Episodes
Aug. 29, 2023
Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise with Dr. Wanda T. Wallace
Have you ever thought about why companies have difficulty promoting the right people? Is it that they do not know how to recognize talent and potential? Or are we looking for the wrong things? Our expectations are too high. D...
Aug. 22, 2023
“Sizzlin' Social: Heat Up Your SMB's Success with Local Social"
Thirty years ago, advertising was in newspapers, billboards, and telephone directories, and there was always effective word of mouth. Today we still have word of mouth but in a completely different form, social media. It is h...
Aug. 15, 2023
Moving Beyond Performance When Determining Leadership Potential
When we talk about leadership, most of the time, the focus is on the results, like share prices and profit, rather than on the elements that create them, and this distracts us from the aspects of good leadership. Today's chal...
Aug. 8, 2023
How reading fiction can make you a better leader!
A Forbes Leadership article encourages leaders to pick up a novel that will engage and stretch the right side of their brain—the creative, reflective, empathetic side—because the left side of your brain is busy so many hours ...
Aug. 1, 2023
Broadening digital solutions to support SMBs
In the face of changing customer demands and hybrid buying behaviors, the SMBs that are pivoting quickly and welcoming new technology are demonstrating higher adaptability and resilience than those SMBs who are slow to embrac...
July 25, 2023
Staying competitive with a solid digital strategy
When it comes to technology, the key for any organization is uptime. Every company has employees, whether a small business with one or two employees or a large enterprise with thousands. However, they all use technology, so i...
July 18, 2023
Helping women become strong negotiators
Negotiating is critical for women, and we know it leads to better outcomes: for example, when it comes to wages, women who ask for a raise are more than twice as likely to get one as women who don’t. But the truth is that wom...
July 11, 2023
How to take an Idea and make it into a profitable business
Many people have ideas and want to start their own businesses, but how many of these ideas become successful businesses? Pursuing an idea and trying to start and run a business can be scary because you must give up a lot. You...
June 27, 2023
How acquisitions provide an opportunity for growth for all sides
Mergers and acquisitions happen constantly, but being acquired can sometimes be tough for many companies because it comes with many challenges. Still, it can also be an excellent opportunity for many companies. It can be an o...
June 20, 2023
Office Shock- Creating Better Futures for Working and Living
When you google or ask an individual what the future office will look like, you usually get an answer like “hybrid, greener, home office, open spaces, modern, but these are things already happening today. They are also very “...
June 13, 2023
Understanding Organizations- unraveling their complexity
Why do most businesses make their organizations so complex? According to a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit, 55 percent of all surveyed organizations would call their operational structure very or extremely compli...
June 6, 2023
Finding Your Way in a Data Driven World
We, as leaders, are always starved for data. We want facts, analysis, and research and are given it, but even when surrounded by data, we often still need a clue. Why is that? Because even if we are starved for data, we drown...
May 30, 2023
Leadership:The Warriors Art- what we can learn form history
Leadership books are abundant online, in bookstores, and in libraries, numbering in the hundreds or even thousands. As leaders, we may seek out a few to broaden our perspectives, but there is another way to improve our leader...
May 23, 2023
Why companies should view complaints as gifts with Janelle Barlow
As a consumer, if a product or service does not meet our expectations, we usually consider whether we should complain or not. Half the time, we do not because complaining can be exhausting as a customer, and sometimes you do ...
May 16, 2023
Remote Work-How to manage Freedom, Flexibility and Focus
In this episode, we explore the impact of the global pandemic on the workplace, with a particular focus on remote workforces. While only 6% of people worked from home before the pandemic, this number rose to 35% in May 2020 a...
May 9, 2023
Deep Diving into how AI is Changing Digital Marketing:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term coined by. emeritus Stanford Professor John McCarthy, in 1955, defined by him as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines,” Now, over 60 years later, it has become par...
May 2, 2023
The art of persuasion and influence
Being able to Influence and persuade are the two critical skills that successful leaders share. But they are not only skills needed in leadership; they also come in handy in everyday life. It does not matter if you are trying...
April 25, 2023
Why a people centric company culture attracts talent
The famous management Guru Peter Drucker said, Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Intuitively we know this; we know a strong culture is needed for a company's overall health, competitiveness, and profitability, but sometim...
April 18, 2023
Conversational Commerce-The new personal purchasing process
If you’ve ever had a personal assistant, then you understand what this does to your purchasing process—all the pre-purchase research, placing an order, and even making the payment is done with support. Well, conversational co...
April 11, 2023
Where is and who has my data? Today's data privacy environment,
Most believe companies and the government track and monitor their online and offline activities. Most adults think going through a day with data collected about them is impossible. Data-driven products and services are often ...
April 4, 2023
The outdated advertising agency model: What is it, what's next?
Fast-moving consumer goods like consumer electrics, the movie industry, and the advertising and marketing industry are today's most rapidly changing market segments. This means that the companies serving businesses and consum...
March 28, 2023
Leadership Lessons from the War in Ukraine-what can we learn?
It is one year and approximately one month since Russia invaded Ukraine. An act almost no one thought would happen. So where are we today? What is the current situation, and what are the motives behind Putin’s actions? More i...
March 21, 2023
Keeping up with the evolving world of digital marketing
Digital marketing has transformed the business world and brought marketing to a new level. Driven website traffic, brand awareness, and getting high-quality leads are what businesses are looking for from digital marketing, an...
March 14, 2023
How conscious accountability can elevate results
We all think we know what accountability is but very often, we mix up the words accountability, responsibility, answerability, obligation, and many others. We often use these words in the same context and relate the meaning t...