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The recent closing of two of the last three Blockbusters in the country should be an eye-opener to all CEOs and business leaders.  Not because it’s a surprise. Personally, I was surprised to hear that even three Blockbusters still survived. Rather, this once-mammoth of a company failed because it didn’t...

Presentations are the most powerful tool that leaders, CEOs and executives have to communicate business ideas, vision and value. Yet the majority of the time they are bland, boring and fail to make any kind of point. Important and urgent messages are hidden in badly designed slides, complex paragraphs of...

As of 2018, with 24.1 million inhabitants, Shanghai is the world's most populous city, according to the data released by the City Mayors Foundation, while Beijing (18.6 million people) ranked number two on the list. China's capital city, Beijing is followed by Karachi, Pakistan (population 18.6 million) and Istanbul, Turkey...

With an average of three days above 90 degrees and six days below freezing, Santa Barbara, California has been named the number 1 best place to live in the United States for the weather in 2018, in a recent ranking by U.S. News & World Report. So congratulations Santa Barbara!...

Ask yourself: how many contracts does my company have? Then ask yourself: within all of those contracts, how many obligations has my company signed up to deliver on? And then finally ask yourself: how are we doing on delivering on those obligations? This is not an abstract thought process. It’s...

Nepotism is a practice that few professionals would endorse. But, if they answered honestly, most people would also admit that nepotism has, on occasion, positively benefited them at some point in their careers.   It’s an issue that is naturally ambivalent, and it’s important to treat it as such.  ...

As leaders of organizations, founders and CEOs get a large share of the credit and the blame for business developments, both good and bad. But the decisions to influence and inspire a company’s vision, values, culture, and direction should not be made in a vacuum. While CEOs certainly play a...

When you speak to customers through photography, they are more inclined to act positively. Here’s why. When life throws a curveball—a sudden injury, a family death, an aging parent who needs support now—it’s good to know there are businesses and organizations that can help. Yet picking the best one under...

As artificial intelligence makes its way into every organization, the biggest fear employees have is that it will replace them. Some pundits have gone as far as to declare that “expertise” in any field is dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. The biggest challenge we all face today...

The United States stood among the top ten countries importing plastic waste in the period 1988 to 2016. It imported 8.49 million metric tons in 28 years, according to research done by University of Georgia researchers. The total trade value of imports in the United States was $5.18 billion which...