How CEOs Can Improve Sales Leadership
Savvy and forward-thinking CEOs recognize that good leadership is about more than just rallying the troops and getting people to show up on time. The best CEOs are able to…
Having Trouble Hiring? Here’s How to Get the Talent You Need
If you’ve tried to hire for any high-skilled position lately you already know it’s a seller’s market out there. Employees with proven skills in technology–and most other areas–are getting harder…
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader: How to Change the Course of Your Career
Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader: How to Change the Course of Your Career Turning into a leader doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and strategy to…
Inventors are Not Created Equal
Innovators are often difficult to recognize. They don’t wear signs or fit a particular personality profile. Sometimes they quietly go through the day while drawing little attention to themselves…
Growth – That Crazy Talk
Growth is a natural source of power, a wellspring or volcano. Businesses, like nature, live a lifecycle. Organizations are as alive as a person; yet, most businesses do not…
Why Privileged Users Are a Major Security Risk
It’s no secret that organizations face a growing array of cyber-security threats. What’s more, the potential impact from malware is a mounting concern. What is often overlooked in today’s…
How Digital Assets Strain IT Security Efforts
A notable number of IT security professionals said a corporate mindset that current measures are “good enough” presents a major obstacle in the pursuit of new security initiatives, according to…
How Businesses Benefit From Self-Service Analytics
CIOs and their tech teams could better support line-of-business units by enabling what’s called “self-service” data analytics, according to a recent survey from Alteryx and Harvard Business Review. The accompanying…
17 Tricks To Get More Things Done During the Work Day
Sometimes, we wish there were more hours in the day. Unfortunately, we can’t control time. What we can control is our productivity. Being cautious with how we spend our time…
7 Easy Steps for Launching a Venture that Will Fail
Apparently, failure is becoming a badge of honor in the field of entrepreneurship. We can learn a lot from our mistakes, but also we can learn a great deal from…
Actually, There Are 5 Different Ways Something Can Go Viral
When something goes viral it can seem like magic. Sure, it’s a great whatever it is, but there are tons of other great products and posts out there that only…
5 Progressive Ways to Reshape Your Content Marketing Strategy in 2017
Content marketing is a fluid field that requires brands to constantly tune into evolving trends and shifting landscapes. And while the industry is changing on a day-to-day basis, it’s much…
Startups Studios: accelerating startups innovation
Building startups is notoriously hard. Often, entrepreneurs have to spend too much time on scraping together the basics. A few people who can hack together an initial product. Some…
Innovation Starts with a Question
In a world where it is extremely difficult to sustain any competitive advantage you build, it is important to constantly innovate and come up with new ideas, products and…
How to Build an Effective Culture
In Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal credits his focus on transforming military culture as key to turning the tide in Iraq. He writes that “the role of the leader…
Agreeable vs. Disagreeable CEO: Who Do You Want at the Helm?
Bottom Line: An executive’s character traits are linked to certain patterns in a firm’s investments, strategy decisions, and overall performance, a new study finds. CEOs have wide-ranging influence over their…
Labor Chips Away at Capital
The narratives that influence our economy have a great deal of momentum. Giant, irreversible, tectonic shifts are transforming the landscape: urbanization, globalization, information technology, the decline of print media, mobile…
How CIOs Can Improve Critical QA and Testing
Organizations are facing an assortment of quality assurance and testing challenges throughout a broad range of key, business-driving assessment areas, according to a recent survey from Capgemini/Sogeti and Hewlett Packard…
Why Cyber-Security Is Central to Your Reputation
Every year, we spend some-more income and time combating a dim army of cyberspace: state-sponsored operatives, orderly crime rings and super-hackers armed with black-ops tech. The conflict methods mutate…
The Better Skills Test: How to Determine If You Should Price or Proposition Simplify Your Business
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. In order to succeed as a simplifier, your firm needs to have the right skill set for your…