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Human Centric Leadership: Building Trust for Future Growth
Leadership is never easy – especially during periods of uncertainty and change. The challenge today is exacerbated by employees’ ‘pandemic fatigue’, lack of face to face interactions and rapidly evolving customer [...]
Gaining PEACE for Future Success
While the future will be different, tomorrow will come. By managing fear, keeping perspective and embracing new ways of working, we can each take the next step forward with PEACE. Perspective: [...]
Winning back the Retail Customer – It’s Not Too Late
While the demise of traditional retailers such as Sears, is often attributed to technology growth, the real killer is lack of attention to customer experience, choice and market direction. Consumers have [...]
Humans Vs Machines
While robots which vacuum the carpet, mow the lawn or deliver lunch are cute time savers, their possible entry into the workplace can be scary. Employees who have spent years [...]
Future-ready Sales Success
With the wide-spread growth of tools for customer behavior tracking and engagement, many buyers have become accustomed to ‘offers’ and opportunities to expand, enhance or replace solutions even before they [...]
Taking Action to Get Future Ready Now
Global executives gained inspiration to Get Future Ready Now during the Executive Growth Alliance Summit. Future-readiness means having the confidence, peers support, collaborating partners and commitment to: [...]
Getting Future-Ready Now with Peer Support
Peer Case Activity at “Get Future Ready Now” EGA Summit, 28th August 2019 with Jennifer Vessels According to 80 global executives from around the world who attended Executive Growth Alliance [...]
How to Get Future Ready Now: 2019 Summit Summary
Highlights of EGA Summit – 28th August 2019 “The future starts now” according to 80 global executives from Norway, Europe, UK, US and Africa during the Get Future Ready Now EGA [...]
CDOs Value to Business Growth and Transformation
Why do companies with Chief Digital Officers underperform similar organizations without CDOs? Often the role (and a department under the CDO) are established to 'transform the business' by leading innovation projects, [...]
Deliver Customer Value to Build Loyalty
Increasing global competition, ubiquitous access to a plethora of choices, personalized marketing and new consumer buying habits are making customer loyalty more critical and difficult for all organizations. The key to [...]
Stop Talking Start Innovating
Stop talking, start innovating Achieving Success Silicon Valley Style Talk about innovation is everywhere – in board rooms, conferences, employee meetings and university classes. In 2019, it is estimated that billions [...]
Decide, move, innovate Silicon Valley Style
Corporate innovation initiatives are top of mind for executives – but often slowed due to long decision processes and planning. Innovation is about trying something and being willing to suffer the [...]