Strategy

Assessment of the situation to devise a game plan for things to come to fruition.

Greed-Fear-Hubris dressed up as STRATEGY that some CEOs just can’t shake easily

Strategy

Many CEOs nod when we talk about focus. “Of course,” they say, “we’re clear about our market.” And then I open their strategy deck. Ten customer segments. Fifteen product variations. A sales team spread across every vertical from healthcare to manufacturing — claiming to do everything for everybody, as if they were Amazon with unlimited […]

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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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The #1 Sign of Intelligence, According to Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Strategy

Jeff Bezos is the CEO of one of the worlds most successful companies – Amazon – who have grown at an astronomical rate, disrupting multiple industries along the way (did you know that Cloud Computing is one of Amazon’s largest and most profitable divisions, making life tough for Tech industry giants like IBM and Microsoft?)

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8 Tips to Increase the ROI of Your Staff Meetings

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Sales, Small Business, Strategy

The COO of my consulting firm years ago used to start staff meetings with 5-15 minutes of small talk. Although he intended to promote socializing, the adverse consequences were late-arrivers, difficulty in focusing on serious discussion at the start of the meeting, and low energy throughout the remainder of the meeting. But those meetings were

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