Fighting for the competitive advantage, battling for market share and struggling for differentiation has long been the business strategy norm. Being “different” is supposed to add value to your product or services. But, with everyone claiming to be different, newer, better, … how do you get noticed in today’s market?
As the need to strengthen and stimulate local economic activity grows, more and more public officials, municipal leaders and public sector agencies are seeking private sector businesses to develop, capitalize and operate public private partnerships to build roads, repair bridges, manage new projects, construct and repair facilities and purchase new technology…
Companies experiencing mounting competition, financial crisis, or disruptions around its edges need to change often and regularly in order to survive and thrive in today’s market. The business model changes constantly and will continue to change in this business environment. Therefore, learning to adapt and transform becomes critical to success.
Technology is becoming 1) more personal and 2) more mobile, thus changing the expectations we have about how we can do business. Create a collaborative environment by…
How are you doing at working with different kinds of people? How do you grow your company when people are speaking so many languages? Bringing diverse perspectives from the technical and nontechnical worlds together produces some of the most creative business solutions and innovative results…
Change is inevitable. Think of what you are wearing at this moment. Did you wear that to work 10 years ago or even 5 years ago? Many of my friends and neighbors now work online from home offices. Not only has our attire changed, but the way we do business has changed…healthcare is undergoing reform…higher education’s future is being transformed. In all this change, how do we hang on to what is most valuable and let go of the parts that are no longer working?…
When true leaders speak, we listen. When they lead, we follow. Why? Though some CEO’s would say they became a leader through sheer luck or simply being in the right place at the right time, most successful leaders demonstrate a set of skills beyond technical or managerial….
Creating new work is an art. According to Seth Godin, author of “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?” and seven more best selling innovative books, unique speaker and successful entrepreneur, “Art isn’t something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we’re truly alive.” Ask yourself these 3 questions and consider these 9 ways to succeed…
A generation ago, people used to often sit around a table to eat, discuss, debate and solve problems. Today, we may sit together in the same room and people text each other. Is dialogue dead or just different today? What valuable role can disruptive dialogue play in growing your business? ….
The pressure is on. You have to turn it around to not only survive, but thrive. You cannot change the game by continuing to do what no longer works. So what do you do? How can you reinvent yourself? Where do you begin? How do you create business solutions that are sustainable? Change the game by changing your thinking.
