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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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How Silence Can Be Used as a Tactic for Motivating Teams and Negotiating Deals
The world is getting louder. There is enough noise to make silence uncomfortable, and it affects our interactions. In conversation, loudness is perceived as powerful. In meetings, opinions are broadcast at high volumes. But there is a strong case for staying quiet, especially at work, and especially for business leaders…
Business Leaders Must Do Their Bit To Restore The Middle Class
Two events thousands of miles apart this week might look to have little in common. But in fact they are part of a continuum that could be the start of a change in how the industrialised world — especially the U.S. and the U.K. — conducts business, particularly as it…
There are worrisome implications when executives sit on several boards at once
An anti-ESG activist group recently complained that large U.S. companies are controlled by a “liberal cartel” of powerful corporate directors who sit on several boards simultaneously and “instill woke ideology that goes against their fiduciary duties.” Even without the hyperbolic language, the line of attack is laughable. Consider recent and…
How to Filter Good Advice From The Bad
With so much information available, someone could easily think that building a successful startup should be easy. In reality, such an overwhelming amount of advice makes it more challenging. CB Insights found that 70% of upstart tech companies fail within 20 months, which I suspect — may be (in part)…
IBM Extends FinOps And Cloud Mgmt Capabilities With Apptio Acquisition
Most enterprises operate on hybrid-cloud IT infrastructure. The value of the cloud is real, providing consumption-based resources that give IT organizations the flexibility needed to respond quickly to shifting business requirements. The downside of the cloud is that costs can be unpredictable and quickly get out of hand. This is…
Forget ‘quiet quitting’. Now frustrated employees are ‘loud quitting’—and the resignation trend is even worse for business leaders
You’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting”—the trend that saw employees doing the bare minimum of work and silently checking out of jobs they didn’t enjoy but financially needed. Now, employees are doing the complete opposite and “loud quitting”, according to Gallup’s 2023 State of the Global Workplace Report. As the…
Steve Chang of Copa Vida on Building Organic Community in Coffee Shops
Steve Chang, owner of Copa Vida, has a unique perspective on building community through coffee shops. He believes that a cafe like Copa Vida should serve as a gathering space; where a community can organically form by allowing people to connect on their own accord.The coffee shop chain CEO emphasizes…
The Tragedy Of Today’s Supreme Court Ruling
Asserting that today’s landmark affirmative action case was decided by her six conservative Supreme Court colleagues with “let them eat cake obliviousness”, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ripped into the majority’s failure to recognize the “gulf-sized, race-based gaps that exist with respect to the health, wealth, and well-being of American citizens”.…
A startup mandated that workers take off at least 20 days a year. Employee satisfaction soared
It’s officially PTO season. With it has come a reignited conversation about the merits of unlimited paid time off. Last week, Kyle Lacy, director of people ops at revenue operations company Go Nimbly, took to LinkedIn to give his take on the policy. Go Nimbly, he wrote in a now-viral post,…
Why Businesses Need to Diversify Everything Right Now
I have been praising diversification for years. It has proven to be one of the most effective approaches to managing a business that I have come across through my tenure as a CEO and Managing Partner.There are three things a business owner can diversify: the team, the client base and…
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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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5 Crucial Challenges Startups Must Overcome
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…