Leadership What are People Management Skills? How Important are They at the Workplace? Are you looking to improve your people management skills and galvanize your team toward better outcomes? You are not alone. The abilities required to lead…
Leadership The Making of a Visionary CEO: Emerson Xu on Leadership, Innovation, and SMU’s CEO Programme In the fast-evolving world of urban air mobility, leadership, strategic vision, and innovation are key to success. Emerson Xu, Head of China at Volocopter GmbH,…
Career These Top 5 Transferable Skills are a Must-Have on Your Resume In the 2015 Robert De Niro blockbuster, The Intern, a 70-year-old man joins a booming fashion start-up as an intern. Though he has little knowledge of…
Leadership How to Become a CTO: 5 Steps to Get to Tech Leadership Position McKinsey’s global survey has revealed that for 73 percent of respondents from high-performing companies, their most senior tech leaders are heavily involved in shaping the company’s…
Leadership What is Leadership? What are the 10 Main Types of Leadership? Leadership has taken a new dimension in today’s ever-changing work environment. According to a Gartner survey, 90% of HR leaders recognize that success in the modern…
Operations Management How to Gain Functional Mastery with the NTU COO Programme Just as a skilled programmer must conquer coding principles—modularity, inheritance, debugging—to build stable applications efficiently, a modern Chief Operating Officer (COO) must gain functional mastery…
Leadership Why the SMU CEO Programme is Ideal for Emerging Leaders In 2023, Wee Ee Cheong of UOB claimed the title of Singapore’s highest-paid CEO with a total compensation of S$15.9 million (1)—an impressive figure that…
Leadership How the SMU CFO Programme Can Help You Become a Tech-Forward Leader Once confined to managing balance sheets and optimising budgets, the Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO) role has evolved profoundly. Today, CFOs must master a broader spectrum…
Leadership NUS Business School’s Chief Strategy Officer Programme: Reviews from Participants on Strategic Leadership In today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape, the role of a Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) has become increasingly vital. The ability to…
Leadership How to Become the CEO of Your Organization Remember the story of Shantanu Narayen, the celebrated CEO of Adobe, under whose leadership the company executed some of its most remarkable strategic moves, including…
Business Management Leading Through Crisis: The COO’s Playbook Imagine a global organisation grappling with a sudden supply chain breakdown due to unforeseen geopolitical tensions. Revenue drops sharply, stakeholders panic, and employees look toward…
Business Management A Comprehensive Guide on How to Become a CEO: Key Skills and Approaches Wouldn’t it be great if there were a manual one could follow on how to become a CEO? The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is among…