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Success is becoming harder in a competitive and uncertain world: Today's business environment is a cocktail of competition and uncertainty. High performance is harder to come by, as indicated by a Forbes study of 400 top global executives, where 90% stated they do not believe the current environment is friendly to...

How can you successfully start a business or help a failing business survive? Business is the process of overcoming challenges on the pathway toward progress, and that is what makes business exciting, interesting, and rewarding. Starting a new company or trying to turn around a failed company is a big...

The secret to a truly great organization is the values and beliefs that exist at its core. Since the founding of Akadeum Life Sciences in 2014, the standards we uphold are to diligently help people solve problems in their lab work around separating cells, nucleic acids, or proteins from biological...

…or, when it’s right to be wrong, and when it’s wrong to be right When it’s Right to be Wrong Sunday lunch was a really important family meal for my parents – especially my father. He cherished the opportunity to connect and share with whoever could find time and space...

If businesses are genuinely interested in developing a customer-centric culture, heightening customer care, and providing outstanding customer service, then how they treat customers when they complain is core.    Yet in a 2020 National Customer Rage Study, researchers reported that, when complaining, 58 percent of customers got no or limited satisfaction due...

Businesses looking to expand their products and services must be willing to explore and implement new ways to put themselves in front of potential customers. With more than 6.5 billion people owning a smartphone, mobile applications provide an impactful alternative that can accelerate growth.  A 2019 report showed that people...

The other day I bumped into an old friend from college at the airport. It was such a pleasant surprise to meet him after almost 20 years. Though we had texted occasionally, we never really had a chance to meet up. It was such a refreshing thing to happen as...

The ability to transform ourselves and to persuade and influence others depends on the subtleties of effective communication and the essential fact that thinking impacts emotions, which in turn drive behavior. In order to effectively move someone to action, we must understand how the mind filters information.  One thing lies...

As a leader, when you have a lot on your plate – whether it’s work or family responsibilities– it can feel like things are spiraling out of control.  In my own life, one of the most challenging periods was when I was caring for a deathly ill family member. What...

Cormac Russell and John McKnight believe in the power of communities to create shared well-being — and their new book The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods, is an illuminating look at how to make it happen. But it’s principles can be applied to any small group,...