AI and Leading a Global Organization of Creatives

The CEO of Infopro Learning shares his experiences and insights gained from leading a global organization of creatives and innovators. Sriraj Mallick discusses the impact of AI on leadership, the challenges of leading a global/remote/hybrid work team, and the importance of transparency in driving a high-growth business culture.

Sriraj also shares his own journey of evolving as a leader, learning to draw excellence, engagement and commitment out of others rather than simply driving these through his own personal energy and tenacity. And finally he shares the benefits of productive paranoia, regularly questioning every aspect of one’s business, inspired by Andy Grove’s “Only the Paranoid Survive.”

Leading the Layoff Survivors

Today’s episode is focused on leading a team, a department or an entire organization AFTER a large layoff. I studied more than 8,000 employees who survived a corporate layoff and discovered that, on average, their productivity, work quality and engagement all declined significantly. Retention rates of these employees also declined sharply, so employers were losing more of those they had planned to keep. Continue reading

2023 – Leadership in the Year Ahead

Once again I was NOT invited to the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland this January. So while government leaders were rubbing shoulders with big business, big philanthropy, big media, and other cultural leaders to, as they say, SHAPE global, regional and industry agendas, for the rest of us, I was having conversations with what I like to call WORKING leaders. Continue reading

Leading in a Disrupted World, Rethinking Capitalism, Employee Expectations, Leadership Pressures

We are living and working in disruptive times: technology-driven upheavals, economic recession and inflation and supply chain issues, global pandemics, terrorist attacks, trade wars, culture wars. Employee expectations for their relationship with employers and leaders are evolving. Continue reading