Years ago, Columbia University football coach turned business coach Bill Campbell taught Pichai to ask himself a pivotal question. Pichai is still asking that question today. As CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai is responsible for making sure his companies continue to move forward, continue to evolve to keep up with the demands of millions of users and customers around the world. That's no easy job. But Pichai once shared with me a single question that helps him to remember his role. He learned the question from his mentor, former Columbia University football coach turned business coach Bill Campbell.…

A private secondary school in Kano, New Oxford Science Academy, Chiranchi, is accepting cryptocurrency as payment for school fees. Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had banned all forms of cryptocurrency transactions earlier in the year. But addressing journalists on Thursday, Sabi’u Musa Haruna, proprietor of the school, said the school management decided to accept cryptocurrencies after consulting parents and guardians. “The decision is aimed at easing the payment of school fees, for the parents,” Haruna said. “We have decided to accept cryptocurrency as school fees because the world today is tilting towards the system. “We believe one-day digital money will…

A new workplace paradigm is emerging. Jim Collins on how to lead your company into a new world of work What does it take for leaders to build companies that remain successful for generations? Uncovering the answers to this question has been the driving force of the Socratic business advisor Jim Collins's career. But, what about now, as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, in a business landscape that is best summed by the word "disruption"? I got on a call recently with Jim to discuss. For more than a quarter century, Jim's been obsessed with studying what makes great…

While some is always good and more is often better, too much is often a recipe for long-term failure. You have a goal: A worthwhile, important, even critical goal. Naturally, you want to complete it as quickly as possible. That's why successful people work smarter. And is why successful people also work harder. But only to a point. A friend of mine has been a superstar salesperson, the kind who outsells her peers by multiples of six to eight, for nearly two decades. I asked her how she has managed -- and, more crucially, maintained -- that level of exceptional…