Author: Pascal El Murr

The land of cubicles is witnessing a return in 2021 after the mass exodus that it had witnessed in 2020. Nonetheless, we can all sense that it is a shy return. Reasons behind this half in half out the door situation are various. With the rise of the Delta variant and all the uncertainty around...

Congratulations to the new tennis champion who has taken the world by storm, Emma Raducanu. Congratulations to the woman who has broken the barriers of stigmatized diversity. Congratulations to the success she portrays to other dreamers around the world. However, just like any success story, several sharks will surround this star to take credit. The...

after hearing everything our team had to say about the “new back to normal”, we realized how important it is to discuss the answers we got with our Senior Partner, Camil El Khoury. We also decided to ask him a few specific questions about his journey and how he was able to keep a certain sense...

“A friend of mine, a very highly skilled professional in her own field got hired as a head of a department in a very fast growing company; as soon as she got there she met the CEO and was introduced to her duties. She went back to her office and was lost; she started asking...

“But the results in my “Wheel of Life” are excellent! Besides, the hardest thing for a successful leader is to receive personal feedback? Isn’t it?” This is part of a conversation I had  with a very well positioned, self made CEO, and it got me thinking, how do people perceive feedback? Why is it sensitive...

A Yale experiment found that male and female scientists that were trained on objective hiring still preferred hiring and paying men more. A UChicago and MIT experiment found that applicants with white sounding names received 50% more job interview requests. A Study by Harvard business review found that if there is only one woman and...

One of the most challenging transitions for leaders is the shift from doing to leading. As admirable as it may be for a leader to keep on being involved in multiple tasks, responsibilities become more complex, and consequently the transition from doing to leading becomes more and more crucial. Managers frequently find themselves overloaded with tasks. Best practices...