Randstad CEO Karen Fichuk is in her first year on the job.

In Part 1 of my Q&A with Syncsort CEO Josh Rogers, we covered his background and journey to the chief executive chair.

In part one of my interview with Citrix CEO David Henshall, we discussed how he became CEO and his successful, three-pronged approach to transforming the company.

David Henshall became the President and CEO of Citrix in 2017, after working there since 2003 as CFO and then CFO/COO (He served as acting CEO in 2013-2014). He has more than 25 years of technology management experience.

Joshua Feast is CEO of Cogito, which makes software that analyzes phone conversations and provides real-time guidance to help service employees better engage and connect with customers.

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Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently released his book “A Passion for Leadership,” and it has a great lesson in CEO credibility. In it he discusses the situation in Syria.

My most popular blog posts of 2015 covered everything from how to become a better CEO to Google to Donald Trump to unicorns

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I find the presidential race very interesting for what it can teach business leaders.

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I watched an incredible U.S. Open tennis match this past weekend, which I think provided a demonstrable lesson for CEOs.