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Stakeholder engagement is one of the more critical aspects of leadership. Stakeholders can be anyone from your frontline employees to suppliers to business partners, and your organization’s relationship with them is dynamic and can change over time.  There are many advantages to identifying and getting to know your stakeholders, and...

April is Autism Awareness Month. The Center for Disease Control defines autism as "a developmental disability that can cause significant social, communication, and behavioral challenges." One in 54 kids are autistic and whether your child is autistic or not, everyone knows someone with an autistic child.   Talking about autism normalizes it....

You rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes that go into making an iconic brand. Often, businesses need to be brought back from the brink of collapse to ultimately thrive. Take the case of Federal Express. It was founded in 1971 with $94 million...

The pandemic forced the former president of the United States Donald Trump to print dollars putting the market’s trust into question. However, many were those who applauded this gesture. The elections for the presidency in the United States and the debate between Trump and the present President of the United...

Like a dangerous hurricane being closely tracked, it’s coming, and we’ve known it.  Demographics.  Average retirement age.  The health of our economy.  They all point to a mass exodus of workforce talent over the next decade and an accompanying talent shortage looming on the horizon. With approximately 10,000 baby boomers...

For C-suite executives, there’s multiple lessons from military service that are applicable to the corporate world. Within business, it’s important to understand a military background does not mean instilling rigidity and barking orders. It’s a command structure built on confidence that allows for individual thought and action that’s necessary for...

The National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) has recently released the inflation-related data for December 2020 and the year. Both the CPI and PPI showed a turnaround trend from falling to rising, which aroused the market's concern about China's inflation. Some clients have also asked ANBOUND's research team questions...

Since the publication of my most recent book, Indispensable: Build and Lead A Company Can’t Live Without, last month, I have had the marvelous opportunity to discuss several of the key questions covered in the book with several fellow thought leaders. This 5-part article series captures the essence of those...

Digital transformation requires modern, digital technology. That may seem to be a truism, but it can be harder to actualize than it seems. The case of FedEx is illuminating. Founder and CEO Fred Smith attended Yale University in the 1960s. In an economics class, he wrote a paper on the...

Choosing to attend things online opens a window to a whole bunch of possibilities you hadn't imagined. Most people were not familiar with the process in the past but as society evolves more and more people turn to the network to fulfill a plethora of their needs. At the same...