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Video: "What You Do Right Now Defines Your Future"
The day Lehman Brothers went down in 2008, at an event where I was on stage, a CEO spoke to his team on how to react. The guidance was vivid, to the point, and spot on. It…
Leadership Keynote: 9 Things You Need To Do Right Now: Rediscovering Growth, Opportunity and the Future When Volatility is the New Normal!
Speaker bureau, event and meeting planner friends - leadership folks - clients.... My 2020-21 Recession keynote topic was just published. "9 Things You Need to Do Right Now…
Leadership Today : “Accelerating Through Uncertainty” -> Fixing the Question / Answer Imbalance Through Action!
Right now, people have too many questions, and not enough answers. This upsets the traditional balance that people base decisions upon. The result? They stop making decisions…
What Will You Do To Create Your Future in This Downturn? Here's I Told the Wall Street Journal!
It's pretty certain that we are going to have an economic recession. The downturn is going to be swift, ugly, unpredictable. So what are you going to do as you move through the…
Freeze, innovate or panic? Innovation strategies for RIGHT NOW!
Given the rapid pace of global economic developments with Covad-19, organizations are faced with a pretty stark choice! What I've learned over 25 years is that it is our ability…
Revisiting the 7 Stages of Economic Grief: When Do You Innovate?
Back in 2009, Business Week ran an article, "10 Worst Innovation Mistakes in a Recession." At the time, I was busy with a number of global companies helping them to focus on…
Announcing My Keynote at i3 2020 - Revisiting My Cardboard People and Plasma People Meme - and What You Need to Innovate in Retail Today!
It is really, really cool to be announced as the opening keynote speaker for the upcoming i3 2020 event in Chicago this May. That's because this is an aspect of the retail…
Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #10 – Shorten Your Story
How do you innovate when everything is faster still - and when your customers aren't really paying attention? How do you position your brand when no one is listening to what you…
Manure, Penguins and Your Future! Linking Really Weird Trends into Insight for the Era of Acceleration!
Find your penguins! Grok manure managers! What's this all about? It goes way back to an article I wrote in my column in Profit, and even earlier than that, in my book, Survving…
Insight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #4 – Partner Up!
If you could do it alone, you would have already achieved what you needed to achieve! But in the era of acceleration, the world is far too complex to navigate on your own. The…
Video From the Vaults: "Aggressive Indecision" and "Committing to It!"
So, this morning I went and retrieved a video from the vault, and cut a little section out of it - around the theme of aggressive indecision. Based on my previous post today, the…
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