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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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15 Coaches Share Lessons They Learned From Standout Group Sessions
Coaches cherish those extraordinary times when an organizational or team coaching session they are running has a profound impact in both the participants’ lives and the coach’s approach to future group engagements. Such transformative group experiences stand out not only for being highly gratifying, but also because they provide valuable…
5 SWAT Team Practices That Every Leader Should Know
The question of what creates elite performance in a team is a frequent topic for leadership discussions. The strategies and approaches for creating elite performance are myriad, as are the number of "leadership gurus" who, for a price, will teach you their foolproof method for forging a high-performing team.Yet, despite…
This Is Not Just Another Sales Tool
If you're ready to improve your win rate or just stuck, try this one. The easiest position to take in any business case is the status quo. That's a lesson salespeople learn often, and often the hard way. Identifying who in your pipeline is an actual target versus who’s going…
When It Comes To Recruiting, Imagination Beats Precision
CEO at Cielo. Global talent acquisition partner, helping organizations illuminate talent for a brighter future. In the middle of the Great Resignation, researchers from Harvard University and Accenture found that companies were rejecting millions of qualified candidates despite being desperate for workers. What was the problem? While the report uncovered…
What Do Airports And Emergency Rooms Have In Common?
Caryn Seidman Becker impressed me in twenty minutes. Knowing what I’ve now learned about her absolute commitment to productivity, it is no surprise to me that her charm was as disarming as it was efficient. Seidman Becker is the CEO of CLEAR, a company that many of us know from…
Women’s Health Ads Remain Censored; CIJ Files FTC Complaint in Reply
“What is VMS?” During the 2023 Super Bowl, Astellas Pharma aired an ad featuring actress actress Carmella Riley asking women that very question. The 30-second spot (which likely cost around seven million dollars) helped educate women about vasomotor symptoms, commonly known as VMS - hot flashes and night sweats that…
Considering whether now is the right time to buy a home
There is a lot of interest in the housing market these days. Following a tremendous run-up in real estate prices during the COVID pandemic and a steep increase in mortgage interest rates in 2022, many predicted (or are still predicting) that a housing crash is inevitable. That prediction has yet…
Why Business Leaders Are Pulling The Plug On DEI
A shaky, uncertain economy isn’t the real reason. Nevertheless, it’s being used as the excuse for getting rid of chief diversity officers; significantly reducing DEI budgets and staffs; and pivoting to raceless, all-lives-matter-style workplace culture initiatives. It’s happening across industries, most intensively in larger corporations. But why? And why now,…
How To Avoid The Too Nice Trap Without Being Selfish
Agreeableness is lauded for a good reason; it reduces friction, and things move faster when people say “yes.” People who are interested in others and are helpful tend to be liked and receive social rewards such as praise. But helpfulness can become selflessness and leave people depleted and resentful, despite…
Why Overinvesting In Generative AI Could Be A Trap
Generative AI is the hottest property in corporate innovation. It offers such extraordinary potential for transformation that no company feels it can afford to be left out. The pace of investment is so frenzied that AI chip maker Nvidia has seen its revenues explode pushing its valuation above $1 trillion.…
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