Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
In recent years, U.S. colleges have seen three watershed moments rock the admissions process. The movement towards test-optionality, the striking down of affirmative action, and the ongoing debates around legacy admissions have all pointed us to a fundamental shift in how universities examine potential new students. How should families adapt…
If you’re an entrepreneur looking for a corporate job, you’ve got company! Business closures spiked up to 5.2% in 2022 (from 2.9% in 2019), the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor shows. Economic uncertainty, inflation, reduced consumer spending are hurting entrepreneurs. Exploring corporate opportunities makes sense: Skills forged in entrepreneurial ventures –…
By Lisa Chau and Joseph Hammond Aruna Ravichandran, a senior executive at CISCO, recently shared her insights on the future of work, marketing, and AI in an exclusive interview with Zenger News. Ravichandran, who has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, said that she has been most…
It's convenient to criticize Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. Zuckerberg himself lacks the charisma that often accompanies public figures, and Facebook has been criticized worldwide as a tool for mass distraction by nearly every political party in every country. Meta, it seems, was Zuckerberg's attempt to create a lasting, positive impact…
In today’s job market, a LinkedIn job posting can garner hundreds, if not thousands, of applications, creating a needle-in-haystack scenario for hiring teams. Talent acquisition teams are now toying a new strategy to reduce time in the search for talent: computer games. From Tetris-style spatial reasoning tests and puzzle problem-solving…
Have you ever awakened in the night from a restless sleep, heart pounding? You can just reflect on your latest dream for clues as to why you feel so anxious. Or you could think back on the past few days' events, looking for a reason for your fretfulness. While you…
B2B marketing is continuously evolving, the rules to the game have changed, and it is essential that you tap in to the current way of doing things if you want to succeed in this industry. At present, influencer and creator marketing is the way forward. If you want to get…
Long-term contracts are both useful and dangerous. They are useful when money is spent by one party based on a commitment to buy from another party. They are dangerous because the economics of the deal may turn so that one party benefits greatly from reneging on the deal. Understanding the…
What matters most to modern customers? Convenience and efficiency. Instead of waiting to get answers or working through cumbersome phone systems, customers want self-service options to quickly find information, solve issues, and move on with their lives. Self-service has seen incredible growth in recent years, and this is just the…
Whether you planned it this way or you simply missed the deadline for Round One MBA applications, you may be relieved that you now have months before Round Two applications are due for most of the M7 business schools. You may be thinking that you’ll go through the same steps…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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