What boards should keep top of mind as they refresh strategies to be future-ready. In brief Management and the board should define “long-term” and develop a strategy that is focused not on where the organization “is going” but where it “can go.” It is essential for an organization’s talent strategy...

Creativity is the most distinguishable quality for every leader in every domain. Creative leaders display distinctly different behaviors, values, and characteristics from traditional management, and they get exponential results, inspire creativity in others, build productive teams, and drive successful businesses. They embrace originality and make unique connections between disparate universes...

A few weeks ago, in helping some C-suite executives rethink their corporate strategy, I asked, “What are your gross margins?” Crickets. I then asked, “What makes your company unique?” Crickets again. They aren’t alone. Through my work as an author, consultant and member of the teaching team for several leadership...

The real nature of business is growing. Either you’re growing or you’re going backwards. Growth is one of the more necessary components of success in business. It’s not necessarily that you only grow by premises, but perhaps, more importantly, your business growth can be various measures of such as in...

As senior executives and business leaders, commitment is about remaining steadfast and unwavering in your goals and objectives. Whether this is galvanizing a team to achieve a vision or staying focused on hitting a sales target, commitment is about never giving up on a desired outcome. The greatest leaders understand...

When you think of an organization and the processes, the buck usually stops on the CEO’s table. Recent happenings, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, have made this glaring. Only organizations that were primed for eventualities and whose CEOs have resilience as one of their important traits to handle tumultuous situations survived....

Are you milking your ‘milch cow’? Isn’t it a tactical skill with you involved in distribution, ignoring silent risks? Are you and your milch cow with a loyal distribution system hedging on it clandestinely? But how long?? The expose has just begun! In a utilitarian world nothing stays sacred. Do...

Since the beginning, fraudsters have always had one goal: separating hard working individuals and corporations from their hard-earned money. Often, the money that fraudsters steal is directed to fund even more dangerous activities throughout the world, including terrorism, human trafficking, arms deals, and government instability. Although the goal has stayed...

With the pandemic changing how consumers shopped and opened more households than ever before, Amazon recorded record sales of $220 million in April 2021. Surprising even the most shrewd Wall Street strategists, the online giant continues to report jaw-dropping profits, capturing the attention of retailers and small businesses alike. So,...

Running a full-service insurance brokerage is generally a straightforward proposition. The company’s agents prospect for clients and write targeted insurance policies for those who come on board. Agents earn commission for the policy sales and retention. As the agents’ books of business grow, the insurance brokerage expands and may offer...

The name is the business very window to the world. It is what people will know it as, and how you will be remembered. It is such an important part of any start-up journey and should be done in a creative and carefully conducted manner. While some of the most...

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...

Nicolas Krafft found his career passion in the beauty and cosmetics industry, becoming a respected executive at L’Oreal who guided global marketing and sales strategies around some of the world’s best known professional beauty brands. After completing his MBA at the St. Gallen University in Switzerland, with a major in...

The revolving door of the COVID reentry is enough to make the most seasoned leaders lose heart. People are overwhelmed, filled with fear and judgment, and quitting their jobs in what’s been called “The Great Resignation.” Let’s face it, the stakes couldn’t be higher: burnout, loss of top talent, a...

Transforming organizations takes years, is hard work, and often leads to disappointing results.  This is common wisdom.  It’s been proven time and again.  It goes with the territory. But it doesn’t have to be that way.   Most approaches to organization transformation are littered with flawed paradigms.  Paradigms that inherently lead...