Executive Insider

Goals are essential to every individual and organization. However, setting those goals is meaningless unless you pay attention to the course you’re traveling. We all start at Point A en route to our Goals and Objectives (Point C). Unfortunately, far too often, individuals and organizations get off track and get...

The strategist's dilemma: According to Forbes, the amount of data created in the last two years is more than 90 percent of the world's total data combined. Furthermore, IDC Global DataSphere forecasted in May 2020 that more than 59 zettabytes of data would be created, captured, copied and consumed in...

The Consumer Product Goods (CPG) industry has undergone several significant shifts over the last few years. The role of digital in the CPG business has evolved and continues to, customer preferences have changed drastically, and compliance imperatives have driven the industry towards stricter, better, and customer-centric standards. In the last...

After three years and more than two hundred episodes featuring interviews with some of the world’s most influential thinkers, it’s a fair statement that I’ve learned a thing or two. Thirty, to be precise. I am privileged to host FranklinCovey’s On Leadership With Scott Miller podcast, now the world’s largest...

As a CEO, you’ve got a lot on your plate. You’re dealing with busy, unpredictable schedules, late hours, ample travel time and many conflicting responsibilities vying for your attention. While this demanding and energizing lifestyle might be one of the things you love most about your job, it also takes...

Over the course of the past three weeks, the International Olympic Committee and this year’s host Japan have doled out hundreds of bronze, silver, and gold medals – symbols given to athletes for reaching the height of human achievement in whatever sport they’ve dedicated years to being the best. Long...

The way in which organizations innovate, and places where they are based to do this, have changed profoundly over the last decade due to two overall trends – convergence and disruption. Companies have moved away from closed innovation models to more open approaches in which organizations and places work in...

In my recent book Win, Win, Win: The 18 Inclusion-isms You Need to Become a Disability Confident Employer ( Win, Win, Win Book) I provide 18 tactics anyone can apply to become an inclusive, welcoming leader. As helpful as that is, the hiring challenges small businesses are facing immediately after Covid and beyond...

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to speak up, but didn’t? No matter what, I’m sure there’s been a moment in life where your in-action, or having somebody else brush you off, made you feel small. Maybe you got a promotion, but were too afraid you’d...

Great leaders regularly discuss diversity and inclusion while taking progressive action to create such a culture in the workplace. A newer trend adds neurodiversity into the discussion, in cases of both identified and unidentified neurodiverse employees. Social awkwardness, previously attributed to the neurodiverse community, is the new norm in this...