By Daniel Burrus – Futurist Expert and Speaker on Business Strategy, Technology, Innovations & Their Impact: Given the recent release of the documentary series The Last Dance, I found this example to be more prevalent than ever. Basketball great Michael Jordan once famously stated that he had missed more than…
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Mentoring: From The Ballpark To The Boardroom And Beyond
By John Baldoni – Internationally Recognized Leadership Expert, Speaker and Author “Jeffrey [Hammonds] learned from Eric Davis, and Eric Davis learned from Dave Parker, and Dave Parker learned from Willie Stargell and Willie Stargell learned from Roberto Clemente. You see where the gravy train is going?” That is Dmitri…
4 Ways To Help Employees Deal With Change
By Adrian Gostick – Acclaimed Author and Speaker on Leadership, Anxiety in the Workplace and Employee Engagement In times of transformation—when an organization needs its people to buy-in—that is when employee trust is typically the most challenged. People are often distracted by how a change will affect them,…
Uncertainty: A Key to Success
By Steve Rizzo – Best-Selling Author and Motivational Speaker You can strategically plan your personal and professional life. You can make careful choices and take what you think are the appropriate actions to fulfill the ideal life you want. But there is absolutely no way of knowing…
Are You Just Making the Donuts?
By Erik Qualman – Top Technology Speaker, #1 Bestselling Author & Futurist In the 1980’s, Dunkin’ Donuts produced a television commercial so successful that the company decided to make over 100 slightly different versions. People would get up in the morning and humorously repeat its popular tagline to…
We’re Running Out of Time
By Sallie Krawcheck – Elite Wall Street Executive, CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest We all know that time has changed since this all started. Days drag, but weeks go by unseen. Fall is nearly here; winter is coming. But then, for so many of us, the day is packed…
Finding your COVID Altitude
By Kaihan Krippendorff – Futurist, Strategy and Innovation Expert & Founder of Outthinker When an airplane hits turbulence, it seeks a new altitude. One without turbulence. Even better, one with tailwinds. Now, COVID has certainly injected turbulence rarely seen in history. But is this turbulence universal? Is every sector…
How to Make 2020 the Year You Upped Your Leadership Game
By Krister Ungerböck – Global CEO, Entrepreneur and Speaker on the Language of Leadership What makes a good leader? It’s a question that has rarely been as relevant as in 2020, which might well be named “The Year of the Frustration.” The past months have brought…
Content Marketing in 2020
By Chris Brogan – Author and Speaker on Social Media Marketing & Publishing Content marketing gets a bad rap because a lot of it is so badly wrapped. What happens in the land of marketing and business (b2b marketing or B2C – it doesn’t matter) is that someone takes…
The Psychology of Peak Performance
By Scott Welle – Motivational Speaker, Best-selling Author and Strategist on Peak Performance Basically, how do you get the best out of you and your team during this virtual time? I’m not going to pretend that it’s easy, but why do some people show up…