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CEO Espresso highlights from 2025: Culture
How does a leader know whether the culture is right? Not through the annual employee survey. Not through the values statement on the wall. But through what happens every day — or doesn’t. The answers from our interviewees were refreshingly concrete. 🔷 Guillaume Dubrule, CEO of Rexel Germany: “Do people dare to confront me with…
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Where do you want to get to?
What the organisation genuinely needs from a negotiation is often the harder conversation. 🔹 What does success look like? 🔹 What trade-offs are we willing to make? 🔹 What must this negotiation actually deliver? That is the kind of conversation that tends to surface real disagreements. Better to do so before the table than across…
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CEO Espresso highlights from 2025: Empathy
13 CEOs. Different industries, different countries, different company sizes. And yet, when asked this one question, their answers sounded strikingly similar: What does a good leader need? — Empathy. 🔹 Hariolf Wenzler, CEO of technology law firm YPOG: “Empathy. And love for people.” 🔹 Jan Garde, founder of The Embassies: “Empathy, strategy, and vision.” 🔹…