Want to lead your company, your organization to the next level? What are the key drivers or leadership attributes? Industry knowledge? Financial acumen? Extraordinary charisma? What differentiates a decent manager apart from a leader of greatness, a person who catapults ordinary companies into legendary...Read More
Marketing is coming full circle. And that changes everything. You obviously may have heard that before. So why is that now believable and what does that mean for you, particularly as it’s showtime for budgets and strategy? (Hint: what do your prospects and customers check more than 100 times a day...Read More
Want to grow your company or organization with high-impact leadership? Here’s a binary question set for you: Do you have to lead by coercion, whipping people into shape to get things done? Or are your employees truly engaged with your vision and your company’s goals and reason “why”? Company...Read More
When one opens up a copy of the Economist magazine, one does not expect to see a full-page ad from Shell touting the superb innovation chops of Evansville Mater Dei High School. The front section four-color ad (which also appeared in Sept. 6 Time magazine) profiled the Evansville school for building...Read More
“Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” So said the late Steve Jobs, CEO extraordinaire, way back before iPhones, iPads or much...Read More
Innovation. A living dichotomy that can represent either critical differentiation or a meaningless slogan. Every company wants its transformational capacity, but at the same time, as Wired magazine noted, “Innovation has become the buzzword of the decade in the worlds of business and education.” So...Read More
The numbers are all up, but nobody believes them. U.S. economic news looks better than it has for years, but a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll (in August 2014) found “widespread economic anxiety” at “record levels.” Why? The devastating Great Recession scarred millions, leading to stubborn...Read More
For many hospitals, early fall is strategic planning and budgeting time. What can a hospital do now to make 2015 a standout year? As the healthcare regulatory and compensation environments swirl ever more complex, can smaller and rural area hospitals and clinics effectively compete with larger urban...Read More
