Author: Julie Ritzer Ross

4 Effective Sleep Tips for CEOs

Think you can lead your company on just 3 or 4 hours of sleep each night? Think again. “There’s a very strong correlation between restfulness and leadership,” Jessica Payne, associate professor and director of the Sleep Stress and Memory Lab at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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Lessons Learned from the Wells Fargo Debacle

CEOs, like many others, are doubtless shaking their heads over Wells Fargo’s announcement last week that it would pay $5 million to customers and $185 million in penalties for allegedly having signed customers up for more than 2 million deposit and credit card accounts.

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