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Culture & Structure
Building AI Confidence – Can Make the Difference
“If you can create a team of AI super-users it’s likely to benefit your entire company.” An MIT study found that...
Operational Excellence Is More Than Just Efficiency
When we think about operational excellence, our minds often jump straight to efficiency. We find it synonymous with...
How to Fund Your Moonshot Idea
Entrepreneurs seek to create not just a business, rather legacies of innovation that stand out in the years to come....
Seizing Opportunity in a Downturn
Navigating through a tough economy can often feel like being stuck in quicksand for businesses, entrepreneurs, and...
Your Network Is Your Greatest Asset
If we look back at some of the most successful moments in our lives or careers, chances are someone we know played a...
Leadership
What Changes Are You Making in Your 2026 Business Strategy?
When will you start business planning for 2026 and be ready to test your strategies? For many years, I facilitated...
Wellness as a Competitive Advantage
Many organizations still treat wellness as a perk rather than a performance requirement. Yet Wellness at Work...
Revolutions Never Begin with a Slogan
Leaders love bold slogans. They sound powerful, create energy, and give teams something catchy to rally around. But...
The Real Reason Your Team Isn’t Speaking to You
When teams go silent, leaders often jump to the wrong conclusions. They assume employees lack initiative, aren’t...
Communicating in Uncertainty: Leadership Must Show Up and Stay Human
When someone presents — whether it’s a town hall, a board update, a pitch, or a job interview — they’re selling an...
Presentations & Communication
What CEOs Hear Differently
The fact that CEOs are being appointed at older ages has important implications for anyone making a business...
Constraints Make Presentations Better
We often think freedom is the key to creativity. If people can say anything, show anything, and include anything, we...
Keep the Team Engaged
In ice hockey, scoring three goals is called a hat trick. In presentations, the equivalent may be when a team achieves...
Don’t Rely on Unchecked AI to Write Your Presentation
AI can be a useful tool, but it should not be allowed to write your presentation without serious review. The risk is...
Don’t Zoom In Until You Zoom Out
One of the most common mistakes in presentations, resumes, proposals, and business writing is focusing on the content...
Strategy
Structure Note Taking for Better Comprehension and Recall
During the last half of 2023, we shared a number of blogs on how to run meetings more efficiently and effectively. ...
Employee Engagement is No longer Enough; Experience Excellence is the New Standard
Over the past years, the standards for excellence in many arenas have been raised. When it comes to pitching a...
What Gets Measured Gets Managed
Management guru Peter Drucker once said, “[only] what gets measured, gets managed.” It’s for this reason that smart...
Focus On Strategy, Not Tactics
What’s your plan? Are You relying on Strategy or tactics? Whether it’s life in general or business in specific, we...
Flip the Meeting
Ask people to rate how productive meetings are and you tend to get results like I did on Google: “A recent...
Trends
What Impact Will Digital Automation Have on Your Business?
How do you plan for the future of automation? When I’m teaching college students, I ask them to look at the jobs...
Another Stereotype Hits the Dust
Working with Age Brilliantly and teaching the Psychology of Aging, I have the opportunity almost weekly to see current...
The Elongated Life: Life-Long Learning
Many people who read our first blog on the elongated life, noticed that if people are going to plan to live to 100,...
Test or Debug: What’s Your Style?
Frank Wilczek writes a column in the Wall Street Journal’s weekend edition, and one headline grabbed my attention....
The Risks of Automation Displacing Workers
In this blog, as well as my college courses, I’ve been raising the issues of how important it is for young people to...
Other
Are You Committed to Continuous Improvement?
Is continuous improvement a core value for your company? Over a decade ago, I was asked by Vistage Worldwide to launch...
What’s Your Company’s Trust Rating?
Trust is earned. When someone says they “trust” you or your company, they’re telling you that they believe in...
It’s Time for Mentoring Internships
Companies: One reason for the “Great Resignation” is that people, especially “emerging adults” discovered that their...
Can the “Great Resignation” Become the “Great Elevation”? It’s Up to You.
The data is clear: one of the consequences of the Pandemic is that people are leaving their jobs. From my perch, the...
Think Like a BUYER to Design and Deliver Winning Sales Presentations
Do you want to sell your company (or an important product or service) for maximum value and quickly? Then, you need to...