The monumental battle over remote work is heating up this summer as more traditionalist business leaders are demanding that their employees come to the office much or all of the time. Google maps workers, asked to come back to the office full-time recently, ...
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With a tightening labor market and evolving employee expectations, the working world has experienced a dramatic change in the last couple of years. This change is pushing the boundaries of the traditional top-down management model, shifting more power and ...
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The following is adapted from The Thought Leader Formula.
As a thought leader, speaking engagements can be a major revenue source for you. If you’re like most people and thought of public speaking scares you to death, there’s a foolproof way to combat ...
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Rumors are flying about
Apple's emerging bundling strategy. Apparently they are getting ready to launch several tiers of new bundled subscriptions, incorporating different combos of the following:
Apple Music,
Apple TV+,
Apple Arcade,
Apple News+ , iCloud ...
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You might think that with a market capitalization now of over $1.1 trillion,
Apple owns the vast majority of the smartphone market. Logical, but wrong. In fact,
Apple had under 25 percent of the total handhelds shipped for most of 2019 and was actually the ...
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In 1985, one of the biggest executive showdowns in history became public when
Apple’s board of directors was forced to take sides between then-CEO John Sculley or founder Steve Jobs. Most of us know the outcome: Jobs was ousted, while Sculley continued to ...
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Attracting, retaining, and optimizing talent — and doing it successfully — is the new leadership call to action.
The quality and potential of your talent determines the productive capacity of your organization and will very likely correlate ...
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In a world of increasing scandal, with institutions playing fast and loose with the truth and people slapping "fake news" labels on content with increasing frequency, I predict success in 2018 will come from telling the truth. Always.
Every day it seems ...
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In a world where all of your customers carry a super computer in their pockets in the form of a smartphone that they use for virtually all communications needs, all companies must readdress their customer-facing strategy. There is a digital tsunami coming.
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Your success and that of your business depends upon understanding and articulating what makes you better than everyone else.
In the final season of Mad Men, Don Draper is asked by the CEO of a small computer services firm if advertising might help his ...
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Conventional wisdom says that profit is, well, the bottom line. Under this way of thinking, the most important task for any corporate leader is to create and increase profits.
This focus on profit as the be-all and end-all is why companies downsize rather ...
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I told you about my miserable hotel check-in experience last week. If you missed it, find it here. But it got me thinking…
Would I have paid, say an extra $50-$100 in advance to check-in early, avoid the lines in their entirety, and walk into the hotel ...
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