Category Archives: Strategy

Switch Industries and Change your Life

by Beata Staszkow December 23, 2015December 23, 2015 Assess the Industry for Opportunities Identify Your Transferable Skills Blog About the Industry You Want to Work in Industry Transition Often in our executive careers we feel that we are working in the wrong industry. If the thought of working in a different field excites you more … Continue reading Switch Industries and Change your Life →

6 Steps to Create an Effective Business Strategy

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by Jamie MacDonald December 4, 2015 Follow @MindGeniusDecember 4, 2015 Whenever you set off across new territory you’ll want to consult a map, otherwise you’ll get lost. Stepping forward into the unknown (also known as ‘the future’) is what companies do every day. And what do they need to make sure they don’t get lost? … Continue reading 6 Steps to Create an Effective Business Strategy →

Get Past That Gatekeeper Tith These Easy Strategies

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by Barbara McKinney November 24, 2015November 24, 2015 As telemarketers, we can all agree that contacting a decision maker is not always an easy task. First of all, there’s the problem of determining the topics you want to talk about. And then there are gatekeepers. But if you think gatekeepers are annoying, then you might … Continue reading Get Past That Gatekeeper Tith These Easy Strategies →

Give Me 20 minutes and I Will Give You a Better Strategy

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by Dave Wakeman November 23, 2015 Follow @davidwakemanNovember 23, 2015 businessman in office looking at wall with business strategy I’ve written here on several occasions about the importance of a strategy and how you can better identify your strategy. Today I want to bring the conversation down to a more personal level because I want … Continue reading Give Me 20 minutes and I Will Give You a Better Strategy →

Create a Strategy For the New Year Today

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by Personal Branding Blog November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 Building confidence as one builds business is the secret to getting ahead. Early stage entrepreneurs are frequently intimidated by those with more experience. And middle-stage businesspeople are often reluctant to step up to play a bigger game. Those who never take the risk to try more … Continue reading Create a Strategy For the New Year Today →

Teaching Artificial Intelligence To Search, Target Ads Based On Memory

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by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, (October 30, 2015) Intelligent automation will become the next tool for online advertising. A team of researchers at Google demonstrated an artificially intelligent system a few months ago that could reliably identify a mountain-unicycling video, demonstrating the implications of recurrent neural networks (RNN), which will use an internal memory to process sequences … Continue reading Teaching Artificial Intelligence To Search, Target Ads Based On Memory →

Do You Recognize These 3 Early Warning Signs of Bad Strategy?

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Dave WakemanOctober 29, 2015 Hand drawing a game strategy with white chalk on a blackboard. The downside is that too often, we don’t recognize those signs until a lot of time, money, and energy have been wasted. That’s terrible because those are finite resources. In most cases, the hints that a strategy was faltering are … Continue reading Do You Recognize These 3 Early Warning Signs of Bad Strategy? →

Warning: Don’t Read This If You Aren’t Prepared To Refocus Your Strategy

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Dave WakemanOctober 23, 2015 Over and over, strategy comes up in conversation. Usually it comes up in the form of a question. Something like: “How do we refocus?” “Why does it always feel like we are spinning our wheels?” These and other similar questions always lead me to understand that a business has lost its … Continue reading Warning: Don’t Read This If You Aren’t Prepared To Refocus Your Strategy →

Why Your Firm Should Use Research as a Catalyst for Change

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Karl FeldmanOctober 15, 2015 It’s something we can all relate to: first, there are the growing pains or emerging issues that begin to raise red flags. Next come the discussions, opinions, and committee meetings attempting to get to the root of the problem. Unfortunately, all of this talking and planning often ends in a gridlock, … Continue reading Why Your Firm Should Use Research as a Catalyst for Change →

How Long Before Your Market Cuts The Cord?

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Angela Hausman, PhDSeptember 29, 2015 Are you still tied to a cord? More and more folks are cutting the cord — the one connecting them to a cable or satellite box and serving up hundreds of channels they never watch. Smart media companies, like CBS and HBOGo, are poised to capitalize on Internet media with … Continue reading How Long Before Your Market Cuts The Cord? →