Do your employees feel confident at work right now? Or are you worried that the Great Resignation may impact your company? Take these steps to make sure that your focus on innovation is the reason employees stay, and not the reason they leave. There are a lot of reasons behind the current Great Resignation, but…
If there was ever a time to contemplate a reinvention, it’s now. The last year and a half has been challenging for a variety of reasons, and we’ve all collectively experienced it—although in different ways. If you want your future to be different, reinvention is the answer. If you want to find solutions to many…
Learning how to pivot is a critical skill for leaders and innovators who will undoubtedly experience uncontrollable circumstances. What happens when you run an experiment and the outcome is not what you had planned? One of the traps of experimentation is expecting the testing to validate your thinking. It is natural to want the experiment…
We’ve all seen plenty of disruption over the past year-plus. But believe me when I say disruption is a gift. Here’s why: Disruption offers one of the most golden opportunities. It gives us the opportunity to learn, to change, and to dream. Now is the time to be a student, a change agent, and a…
I have a bias to confess to. The phrase “we are in this boat together” sparks an almost irrational irritability. While we are in this pandemic storm together, we are most certainly not in the same boat. As leaders, we know instinctively that some of our team members are flailing around in a dinghy with…
The pandemic has given us all an opportunity to build a new business future. Market disruption equals opportunity for those willing to look and work for it. This is the time to adjust and innovate your business model to market conditions. During COVID and the VUCA season it has created, we have seen ample reason…
In this article, we’ll look at three ways to engage customers and create products they want to buy right now. If you have an idea for a product or service but are uncertain about launching something new during the pandemic, rest assured that people are still buying. They are looking for solutions to the unique…
Innovation and why creating new value for your customers is essential. Originally published by Better Business Bureau, February 23, 2021. As a business owner, how you deal with disruption can dictate how well you run your business. After 2020, many small business owners not only stared adversity in the eyes, but they had to come…
Businesses that are surviving are those that were either prepared or those that pivoted quickly, innovated, and found ways to keep delivering value for their customers. The business world has been significantly disrupted by the pandemic. During situations of macro disruption, most people look for ways to first survive and eventually emerge from the circumstances…
It has been said, the best way to find your way around a new location quickly is to ask for ideas. As many of us are working from “new locations,” ideas are more important than ever. How do you capture ideas during crisis? What is the best way to manage those ideas? How do you…
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