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“Frank conversations with Dubai's leaders”

 

Podcast host, Dr. Corrie Block, a leading GCC strategist, has casual fireside panel conversations with experts on driving innovation, leadership, culture within organizations and business strategy. Corrie's guests are top Entrepreneurs, CEOs and Board Members based in Dubai.

 

Business is Personal.

Dec 20, 2018

On Episode 5 of Business is Personal, we discuss how to mitigate the 'Dubai gap' - the gap between the title on someone's business card and the actual skills and capabilities of the individual. Are HR departments equipped to deal with the skills gap? When recruiting for senior positions, how should we carry out...


Dec 3, 2018

Gone are the days of seeking CVs, or handing out CVs. There’s just too many out there, and they are unreliable, and often uninformative.

We hire based on relationships now, so companies need to hunt down and court the leaders that they want to add to their teams.

Likewise, key leaders looking for their next step need...


Nov 19, 2018

Two of my Executive Leadership clients won CEO awards this year. It’s a privilege to work with truly exceptional CEOs.

It was so much fun to sit with quality leaders and discuss exceptional leadership. CEOs in the GCC need to be fast and flexible.

One of the keys to success that we discuss in this podcast is the need...


Nov 5, 2018

The digital capture of reviews and reactions, searches and likes, has opened us up to a new world where commentary is a commodity, to be generated, harvested, bundled, marketed, and sold to the highest bidder.

We ourselves are no longer just the market, but also the product. Each consumer, knowingly or not, is now an...


Oct 17, 2018

There is an inherent and often unarticulated way in which we choose our colleagues, employees, clients, suppliers, and collaborators based on shared values.

It isn’t enough anymore to determine whether or not someone has the competencies required to partner with us, and it is no longer sufficient for us to check the...