Julie Cottineau, Founder & CEO, BrandTwist Whether you are a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the founder of a start up with big plans, looking at branding best practices from successful brands such as Kool-Aid, Avon, Apple, and Virgin can yield some valuable lessons that can then be applied to your brand for big impact. […]
Simon Slade, CEO & Co-founder, SaleHoo Hiring staff can be one of the greatest challenges for a business owner because expanding your team with great talent is a constant necessity. The trend of remote work is a response to that challenge. GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com suggests that 50% of the US workforce holds a job that is compatible with partially
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Daniel Wagner & Dante Disparte, Authors, Global Risk Agility and Decision Making As risks have evolved from being phenomenological occurrences in the natural world, the twenty-first century is in many ways the era of man-made risk and man-stoked fires. From cyber risk–which is increasingly mutating to impact all facets of the modern economy–to terrorism, climate change,
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Jessica Kriegel, Ed.D., Author, Unfairly Labeled: How Your Workplace Can Benefit From Ditching Generational Stereotypes Generational labelling is meaningless and counter-productive in the workplace. Not only does such labelling create unfair biases and lead to inappropriate reactions, but in fact, there is no clear evidence to support the messages that the stereotypes convey. Yet CEOs, managers
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Brian W. Sullivan, co-author of SANDLER ENTERPRISE SELLING: Winning, Growing, And Retaining Major Accounts In selling, we all work with logical groupings of our accounts, both clients and prospects, to add clarity to our sales and service efforts. For example, we group by industry, account size, geography, and commercial vs. public sector. We create these
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Dennis C. Miller, Speaker. Author. Leadership Coach. CEO Life has taught me a lot of things that I could never have learned in a classroom. Especially since I never excelled in the classroom as a kid. Rising above challenges is a key part of life and a major ingredient in becoming a successful leader. Every time I failed
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Jeff Van Gulick, Senior Vice President, Commercial Lines Practice Leader, HUB International Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. But, these transactions can also be the impetus for legal recourse – a significant liability for the company’s directors and officers. Mergers and
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Ronald J. Recardo, Managing Partner, The Catalyst Consulting Group LLC Many Presidents and CEO’s have come to the realization that they cannot achieve their growth objective by relying only on their internal growth engines (e.g. new product development, 5 P’s of marketing). Unfortunately, there have been a plethora of studies that have concluded the success rates of
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Marga Hoek, CEO, Sustainable Business Association Every entrepreneur should want to improve the world. Those that do not, and especially businesses that consume and damage our social, environmental, and financial assets, are contributors to the economic, environmental and social problems that we are struggling with today. This recognition makes it clear that it is the business
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Sean Rudner, President & CEO, StockPKG A common goal amongst nearly all businesses is the desire to grow, yet many plateau and can’t seem to become bigger and better like they’d hoped. Why? It’s easy to become set in your ways and comfortable with current processes and procedures, but the difference between plateauing and growing is operating
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