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Thirty-six years ago, a young Afghan girl peered through haunting green eyes from the cover of National Geographic’s June issue. She was Sharbat Gula, orphaned during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and in 1984 she, her siblings, grandmother, and scores of other refugees had fled on foot toward Pakistan. The...

You've almost certainly heard the phrase "he/she is a natural leader" to describe someone — maybe even someone in your peer group or company. Being a natural leader often seems to have a kind of "know it when you see it" quality — and some believe that leaders are born,...

Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. retired as a professional basketball player at age 36. Meanwhile, he was honored many times in his career. In 1996 he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. After retiring he focused on entrepreneurship and more specifically on his company, named...

The key code to bending reality is feeling what arises. The subconscious needs to be cleared of its contractions in order to access the zero-point field, which gives rise to physical reality. You’ll probably experience the most resistance to this code. This is normal and why most everyone you know...

Learning new software can be stressful for employees and employers alike. However, digital transformation is an important endeavor for many companies. Leaders can achieve employee buy-in by addressing these four common causes of hesitation. A recent report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) suggests global spending on technologies and services related to digital...

New business is expensive and time-consuming to bring onboard, no matter what industry you’re in. For enterprise technology, the average sales cycle for a six-figure-plus deal can take six to twelve months, and even more if your markets include the federal government, which is notoriously slow-moving. Similarly, if your offering...

On March 23, 2020, the  S&P 500 bottomed out. It dropped 34% from the mid-February 2020 high to the bottom. In fact, such a drop has never been seen before in that intensity. While the S&P 500 dropped 50% in 2008 at the start of the Great Recession, this drop...

Before stepping up to the podium, facing the camera, or firing off an email, there is one essential element every successful communicator must have: a well-thought-out message. And when communicating in a crisis situation, the importance of getting your message right is magnified tenfold. Messaging is everything. It is the...

In April 2020, just one month into the U.S stay-at-home order, U.S divorce rates increased by 34 percent - with 20 percent of those couples having been married for five months or less. According to a statistic shared by Health Street, 4.5 million marriages ending in divorce are due to...

CIOs should not have to choose between business risk and business growth. As your business grows, as attacks grow and attack sophistication increases, it is time to protect what matters most, without constraining the business. How can you get your organization to migrate to a more secure access policy that...