Market Contraction is an opportunity Attitude determines outcome. How businesses emerge after a market contraction depend a lot on how they take on the challenge - fight it with downsizing maneuvers, embrace it as enhancement opportunities, or enact a mix from both camps. Although majority of executives select the pruning...

If the past is any indication of the future, cyberattacks show no signs of slowing down. In 2014, cybercriminals illegally accessed more than one billion personal records – including home and email addresses, medical information and Social Security numbers. That marked a 54 percent increase from the previous year. From T-Mobile...

Unless you are in the gaming industry, you may not realize how Virtual Reality (VR) is taking off. In fact, long thought of as totally futuristic, the technology is becoming increasing accessible, and for consumers looking for VR experiences, there is increasingly more and more content to choose from. For...

Content marketing is a term that we hear so often and for many is both the present and future of marketing. With many organisations now leaving behind traditional methods of marketing, we believe content marketing has become a significant subject of study. As demonstrated in the infographic below from Hyperfine...

When you stop and think about it, what advantage do you have over your competitors? They can purchase the precise equipment that you can. They can copy your sales structure, marketing strategy, and pricing sheet. Once patents expire, they can even duplicate your designs. But the one thing they can’t...

Two dominate variables, which have been linked to successful, sustainable, and innovative businesses are transformational leadership and leadership self-efficacy.  However, nearly 60% of companies face leadership talent shortages (Crainer, 2011).  Leadership coaching is a strategy to address the deficit of effective leaders (Gregory, Beck, & Carr, 2011; Hannafey & Vitulano,...

Let’s assume that you have a pretty good thing going. Your company employs well-educated and highly skilled people. You have good systems and processes for getting things done. Your physical plant and your technology are up to date. Your vision is clear, and you have a strategy to match.  What...

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve experienced exceptional inflight Wi-Fi. Assuming I take an average of 45 flights a year, that’s pretty depressing. Flying is productivity primetime for me; no phone calls, no impromptu meetings, just me, my inbox, and a list of tasks to...

It's surprising that Apple's CEO and the successor to the late Steve Jobs, Tim Cook did not make the cut in the annual list of the top 30 best chief executive officers in the world by the Financial newspaper Barron. While Apple CEO Tim Cook is out, another American Tech...