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…
We live in an era in which the role of human resources is often challenged: media reports routinely fawn over the ability of artificial intelligence to replicate many "traditional" HR tasks, the move to remote work (and the switch back) has many HR teams struggling to find their place to…
Threads has already garnered over 70 million sign-ups in just two days since its launch, proving wrong the initial doubts about its success. Backed by Meta, Threads has several advantages that other Twitter challengers like BlueSky and Mastodon do not: a large existing user base that can transfer over, minimizing…
Determining the market potential of patents can be a complex task for entrepreneurs. The value of a patent doesn't necessarily equal the investment, and it may indeed be significantly higher or lower.The worth of a patent, or a collection of patents, depends on numerous factors. The operational context of the…
This is the published version of Forbes' Future of Work newsletter, which offers the latest news for chief human resources officers and other talent managers on disruptive technologies, managing the workforce and trends in the remote work debate. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday! Years…
A Financially Valid Approach To Consolidating, Simplifying, and Optimizing the Commercial Technology Portfolio Today, we have reached a tipping point where growing a business involves so much capital investment in technology and analytics it has broken the back of traditional models for planning, allocating, and managing growth investments. In all,…
Marketplaces have become extremely influential in ecommerce over the past three years. Major market players such as Amazon, Alibaba and JD attract millions of users, facilitating massive transactions across a wide range of product categories.They also generate a wealth of data on consumer behavior, preferences and trends. This strong market…
Though Beijing would never use the word, it has effectively admitted failure. Today’s implicit confession is really the second of its kind in the past six months. The first one came at the start of the year when Beijing rescinded the lockdowns and quarantines that were the signal parts of…
This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. Good morning, Twitter users have long complained about the social media network, especially with recent turmoil after Elon Musk’s takeover last year. A dizzying number of competitors have emerged,…
During our many conversations with CFOs, a number of finance leaders have told us that they had bracketed the CFO office as their preferred career destination beginning from Day One of their professional lives. Others, though, have reported that the on-ramp to their finance career-building years showed up as something…
Ph.D., Communication/Relationship Coach, Etiquette Expert, Founder of the Academy of Social Competency. As Mother Teresa famously said, "To work without love is slavery." She was speaking about those who work without satisfaction and pleasure. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report, employee engagement rates are at just 23%,…
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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