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Doing Well by Doing Good and Other Lessons Learned from 30 Years as CEO

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Self Governance, Strategy

For more than 30 years, Lynne Katzmann has led Juniper Communities, a public company and leader in seniors housing, by prioritizing doing well by doing good. Profits matter (she has investors, after all), but so does providing high-quality care and innovative services for her residents. It’s a “walking the talk” mindset that attracts professionals with […]

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4 Tips For Steering Your Business Through Tough Times

Business Ops., Management, Strategy

Alyssa Rapp, Author Leadership & Life Hacks: Insights from a Mom, Wife, Entrepreneur & Executive. Good times come with this certainty: They never last. For businesses, that means formidable challenges (a weak economy, new competition, a sea change in the marketplace) are always just around the corner, and unprepared business leaders face the potential for disaster.

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How to Avoid Innovation Theater

Strategy

Dr. Kaihan Krippendorff, Author Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs [Columbia Business School Publishing, October 22, 2019] Many people assume that implementing innovative ideas will automatically make a company more successful. But while being innovative may generate admiration, press coverage, and a top spot on various “most innovative companies” lists, it does not necessarily

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Using the right tools is crucial to laying the groundwork for your business’ future. Here’s what to look for.

Management, Strategy

Vadim Katcherovski, Founder and CEO of Easy Projects. Growth is paramount for any CEO. Yet scaling successfully and minimizing growing pains requires forward-thinking preparation and long-term planning – and tools that facilitate this. Unfortunately, many companies often use short-sighted solutions for immediate problems, without thinking of the bigger picture. In fact, poor project performance has led to

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D&O Insurance and Why Your Startup Needs It

Finance, Self Governance

Matt Miller, Author, D&O Insurance and Why Your Startup Needs It Directors & Officers (D&O) insurance is designed to protect companies and their directors and officers from lawsuits that could possibly arise as a result of actions or decisions of their board members and other leaders representing the company. Breach of fiduciary duty, and failure to

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3 Reasons Why the Ship Won’t Move When You Turn the Wheel

Management

Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics You’ve got the title, the corner office and the perks. But most of all, you’ve got a realistic picture of the job: to be an executive or senior leader is to be the person with whom the buck stops. Small, isolated problems arise and are solved all over the place,

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Corporate America’s Most Costly Habit

Management

Elise Keith, Co-founder, Lucid Meetings & Author, Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization There is one activity in every company that: Impacts every employee, Consumes 30% of employees’ time on average, and up to 80% of an executives’ day, Drives the success or failure of all collaborative work. This is an

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Spotting and Supporting Change Makers

Management

Amy Radin, Author, The Change Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation In Any Company Hard work, persistence, passion, and resourcefulness propel change makers forward. But so does the ability to spot and support other changemakers to join forces with you – to attract them to your organization, and then to help them succeed. You

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How Uncommon Partners May Be the Secret to Breakthrough Innovation

Leadership, Management

Kyle Nel, Nathan Furr and Thomas Zoega Ramsoy, Authors, Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future Guiding an organization through transformation is one of the hardest things that leaders are called on to do. Among many variables, transformation requires both seeing new business opportunities, and then taking meaningful steps to capture them. But

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The Unlikely Role of Enterprise Software in Defining Post-Merger Culture

Management

Colin Earl, CEO, Agiloft Mergers and acquisitions are for risk-takers, particularly when you consider that 83% of them fail to boost shareholder returns.[1] Despite these odds, M&A continues to appeal to companies of all stripes as offering the most direct path to achieving long-term strategy. The enduring siren song of M&A has generated troves of studies

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