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The news about the economy has been mostly positive over the last year. Unemployment hit its lowest rate in 50 years as we continued to recover from the 2008 Recession, and payroll employment grew by 130,000 in August. Yet despite this, the threat of the next recession is real with...

One lesson I’ve learned in two decades as a performance coach is that you don’t become your best without learning and growing from setbacks. It is because of these setbacks, not in spite of them, that we discover the courage, the commitment and the perspective required to perform at our...

Posting random things on your favourite social platforms doesn’t make you a social media marketer. While social media is a great marketing tool, it, like other great tools, can be misused and cut a business right down to size. Instead of meeting your goals (engagement, conversions or brand awareness), you...

Making the move from CTO to CEO was a daunting experience for me: after all, I had spent a large part of my career working behind the scenes. Now, I was going to be the face of a company, taking on new responsibilities that encapsulated a whole other realm of...

India is in the midst of one of its worst and most serious water crisis. Newspaper dailies are churning reports filled with images of hundreds of people waiting for water tankers or queued in front of a single tap which is incapable of fulfilling the demand. Videos of women rappelling...

Remote working seems to be all the buzz. Apparently, 70% of professionals work from home at least once a week. Similarly, 77% of people work more productively and 68% of millennials would consider a company more if they offered remote working. It seems to make sense: technology, connectivity, and culture...

During our research for The Power of Peers, former Vistage CEO Rafael Pastor shared that CEOs have plenty of people to whom they are already accountable, including employees, customers, board members, etc.  As a result, he said most CEOs are loath to invite even more accountability than they already have....

China’s central bank, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) mulls a shake-up of the mobile payment sector, which can have a huge impact. Those who have visited China most probably noticed immediately that everybody uses a QR code on their mobile phone for any kind of payment. In China, this mobile...

The pace of change in business will never be as slow as it is today. It's become increasingly difficult for organizations to keep up: The last thing you need is the added task of keeping agencies up to speed. Yet when it comes to brand experience design, that’s exactly what...

I was motivated to start Fresh n’ Lean, the organic, chef-cooked meal delivery service, after my father faced a precarious health situation. He was regularly eating heavily processed foods out of convenience, and his health spiraled. We didn’t know if he was going to be around in six months. He...