Margaret Reynolds By now you are probably tired of hearing about Covid and how it impacts business. Unfortunately, it is a topic we cannot escape. But what if we take a different slant for a moment and think about how it is permanently changing our overall culture, not just our business culture directly? As people absorb the …
There are several key questions I keep hearing from my clients: How will remote working impact us long term? Is what I am experiencing in sales “normal”? Should I take advantage and hire talent now while it is available? In its most recent issue Inc. magazine surveyed its newest list of Inc. 5000 (fastest growing …
Business Growth is Often Stalled by Doing What We Have Always Done We spend our lives focusing on the what—the practices, and policies that we have painstakingly put in place. We do what we do because we are supposed to do it. Our parents raised us to, or our teachers taught us to, or our …
Tracking progress should foreshadow the future not just report the past. The world just changed. The data you have is now at least partially obsolete, and the goals set earlier this year may not still be relevant. Tracking progress should reflect your current position and foreshadow the future, not just report the past. Especially now. …
Every year a few adventurous spirits join me in a faraway land to ride indigenous horses in their ancestral terrain. This year we headed to Egypt to ride Arabians around the pyramids and through the desert. While there, we had an adventure all right but not the one we were hoping for. Yes, Covid-19 interrupted …
Many of us are doing things we never thought possible. I spoke with a client this morning who said “We thought working remotely was something we would never do. Now we are good at it.” Leaders are seeing that what once served as constraint, our own belief in our ability to execute, is no longer …
As the world starts to peek out under the virus curtain and look around, we have some tough decisions to make. Are we going back to the way things were before we began this odyssey? Chances are, not exactly. Some key questions to ask are: Should I bring everyone back into the office? Some companies …
The Covid-19 future will require all of us to innovate. You are doing it already—changing how you work and communicate. Leaders are busy looking to the future, asking how they can be responsive and position their companies for success in the months and years to come. Our future won’t look like the past. Trends have …
Learn to discern reliable data from the rest. Avoid the drama, stay current on things and do the basic math. There’s a lot of data out there, is it correct? I think we can all agree that there are too many sources and not enough facts in our current environment. You are all aware that …
We are NOT fine. In the last few weeks I have been reaching out via phone, email, and zoom to talk to dozens of CEOs who are trying to figure out what to do. Like most conversations, it starts with “How are you?”. And the response is “I am fine, thanks.”. But you are not. …
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