Margaret Reynolds 
For most business leaders, strategic planning is not their favorite activity. Why not? The biggest reason may be that it hasn’t paid off. And for most companies who complete strategic plans, performance goals are usually not attained. Don’t confuse the performance with the activity! Strategic plans fail for any number of reasons, most of which …
Though smart in any business setting, the principles established by Simon Davis of Australian Uniform Service imperative for a great transaction as the end game. If you’re thinking about selling your business in the next five to ten years, applying these same principles will serve you well.
There were many in my inner circle that thought riding Arabian stallions in the Sahara was a bold move, me included. I have never been to Morocco, to an Islamic country, nor ridden a stallion, let alone through miles and miles of desert. As a leader, have you ever found yourself holding back from a …
Just a few years ago we were learning how to wrap our minds around an almost unlimited access to data. We were wondering what data to capture and how to apply it to decision-making. While there are many who are still figuring this out, technology hasn’t waited for us to catch up. It has moved …
The sharing economy you have been hearing about has a range of meanings. A variety of definitions for this term exist. it includes the gig economy, the on-demand economy, the collaborative economy, and a great deal else. Jeremiah Owyang, The Crowd Companies founder, has noted that participation in the collaborative economy – which nearly doubled …
It is a good time to be investing in business growth and expansion.
If you don’t know who your most profitable customers are, you are taking money out of your pocket. If you DO know who they are, are you focused on growing those customers? Do you know what those customers like about your company? If you haven’t used big data to help in your business anywhere else, …
As marketers, our whole role has changed. Customers don’t need us to give them information about our products or services. They can access anything they want to know at their fingertips. They can do their own research on what is good or bad. Rather, they want to know whether or not they want a relationship …
Have you come across any lists of the jobs that are most endangered by machines? It is a growing one. How will these positive and negative benefits impact your bottom line?
Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, according to population estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. Millennials, born in the years 1981–1997, now number 75.4 million, surpassing the 74.9 million Baby Boomers (born 1946 – 1964). No matter what you think about Millennials they are influencing our products, our rate of technology …
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