Strategic Insights

Today's workforce prizes individuality or at least autonomy. How can a leader in a field with demands for technical precision and accountability lead when feedback itself can sometimes be interpreted as oppressive? Discussion about workplace “culture” left business schools in the 1980s and entered the world of business jargon, reaching...

Any 130-year old company has seen technological changes and has had to learn tough lessons in order to continue to grow and sustain its mission through the challenges that those changes bring. This is especially true for Burrelles, the industry’s oldest media data company, which I’m CEO of. It’s even...

It should be no surprise that thought leadership marketing is an effective tool for supporting a nonprofit’s mission. After all, when your organization is out to make the world a better place, it typically has better-than-average stories to tell. What is surprising is how few nonprofit CEOs take the lead...

To be an effective business leader, you must continually grow and adapt to your industry. That has never been more challenging than in the current business climate. This inability to evolve is due to a few factors. First and foremost, the rate with which technology continues to change has sped...

What do these three things have in common? Amazon Prime – Amazon’s $120/year membership service, with an estimated 100 million members Gmail – Google’s free e-mail platform, with more than 1.5 billion active users McCafe – McDonalds’ highly successful café offering The answer: All three ideas came from employees, not...

A PWC survey from 2018 indicates that at least 1 in 4 projects fail according to 59% of their respondents, yet other research indicates that it may be far higher. A key contributor of these failure rates may well be leadership as a June 2018 KPMG sponsored report also linked...

As a leader, the question you may be asking yourself either consciously or unconsciously is ‘how can I make my potential count for the most in this world of effort?’ And that is exactly the question you should be asking. In order to become more effective, perhaps it’s important to...

These days it appears that things must be bigger than before – the most-read, the most-shared or the most-talked-about. It’s all about impact; being bigger than big. The problem with this is that smaller actions can appear to lack impact. Anything that isn’t big, bigger or the biggest can seem...

Most business leaders have taken on a world leadership role without even realizing it. State leaders and elected officials no longer shape the global agenda in the way they have in the past century. Instead, multinational companies have taken on a level of power once reserved for kings, queens and...