An Operational Tool Becomes a Diagnotic

Once in a while, when I’m reading about leadership best practices, I notice the mention of tools that, at first, sound kind of mundane. For example, a leadership blogger might talk about agendas or scorecards or forms that track special projects, or a grid that gets...

Preparing for the Workforce of Tomorrow

Whether you are thinking about how to help your employees grow, or trying to make yourself better at what you do, you have to recognize one of your most important assignments: thriving in an era of constant change. Managing your career and supporting others is an even...

SMB Tech Concerns: What Are Your Top Three?

Small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of the US economy, driving employment, innovation, local development, and economic diversity. If you are part of an SMB, you should be proud – you and your organization can take credit for things like: Job...

Applauding Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders

March is Women’s History Month. Everybody should recognize and congratulate leading women, especially the entrepreneurs among us who create business opportunities that benefit everybody.       Laura Abler One important way we can advance the...

Managing Cyber Security: How AI Can Help Your Business

Launched in 2022, ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot created by OpenAI. The tool has been in the news lately because it is able to answer questions, generate code, translate, calculate, and write prose. To offer our readers an introduction to the topic, we asked chatGPT...

Alignment: A Key to Successful Leadership

According to Peter Drucker, “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make weaknesses irrelevant.” When this is true, it is a case study about the importance of your organization’s being aligned.  Overcoming your own weaknesses...

Four Sales Process Failures Threatening Growth

Is your sales process effective and efficient? Or is it missing critical factors that could help accelerate your sales growth? If you aren’t sure how to answer these questions, your sales process – and your company’s overall sales performance – could suffer. Here’s a...

A Viewpoint on Agency Leadership

Marketing, Media, and Publishing challenge us because they are constantly changing. So, our skills and experience, while very important, must be matched with a set of beliefs and actions that focus on future success. To be successful at working in a changing industry...

Better Habits for a Better Business

James Clear’s Atomic Habits is an excellent guide for anybody looking for a path to more success. In addition to its value for individuals, I believe it has more power when the principles are applied to any organization. Simply put, Atomic...