Secrets Of Successful CIOs
The CIOs of major organisations are facing difficult challenges, having to manage IT organisations that are very different from those that have traditionally existed, in a challenging economic environment. Senior…
5 Ways To Find Out What Drives Your Employees
How much influence do you have on your employee’s motivation? You’re the one cutting the checks, that should be enough to keep them working their hardest, right? While motivation is…
5 Communication Habits That Are Making You Look Nervous
I’ve already talked at length about various body language cues that could be undermining your confidence. And, it’s true — often, what we’re not saying speaks even louder than our…
8 Things Employees Definitely Talk About (Even Though Their Bosses Think They Don’t)
You try to do everything right. You actually follow an open door policy. You regularly ask for feedback. You regularly encourage your employees to tell you what they really think.…
Best Tools For A Premium Social Marketing Strategy On A Small-Business Budget
It’s getting harder and harder for small-and-medium-sized businesses to keep up with big brands, but a few tools are democratizing marketing so that businesses can compete in a social-first world…
5 Proven Ways To Conquer Your Fear Of Public Speaking
The vast majority of the population experiences some form of public speaking anxiety, whether it’s night-before insomnia or breaking out into a sweat when stepping up to the podium. These…
10 Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want To Quit
It’s hard enough to attract and hold on to good employees–but to attract and hold on to the best employees is even harder. Occasionally they leave because of an opportunity they…
What Keeps Dubai Government Employees Happy?
What Keeps Dubai Government Employees Happy? Employees above the age of 56 were the happiest at their job, but those between 26-35 seemed to be the least happy. BY Hana…
Are You A Risk Taker?
The final part of this risk profile series looks at “risk flexible” companies – those organizations led by entrepreneurs who are willing to take significant risks knowing that they may…
1 Important Thing All Businesses Can Learn From The American Revolution
Most Americans will know the incredible story of Paul Revere. For the rest of the world, it may be the first time. But whether you know this story or not,…
Brand Rehab: The 3-Step Plan To Recover When Mishaps Happen
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, things just go wrong. Normally, you can say, “Sorry!”, and move on. But what happens when a brand makes a mistake? If the problem is…
Digitally Disrupting the Life Insurance Industry
by Mari Anixter A Conversation with Yaron Ben-Zvi The Life Insurance industry has not quite met the rapidly expanding customer expectations of the digital world. A combination of ‘expensive to…
Reversing Your Company’s Shrinking Lifespan
by Ludwig Melik We are all living longer than we used to but the companies we work for are not. Corporate life expectancy is at a serious decline. Our life…
Key Innovation Lessons from the Nuclear Industry
by Michael Whitaker Innovation is inherently high-risk. Cultivating the traits of a high reliability organization within your innovation program can improve your success rate. While in my previous post we…
CIO sells scalability of cloud to transform Ohio housing authority
Selling scalability of cloud So his No. 1 task shifted. Instead of focusing on new initiatives first, Patterson sought to rip out the old on-premises servers and systems and replace…
How to Start Innovation with an Idea
Google, currently a company with a market capitalization of $ 500 billion, started as just an idea. In 1995, the idea for “downloading the entire web onto computers” came to…
How to Enter a Market You Can Win
Doug Grimsted’s software development company Aginity has an analytics hub that powers the entire enterprise. Aginity makes software that revolutionizes the way companies create, manage and deploy analytics, allowing companies to establish analytics as a…
3 Pieces of Life Advice From Kevin Hart
In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Alex Berman compiles three life lessons you can learn from comedian, actor and producer Kevin Hart. Nothing lasts forever. Having a realistic point of view…
8 Habits of Wildly Successful People
You know what they say about opinions — everybody has one. If you want to see that truth in action, just Google “characteristics of successful people.” Some of the results will…
Customers Don’t Mind Waiting for a Superior Product
Every famous beverage – from Dom Perignon to Coors beer — is laced with great stories. Champagne lovers know that a Benedictine monk and cellar master named Dom Perignon was the “father of…