Clik here to view.
How To Pivot Your Company Without Alienating Dedicated Customers
Today organizations seem to pivot and change business models every year. But does this tech-fueled injection of pace make good sense in the long run? If done correctly, yes. But ultimately, it’s up to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
People Will Judge You Based On Their Own Insecurities
You almost certainly know at least one infuriating person who is what I'll call, for want of a better term, a life-choice evangelist. As the label suggests, LCEs are driven by the anxious insistence...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To Stop Your Brain From Making Big Mistakes
Slow down and think. What you think you see is just the craziness in your head making you panic. And panic makes you stupid.You do things you’ll regret later. You break relationships and burn...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jobseekers Can Use The Myers-Briggs Personality Test To Find The Right Career
Work can be challenging, but finding an organization that fits your personality and long-term career goals could make the road to success a little more bearable.How well do you work in certain cultures...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boy, Sheryl Sandberg Isn't Kidding About People Hating Successful Women ...
The COO of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, has published a new book called "Lean In."The book offers career advice for women in a world that is still dominated by men.Sandberg argues that women need to be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To Stop Burning Bridges With Clients And Friends
One of the biggest mistakes any business leader can make is thinking too short term about business relationships — about not investing not enough time and passion in“people”.All to easily, you can...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PROFESSOR: 'JC Penney Serves No Compelling Customer Purpose'
JC Penney is a company in free fall.It recently had one of the worst retail quarters in history with a staggering 32 percent drop in same store sales, and may lose out on an essential agreement with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 'Super Seven' Is Key To Coming Up With Big Ideas
Brainstorming sessions are usually a big waste of time—unless you know how to do it right. To truly inspire brilliant new ideas, leaders need to take a more disciplined approach. Bryan Mattimore,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ex-Lehman Exec Is Living Proof Of The Need For Work-Life Balance
Former Lehman CFO Erin Callan wrote a chilling Op-Ed for The New York Times, Is There Life After Work?, where she says she regrets putting work before family, friends and, ultimately, herself.She's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Your Life Has Become 'A Networked Social Operating System'
Social media tools for work coupled with mobile devices and easy access to the Internet have changed the working world.Some researchers have come up with a new term for this phenomenon: "the social...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Erin Callan Wouldn't Have Been Happy No Matter What She Did With Her Career
Erin Callan, the former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers, offers this contribution to the work-life balance discussion:I don't have children, so it might seem that my story lacks relevance to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CLAY CHRISTENSEN: Jeff Bezos, Scott Cook, And Steve Jobs Got Disruption Right
It's been some 16 years since Clay Christensen published "The Innovator's Dilemma" and brought the concept of disruptive innovation to the wider world. Despite that, many companies and executives still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harvard Lecturer Explains How To Get Employees To Think Like Entrepreneurs
An organization’s most valuable assets are its employees. When workers are happy and motivated, they’re more likely to perform at the highest levels.The most strategic way to create this type of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I Learned Every Secret Of Leadership By Playing In A Rock Band
Back in my mid-20s, I moved to California to enroll in business school at The Leland Stanford Junior University. (Some of my East Coast buddies wondered out loud how I intended to earn an MBA from what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Billionaire Chinese Blogger Who Wants To Buy America's Most Expensive...
Chinese property tycoon Zhang Xin is making a play for the historic General Motors building in New York, just as she's coming under scrutiny at home and makes at least one brazen call for China to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Facebook's Electronics Vending Machines Say A Lot About Its Culture
I'd heard tell that Facebook's IT department had scattered vending machines filled with headphones, power cords, and sundry other electronics across the campus.But it was not until I was walking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Samsung Is Destroying Its Competition - Find Out How At IGNITION Mobile
Samsung is about to announce it latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, this week. By all accounts, the Galaxy phone line is disrupting the mobile device industry and challenging Apple for the top spot....
View ArticleClik here to view.
This CEO Learned How To Transform A Company's Culture To Look Like Google Or...
In early 2010, LivePerson, an online customer service company, was doing great: It was growing rapidly, had the leading product in its area, reached around $100 million in revenues, and had around 400...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MBAs Can't Afford To End Their Math Education With Calculus
From financial transactions to consumer purchases to political polling, a torrent of data now flows into every area of the global economy. Yet that river of information is meaningless without a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Way A Company Runs Meetings Explains Its Internal Culture
Your initial, gut reaction when you read the word below has the potential to tell me a lot about you, and possibly a lot about the organization you work for. Ready?MeetingsWhat happened when you read...
View Article