March 14, 2024 3 reasons the leadership skills you learned in business school are holding you back The author of ‘Confronting the Storm’ insists that old ways of solving problems in business have to be unlearned. BY David Ross I’ve always admired the way leaders can identify a solution for linear-style problems so readily, and so … Continue reading 3 reasons the leadership skills you learned in business school are holding you back
By Anisa Purbasari Horton March 12, 2024 Entrepreneurship is often portrayed as the domain of the young. We hear countless stories of founders in their 20s and 30s raising millions of dollars, which creates the impression that the best time to start a business is at the beginning your career. But the statistics show otherwise. … Continue reading 6 women on what they learned about starting a business in midlife
By Michel Koopman January 05, 2024 The sophisticated and often nuanced manner in which leaders communicate is pivotal in forging or fracturing relationships with employees, colleagues, and stakeholders. As a Dutch-American CEO and founder, I’ve painstakingly navigated the intricacies of direct and transparent communication, learning to intricately balance forthrightness with empathy. The Dutch are … Continue reading I’m not rude, just direct. Here’s how I learned to communicate with care
By Wilfred Chan July 07, 2023 Earlier this week, Lacey Purciful, a 38-year-old homeowner in Kempner, Texas, uploaded to TikTok an upsetting interaction captured by her porch security camera. A male delivery worker hands her a pizza, and as he turns to leave, remarks: “I just want to say, it’s a nice house for a … Continue reading A DoorDash worker cursed at her over a $5 tip. Then she learned what they’re paid
By Stephanie Mehta July 05, 2023 MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen became a central figure in the debate over executive compensation when a clip of her telling employees to “leave pity city” went viral in April. The 90-second segment, which came at the conclusion of a 75-minute March town hall, shows Owen responding to a … Continue reading Exclusive: MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen talks RTO and what she learned from that infamous town hall
We trained ChatGPT on our content and turned our website into a chatbot to help us understand what all this AI stuff means for marketers. Marc Sirkin on April 28, 2023 OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT got everyone in the tech world thinking, ourselves included, about its impact on everything. We started to wonder, and ask … Continue reading We turned MarTech into a chatbot. This is what we’ve learned (so far)
By Porter Braswell April 27, 2023 Today we’re announcing that we’ve entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Jopwell, the first company I started and the foundation for all I’ve been able to accomplish professionally. Eight years ago, I began this journey with my co-founder Ryan Williams – and it’s completely surreal … Continue reading The top five things I’ve learned from being a Black founder
By Eric Ripert December 22, 2022 My greatest mistake was leading from anger. When I was a young chef at Le Bernardin in 1992, hired to run the kitchen by brother-and-sister owners Gilbert and Maguy Le Coze, I had a really bad temper. It was my first chef position, and I was acting up … Continue reading Eric Ripert: I learned the hard way that you don’t get better results if your team is scared
By Melanie Gaboriault December 11, 2022 When I picked up my 15-year-old daughter from an event recently, I overheard her, as she said goodbye to someone she’d just met, ask them: “Hey, what’s your Snap handle?” At that moment, I couldn’t help but remember the days when I would scribble down friends’ home phone numbers … Continue reading What I’ve learned about the new era of communication from my Gen Z kids
How to Survive a Global Recession: Lessons Learned from Covid-19 What started out as rumors of a global recession seems to be more likely than most of us thought possible. We were being told, after all, that the economy was ‘bouncing back nicely’ after it took a hit during the last two years of a … Continue reading How to Survive a Global Recession: Lessons Learned from Covid-19
