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…
Innovation
Nothing is More Important than your Culture
By Sterling Hawkins – Leading Speaker on Breakthrough Innovation, Tech Entrepreneur and Leadership Expert What Indiana Jones Teaches Us About Business I work in innovation so the car driving analogy is an obvious one. We’ve all heard it a million times: something like, stop looking in your…
The Key to Building a Successful Remote Organization? Data.
By Mike Walsh | Speaker on the Change, Technology and Innovation The Covid-19 crisis forced many businesses to suddenly adapt to having an entirely remote workforce. And once we all got past the novel challenges of family interruptions, #funnycatvideos, and virtual etiquette, a more complex problem raised…
The Top 10 Speakers on Sales
It’s no secret that sales are the backbone to any and every organization. Sales generate revenue and regardless of how well any of the other departments are performing, or how innovative your teams are, if your organization does not have a strong sales force, your manufacturing techniques, products or services…
The Power of Positivity
By Scott McKain – Dynamic Speaker on Innovation, Sales & Customer Service If you’re like me, you often find yourself asking, “Where does the time go?” It was all the way back in 1994 that my awesome friend, Antonia Barnes Boyle, and I co-wrote my first book: Just…
Leaders: Remove Your Bulletproof Vests
By Chester Elton & Adrian Gostick Speakers on Organizational Culture, Employee Engagement and Leadership We were chatting with a CEO last week about the crisis that is 2020 and how it has affected employees’ mental health. He confided, “As leaders, it’s time to remove our…
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…
4 Keys to Capture the Window of Opportunity
By Ryan Estis, Speaks on Business Performance, Leadership and Sales More than 33.5 million (1 in 5 American workers) have filed for unemployment over the past seven weeks as states move to reopen, a number we haven’t seen since the Great Depression. It hasn’t been easy,…
After COVID-19: Where Do We Go From Here?
By Mike Walsh, Author of Futuretainment and Speaker on Change, Technology and Innovation. Over the last few months, leaders have had a chance to respond to the impact of COVID-19. Plans for contactless service, process automation, remote work, Cloud infrastructure, and virtualization have been accelerated and implemented. While…
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…