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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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How Leading by Example Sets the Pace for Success in Your Business
The greatest leaders are those who lead by example: Roger Penske, founder, chairman and CEO of Penske Automotive Group, has garnered an immense amount of respect by prioritizing regular visits to his dealerships and spending time with his mechanics, discussing how things are going over a cup of coffee.Similarly, Ron…
The Power Of Corporate Stories
My love for international business started with a baby cow. It was the spring of 1996 in rural Gujarat, India. As a young consultant, I was part of a team developing a business plan for satellite television in the country of nearly a billion people, most of whom had access…
What’s Really Holding Women Back At Work
Many people are unaware there is a gender gap in the feedback given to employees at work. Even if male and female employees perform at precisely the same level, research finds managers prioritize kindness more when giving feedback to women than to men, which reduces the usefulness of the feedback…
What Danny Ocean, Rudy And Gandalf Taught Me About Leadership
Ryan Farsai is a career marketer with operational excellence whose creative thinking solves business challenges. Only a handful of people leading organizations ever had formal training. Of course, if you can find the time, there are a million books. Or, you can watch some TV. As marketers, we appeal to…
Four Key Factors To Performance Management
Michael is a human resource consultant with Insperity. He specializes in team building, employee engagement and performance improvement. Performance reviews are a critical part of employee development and of business. By providing effective performance reviews annually, managers can help their teams grow and improve their productivity. However, many managers report…
Company Culture Contradictions Impact Your Collective Mindset
Chief HR Officer, Keck Medicine of USC. Adjunct Professor, USC Marshall School of Business. Keep up with me on my website. What is personality? It's a collective set of an individual's thoughts, actions and emotions based on a wide range of experiences and perspectives they've absorbed, processed and expressed. On…
How To Streamline Your Accounts Receivable Process
Cash is queen in a business, and you need a cash management system. One of the most critical components of cash flow involves managing your accounts receivable. However, managing accounts receivables feels overwhelming, particularly for small businesses. Fortunately, there are tools and methods that companies can use to streamline the…
We Can Fix The Funding Gap: Here’s How
When we talk about achieving gender parity, we have to broaden our scope beyond the obvious gaps, like the pay gap, and consider a lesser known – but equally important – gap: the funding gap. Numbers don’t lie. Currently, only 2% of all VC funding goes to women-led startups, despite…
Keeping Rohingya Refugee Girls In School
Meet Roshida, a Rohingya orphan in Bangladesh who narrowly escaped child marriage to find new hope through education at a learning center supported by Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF. By Kent Page There are 1 million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh today. Chased out of Myanmar by a military-led campaign…
The Pros, The Cons, And The Guardrails Needed
“We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.” One of the first uses of the term “artificial intelligence” came in this 1955 proposal for a summer research project. At that point,…
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