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It’s happening. America is reopening, and like a sprawling field of bright red poppies the post-Covid consumer is bursting with a renewed self-expression and ready to dance again experts say. Which is great news for the economy and business owners, except for one thing, finding willing workers is tough right...

Part I of a Series: A Much Needed New Approach to Strat Planning. Any leader worth their salt knows, and is motivated by, the legend of the frog. Pre-occupied with immediate matters, he was inattentive to changes heating up around him. It was as incredibly costly mistake. The moral of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Honeymoon is a one-time experience for many people, and they are excited to make it perfect. The destination you will pick to make your dream come true is the second most crucial choice; we guess going with the right person is the most important...However, apart from the correct person and...

Change always creates a feeling of anxiety and stress. We are programmed to stay in what feels safe. It is a biological scientific clue that people avoid change in fear of survival. Therefore it is expected to find problems along the way. Still, in our time this is not taboo....

The answer to such a straight question isn’t as obvious as you might think. In fact, this issue has been hotly debated in management and finance circles for decades now. While plenty of anecdotal evidence suggests that CEOs can make or break a firm – remember how every time Steve...