Andy Lothian, CEO, Insights Learning and Development According to today’s business experts, the less tangible qualities of ‘soft skills’ do not make them less important. In a recent article Seth Godin argues the term ‘soft’ makes it easy for “us to move onto something seemingly more urgent.” He suggests we call them ‘real skills’, not ‘soft’. In […]
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Randy Salzman, Co-author, Design Thinking for the Greater Good: Innovation in the Social Sector In researching design thinking for a decade, one interesting outcome is the counter-intuitive observation that upper management may offer less hindrance to innovation than mid-level management and peer groups. The “easy” reason large organizations often lose their edge, after all, is that
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Andrew Wells and Kathy Chiang, Monetizing Your Data: A Guide to Turning Data into Profit-Driving Strategies and Solutions How intelligent is your company about your customer? Do you know enough about them in order to create a personalized customer experience? Understanding your customer through deep intelligence enables you to drive the right actions and experiences that
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Denise R. Green Founder, Brilliance Inc. Your people are suffering — but they won’t tell you until it’s too late. Recently, a CEO received public praise when he tweeted his appreciation and approval to an employee who announced to her team that she’d be taking two days of sick leave for her mental health. While the news
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David Zimmerman, CEO, LC Technology International A recent headline about the exposure of voter records by a contractor working with the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned heads due to the size of the breach (nearly 200 million potential voters) and how such information was stored in an unsecured cloud account. The records could be browsed without
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Chris Schafer & Brent Carter, Authors, Intrepid Professionals: How Principles from the Military Mindset Build Extraordinary Leaders, Teams, and Businesses In a world where adaptation to chaos is a consistent requirement, leaders need an intrepid mindset – a mode of seeing, thinking, and acting that is hyper-vigilant. There are few challenging areas that need intrepid mindsets
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Felena Hanson, Author, Flight Club – Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business My calendar is jam-packed – It’s not unusual for me to work 12 hour days. As an entrepreneur, there is always something I “should” or “could” be doing. This isn’t a complaint but a declaration that my life is full,
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Hector Castillo, Founder & CEO, Noysi “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy, but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.” – Plato. Music permeates my earliest memories and has always been the unique lense through which I view the world. From the age of
Rory J. Clark, Creator and Innovator, Focus Selling It may be called the “summer slump,” but it’s really a revenue slump. It happens every summer. It is the phenomenon called the “summer slump.”While vacations can be fun, it’s also a time of decreased productivity and missing creativity. Inaccurate forecasts and missed revenue targets are the norm. To
Andy Sargent, Pack Up Your Troubles: A “Kitbag of Leadership Skills for Busy Managers” Being a CEO may not be the loneliest job in the world but it certainly competes. When I was advising the Chairman and CEO of a multi national trading corporation, he once said rather wistfully: “You know what the trouble is: everyone
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