By Curt Steinhorst – Speaker on Strategic Communications & Digital Distractions Each week, businesses announce their policies and plans to return workers to offices, with no clear consensus. Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said people are tired of working from home and want to get back to work, but …
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What 2021 Requires from Leaders
By Denise Lee Yohn – Leading Authority and Speaker on Building Exceptional Brands Leadership is critical in 2021 if we want our organizations to withstand the challenges of the pandemic that will continue well into the new year. We can’t afford to hope things will…
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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…
Why Failure is the Secret to Innovation
By Duncan Wardle – Former Walt Disney Executive & Speaker on Innovation and Creativity What do fireworks and cornflakes have in common? Let me tell you; they were both invented by mistake — each a botched attempt to do something completely different. One day, the Kellogg brothers tried…
To Survive 2020, Reverse Everything You Believe About Your Industry
By Lisa Bodell, Global Leader on Culture Change Focused on Simplification and Innovation Despite the enormous challenges of this year, I’ve drawn inspiration from the industrial evolutions that are happening in real time. From the medical profession’s pivot…
Look to the Future for Help Working Through what Bothers You
By Josh Linkner, Tech Entrepreneur, CEO, and Best-Selling Author In stressful times, it’s easy to get derailed by matters that might be viewed as trivial under ordinary circumstances. A colleague shows up late to a Zoom call, the client changes her mind mid-stream, the boss unleashes an unnecessary…
First Things First: Recognizing & Adapting to Change
By Whitney Johnson, Author and Co-Founder, with Clayton Christensen, Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund One day, a few weeks ago, I had a plan. I often do. I had a plan, but the plan had to change. They often do. My intent was to…
Agility & Anticipation – A Vital Partnership
By Daniel Burrus, Futurist Expert and Speaker on Business Strategy, Technology, Innovations & Their Impact While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. During the Coronavirus pandemic,…