Incorporating Gartner's 2023 Workplace Trends into Your Strategy The workplace has been upended in the last few years. With immediate impacts from COVID-19 finally beginning to recede into the background, experts are watching closely to see which trends take center stage over the coming year. All work environments - whether virtual or in-person, large or [...]
Three Tips for Building Your Corporate Give Back Strategy More than 50 years ago, economist Milton Friedman made a compelling case in the New York Times that the only social responsibility a company had was to increase its profits. In Friedman’s eyes, the business was responsible to its shareholders. Shareholders could determine what they did [...]
If Your Customer is King, Are They Getting the Royal Treatment? In a recent survey of nearly 2,000 executives, nearly half said they consider customer experience their top priority over the next five years. These executives understand something paramount: in an era of digital commerce, near on-demand delivery, nonstop disruptions and the ability to share [...]
Strategies to Strengthen Your Business During an Economic Downturn It’s hard to avoid the headlines predicting hard economic times ahead. A recent survey from The Conference Board, touting the C-suite’s focus on a potential downturn, was widely covered, with one ominous headline telling us It's almost impossible to find a CEO who isn't bracing for [...]
Decentralization: A New Era of Business Leadership If your organization has thrived - or even just survived - over the last two years, it is likely because you have learned to embrace two fundamental headwinds: disruption and reinvention. No matter your industry, the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have changed the way companies operate. Those changes [...]
Navigating the Three Phases of Strategic Change First - The letting go One might consider people to be the hardest thing to change, and corporate culture is often overlooked. It often seems the fundamental DNA of the business will always resist change to process and policy. Culture has a way of pulling the entire enterprise [...]
Need a Boost in Productivity? Break Down Your Silos Digital transformation remains alive and well across most companies, as adaption and agility have become the norm in order to stay competitive. To successfully function at the pace required today, a company has to do more than rely on technology or processes. Creating the right [...]
The Strategy Behind When to Take a Stand Blame it on the rise of social media, more socially conscious consumers, or perhaps even the 24-hour news cycle, but never has there been more pressure on companies to weigh in on controversial topics trending in the mainstream consciousness. These topics are often centered around real-time crises—everything [...]
Struggling through the Great Resignation? Prioritizing Diversity Can Help Two years into the pandemic and we’re only beginning to wrap our minds around the impact it has had on the workforce. Global lockdowns and a new, more virtual world spurred ‘The Great Resignation,’ with individuals from all walks of life evaluating their priorities and preferences [...]
We can all be Strategic Leaders - Characteristics of Successful Ones Visionary or Operator? Following a recent 2021 study by PwC on Harvard Business Review, they recognized some “key characteristics” that were desirable to be a future successful leader. In the past (and perhaps still today), it was common that in the significant majority of [...]
