10 Disruptive Trends for 2020
Disruption is everywhere. Here are 10 trends that will create opportunities – and threats – in 2020. Twenty years ago,…
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Four Types of Customer Experiences for Competitive Advantage
Want to improve your customers’ experience? Try these connected strategies. What’s the secret to a winning business model and long-term competitive…
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Forget Your Business Plan. Create a Strategy Map.
Strategic plans become outdated the moment they’re created. Instead, create a one-page strategy map. Having run the internal strategy consulting group at…
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Create a Culture of Innovation with the 10 Laws of Trust
Trust is the currency of business success. Here’s how to build it into your corporate culture. Leading organizational change to create a…
DetailsA Sad Fact: Leaders Who Lie Can Still Be Trusted by Their Followers
Being truthful and being trustworthy aren’t the same, which poses a problem for both society and the practice of leadership…
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Amazon’s Success Boils Down to Six Building Blocks
Replicate Amazon’s secret formula for winning big in the digital age Having run strategy and leadership development programs across the Fortune 1000 for over…
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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs
Mentoring transforms big ideas into high-impact innovations. Having worked with dozens of the Fortune 1000 companies, coached startups, and founded three companies,…
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Don’t Make a New Year’s Resolution. Create a Start-Stop-Continue Plan Instead.
Real change requires more than just doing something new. It also involves stopping what doesn’t work and continuing what’s already…
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Top Strategy and Innovation Books of 2019
The best strategy & innovation books deliver new insights, examples and tools for reinventing business. I’ve recently written about the…
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The Future of Smart Cities
Our communities are getting really smart. Here’s what to expect. I’m sitting here in a large convention center in Los…
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