Start Speaking the Language of Business and Know Your Numbers
When you plan to pitch a learning and development investment or decision to someone with the power to sign cheques, you may be unsure what to say. If so, ask…
Opportunities Abound When You Capture the Hearts and Minds of Employees
“When this place gets its head around what it takes to win, it’s an amazing thing that happens. Workers are thinking: ‘I’ve got to do my job better so I…
Failing Quickly Is the Secret to Succeeding Sooner
In the wonderful world of startups, quite possibly the most exciting thing is developing your MVP, or Minimum Viable Product. You have this grand idea in your head and you’re…
6 Refresher Courses Every Employee Should Take Each Year
Businesses face a variety of challenges managing employees. With so many different personalities in one place, conflicts and issues will inevitably arise. Often one of the best ways to minimize…
The Attitude Test: How to Determine If You Should Simplify Your Business
Do your firm’s attitudes — its policies and culture — make it more disposed to pursue price-simplifying or proposition-simplifying? The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. …
Put All Eggs in One Basket?
It’s imperative I draw your attention to the baskets. It’s important that no matter what business we are in, how big or small our business is, that we don’t religiously…
When False Positives Waste Tech Team’s Time
C-level executives are “completely in a dark” about cyber-attacks opposite their companies, nonetheless IT professionals suggested their organizations have been victims of modernized attacks during a past 12 months. Many…
9 Ways IT Can Ruin Its Relationship With The Business
Aligning IT and business units sounds fantastic in theory. But when the rubber meets the road, IT leaders face unique challenges as they strive to engage and collaborate with…
What eBay’s Machine Learning Advances Can Teach IT Professionals
EBay has been gathering data and employing machine learning to connect more buyers to sellers and increase the trustworthiness of transactions. The use-cases are worth exploring for any IT professional…
Branding On Budget: How Entrepreneurs Can Still Make It Work
Branding On Budget: How Entrepreneurs Can Still Make It Work For branding on a budget, there are many ways how entrepreneurs can save money while building a strong…
People Now Spend Half Their Online Time in Apps. Here’s Why.
Platform businesses have reached a major milestone. Smartphone apps are now 50% of all U.S. digital media time spent. The top 15 mobile apps that make up the lionshare of…
6 Ways to Find the Perfect Time to Start Your Business
They’re called a “perfect storms” for a reason–the unlikely, uncommon combination of market conditions that permanently change business as we know it. It’s no surprise that so many fear them.…
Here’s Why Recognition Is The Key To Employee Engagement
Everyone wants to go home feeling like they did a good job, that they were valued, that their input mattered, and it was appreciated. However, according to a Gallup, only…
What No One Tells You About Email Marketing
If you’re looking to grow your email list, there is no shortage of advice available. The problem is, if you implement all of it (or even just a good chunk…
Lessons from the Strategy Crisis at Netflix
Netflix would seem to be on a roll. The world’s largest online entertainment distribution business has seen its streaming revenues grow from US$1.2 billion in 2007 to $6.8 billion today.…
Innovation and Organizational Culture
Recently, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has published key findings of their latest “Most Innovative Companies 2014” survey. Beside the annual ranking, headed by the top three companies Apple, Google and Samsung, some insightful…
6 Cases When You Should Burn a Bridge or Two
In this world, relationships are everything. At work, at home, with friends, with lovers, with clients, with bosses, with the person who pulls your morning shot of espresso, everything comes…
The 4 Opt-in Forms All Ecommerce Websites Must Have
Running an ecommerce business isn’t easy: You’re physically disconnected from the customer, making it a monstrous struggle to establish trust for that first purchase. An even greater struggle is getting that first-time…
To Attract Top Young Talent Make Your Business an Employee Success Platform
Many businesses are looking to attract recent college graduates but the ones that succeed at hiring and retaining the best talent provide a platform for professional and leadership development, even as…
How CIOs Wield Influence in a C-Suite
The change of CIOs and other IT care execs is flourishing within a infancy of midmarket companies, according to a new consult from Deloitte. The concomitant report, patrician “Technology in…