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Zoom’s Return-To-Office Could Doom The Company
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…
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Relocating To A Dismal Workplace At Amazon
If you're looking to dishearten your employees and dismantle your office culture, look no further than the recent move made by Amazon. As the world is still grappling with the effects of the pandemic, Amazon has opted for a controversial stance on workplace policy that has left many scratching their…
Amazon Shares New Updates To Accessibility Features For Alexa
This month, Seattle-based Amazon has announced updates to a few accessibility features for the industry’s doyenne of digital assistants in Alexa. The updates encompass three features: Tap to Alexa, Alexa Captions, and the new Automatic Speech Recognition technology. With Tap to Alexa, it’s now possible to use one’s voice to…
Does Your Job Improve The World? If Not, Improve Your Job
Beyond obvious things like a paycheck and insurance benefits, does your work have purpose? For your sake, let’s hope so. According to a Gallup study, there’s a 68% probability that you’re not highly satisfied with your life in general if you’re dissatisfied with work. Conversely, here’s a nearly 80% probability…
How Mattel reinvented Barbie To Become A Global Icon
It's hard to imagine the star of one the biggest movies this summer is a sixty-four-year-old bombshell. Barbie is a grand dame who has demonstrated that old is definitely gold when you don't let it fester. Barbie has had a long journey with many highs and lows. Still, her recent…
Millennials Shifted The Insurance Industry & We Should All Be Grateful
Shawn Meaike, Founder of Family First Life Insurance (FFL), built a multi-million company focused on helping youngish adults avoid financial fallout, and he says it’s disrupting the way insurance will be handled forever. Shawn Meaike’s mom died when he was 16 years old. She was a hardworking, well-intentioned single mother…
Even-Keeled Brian Harman Won The Open Championship By Focusing On That Hole, That Shot, That Putt
The chances are pretty good that unless you’re a golf fanatic you’ve never heard of the guy who just won the world’s oldest and one of its most prestigious tournaments, The Open Championship. This year’s Open was played at the Royal Liverpool Golf Course in England, and the winner was…
Is The Artificial Intelligence We Use Anti-Black?
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a new era that holds a wealth of possibilities. Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT have captured the public’s fascination but with the growth of AI, there is also some cause for concern. The sinister side of AI deserves more interrogation and…
4 Ways to Be Ready When the Supply Chain Heats Up Again
To hear the Federal Reserve Bank of New York tell it, all is finally well in supply chains. The bank's Global Supply Chain Pressure Index has fallen to the lowest level since 2009, during the slumping demand of the Great Recession. But businesses in the United States might not agree…
8 Creative Strategies To Combat Summer Learning Loss For K-12 Students
You’ve likely heard the term learning loss. The phrase is tossed around with not-so-subtle nuances of alarm and stark images of children falling behind. But you may not know exactly what key stakeholder groups in education mean by learning loss. Educators, policymakers, and families discuss summer learning loss, summer slide,…
Why Do We Know So Little About How Asset Managers Are Paid?
Relative to the very detailed data on the compensation of a CEO of a public company, disclosures on compensation of asset managers are sketchy at best. Why have stakeholders not pushed for similarly detailed disclosures for asset managers? I had spent some time in recent weeks thinking about our investor…
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Creative Ways Startups Can Earn Funding in Tough Economic Times
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I Asked AI to Create a Plan for a Fake Company — The Results Blew Me Away, But Not in the Way You Might Think
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