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Zoom’s Return-To-Office Could Doom The Company
Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
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The 5 Coaching Questions Every Leader Needs To Know
Command and control leadership has been replaced with the coaching model in forward-thinking companies, allowing for greater flexibility in creating new results. According to the Harvard Business Review, rapid change has disrupted the traditional top-down management model. “Managers going forward are going to be less technical experts and more social-emotional…
How Designers Can Use AI To Be More Creative and Efficient
It took me 5 minutes to create a beautiful landing page.All I did was type in 1 sentence, change the color scheme, and tweak the text, and it was ready to go…AI is having an impact on every industry. I'm excited about the impact it will have on the design…
Credit Card Debt Hits A Record $1 Trillion As Americans Face Increasing Costs And Financial Insecurity
Credit card debt has topped $1 trillion for the first time on record, according to a recent survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit showed an increase in credit card balances by $45 billion to $1.03 trillion, while total…
Social Entrepreneurship is Key to Connecting to Consumers
For centuries, the traditional driver for bringing a company or business of any size to fruition has been profit. This is the net gain one realizes after accounting for all the effort, costs, labor and time in order to maintain the business.The possibility of generating income far beyond what a…
Pandemic Rules Of Work That Should Never Go Away
There’s a popular notion that it takes three weeks for a practice to become a habit. Though, based on the recent shift we’re seeing in the workplace back to old, pre-pandemic practices, it seems as if three years might not be enough. In March of 2020, the world – and…
2 Signs You Have a ‘Loud Laborer’ Turning the Workplace Toxic
"Quiet quitters," the term for employees who prioritize work-life balance and only do the bare minimum work for which they're paid, had their time to shine — now the spotlight's on "loud laborers."Coined by André Spicer, an organizational behavior professor and dean of Bayes Business School, "loud laborers" care more…
Tennessee Titans Head Coach Mike Vrabel Writes His Leadership Playbook
When the Tennessee Titans take the field for their first preseason football game, they’ll have a new acting head coach on the sideline. On Monday, head coach Mike Vrabel, who is entering his sixth season with the Titans, announced that longtime assistant, Terrell Williams, will temporarily assume head coaching duties…
The Road To Racial Justice Is Also The Path To Prosperity And Progress
If you want progress, work for justice. That’s a paraphrase of Pope Paul VI from 1972 amid the Vietnam War. Then, the sentiment was about peace. More than 50 years later, we’re still talking about justice—but now in the context of economic mobility and the promise of American progress. And…
Teach Me Like I’m 5 with Tim Grover
Hi, I'm Jeff... Serial entrepreneur, speaker, author and ordinary guy. To be honest with you, I didn't plan on becoming an entrepreneur. Around 15 years ago, I got laid off from my sales job. I was alone in my bedroom in my parents' house in San Diego. I had zero…
Too Many Finance Teams Lack Will And Skill AI Wave Demands
Boards have a quiet, growing crisis — understaffed and underskilled finance functions now struggle to meet routine stewardship responsibilities, leaving insufficient resources for digital strategy acceleration and business support. What’s worse is that most CFOs know it and have little appetite for change. A survey of over 1,000 financial executives,…
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