According to the google definition - A flexible work arrangement (FWA) empowers an employee to choose what time they begin to work, where to work, and when they will stop working. The idea is to help manage work-life balance, and benefits of flexibility can include reduced employee stress and increased overall job satisfaction. However, flexi-engagement is also when experts work on a project-based approach. They give their time and specialized skills to different projects at different p

Gig CXO experts – push your growth trajectory

A Gig CXO offers his/her services to several companies in Gig/ assignment-based roles. Corporations are looking for specialists to consider a job done quickly, by an expert and most significantly, at reduced costs as the Gig CXO concept slowly gains traction. Corporations are beginning to prefer a specialist over a full-time role in some industries like Fintech, EdTech, construction, digitization, and regulatory approvals. Young companies, start-ups, and consulting firms are now hiring experts-on-demand, or Gig CXO professionals, who are typically in their late 40s, extremely experienced, and highly skilled. During the pandemic, when many tech companies opted to expand their management upwards, the idea of a gig CXO or temporary CXO quickly gained traction. A Gig CXO is typically in his second professional innings with extensive professional experience, doesn't get bogged down by titles, and works as a pro fessional coordinator or consultant. Chief executives have differin

Over and Above Mainstream Commercial Success – The Perspective of Gig CXO

Time bound responsibility Immense authority entails great responsibility. This is because followers are far more inclined to trust a leader who has exhibited certain abilities to lead them and get through obstacles whenever and wherever they may emerge. In the circumstance, it is expected of a leader to be the most proficient at solving issues swiftly. Introducing a role of an expert on demand can benefit organizations much, and Gig CXOs will benefit from the freedom, adaptability, exposure, and authority that comes with it. The challenging element is managing people and time. Time is always a constraint on an organization since without it, all of its procedures would be rendered useless while an interim leader has to enhance processes & innovate within a short period of time whilst maintaining the current cycle of an organization. Understand organizations and people As hectic as it may sound, an interim leader, above it all is expected to manage resources well in order to

Rerouting Success with Interim Leadership

Each day, we are placed in a box of yet another personality type, yet another social class, yet another body type, and so on. It’s almost as if people have stopped believing that there is a possibility of being it all or being anything else other than what has been established. Like there is an adage that a misfit becomes a failure or a rebel. "Jack of all trades but a master of none", is all we remember from the quote, and we forget that it is still better than a master of one. While other divisions may develop discreetly, the most evident is segregation based on professional success, which is defined by society only on the basis of materialism and other superficial factors. There are also several additional factors, such as the age at which a person should be successful, the type of assets a person should own, the years of sustenance and advancement, and so on. But, at such a young age, is mainstream commercial success the only success that matters? Success Is a By-

WINNING IN THE INTERIM

Picture this scenario if you can: you are running a relatively young company in a fiercely competitive marketplace where the norm is feverish change. Suddenly, in the midst of a firestorm, your CEO leaves you or even worse you are having to ask him to go. Where does that leave your organization? To even mature organizations, such sudden exits can be deeply unsettling. For smaller businesses it may be a death blow. Take Twitter for instance which, even before Elon Musk, has not been a stranger to leadership upheavals. When CEO Dick Colosto left the engine room of the microblogging giant on a short 2-week notice, he left a potentially disruptive vacuum at the top. Only, it’s founder Jack Dorsey by taking over as “interim CEO” ensured that Twitter absorbed the shock without so much as a twitch of a muscle. From behemoths like Twitter to small startups all across the world, Interim CEOs or CXO’s have helped steer businesses through the rough waters of turbulent leadership change.

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