Next Step Blog
What do I do NOW?
In a world that is constantly changing at exponential speed, people including business leaders must adapt to navigate through the storm of change quickly. When shifts happen or we are faced with [...]
Technology + People: The Formula for Sustainable Business Growth
Technology is no longer a choice—it’s the foundation of modern business. Across industries, AI, automation, and digital platforms are transforming how we work, interact with customers, and drive growth. Analysts predict [...]
Breaking Free from the Old Paradigm: How Corporate Leaders Can Overcome Resistance to Change
Remember when the norm for most professionals involved long commutes, demanding bosses, and working with the limited tools provided by the company? While this may sound antiquated today, it was the reality [...]
Is your Team Ready for Success in AI Powered World?
In today’s rapidly changing landscape, the paramount challenge for corporate executives is ensuring their teams have the right skills and mindset to thrive today and tomorrow. The solution is not just about [...]
Leveraging the Multi-Generational Workforce
We stand at the precipice of a transformative era—a tipping point of change where six generations, spanning from the Silent Generation to Gen A (those as young as five years old,) hold [...]
Power to the People: When AI’s Not Enough
AI won’t save your business – people will. While AI is revolutionizing sectors, adding billions in annual value across banking ($200- $340 B) and pharmaceuticals ($60-$110 B) and powering innovations from personalized [...]
Embracing Tomorrow: AI and Humanoid Robots
The Unstoppable Tide of Technology 2024 presents a dynamic landscape, with shifts like evolving climate conditions to geopolitical transformations and the redefinition of ‘work’ as Gen Z steps into leadership roles. Artificial [...]
Change is the Only Constant
The paradigm has shifted. The rate of change is nearly 200% faster than ever and expected to accelerate by 33% during ’24 – driven by technology advancements, geopolitics, and economics. Nearly half [...]
Why Change? The New Reality of Work is Here
Imagine walking into the lobby of your local bank, saying hi to the teller you’ve become friendly with, and adjourning to a side room for a private one-on-one meeting with your personal [...]
Which Four Bubbles Does Global Peer Collaboration Burst?
Innovation has top of corporate agendas for over a decade – often with limited results despite leadership training programs, the establishment of innovation hubs, joint ventures, and hackathons for inspiration and insight. [...]
Unlocking Success in ´23: Customer Experience, Collaboration, Commitment
Unlocking Success in '23: What do global leaders believe will be the keys to success in 2023 and beyond? The Power of Customer Experience, Collaboration, and Commitment.
2022 is Nearly Over
2022 – the year of inflation, unstable financial markets, global worker shortages, war, and socio-economic conflicts. It was also a year of accelerated innovation with over $900 billion invested globally in R&D. [...]
Have You Found Your RANT Yet? Reviving the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Challenging Times
As we emerge from the worldwide pandemic, businesses face many new, unexpected challenges: inflation, supply chain problems, workplace issues like adapting to more remote work, “quiet quitting” and employee burnout.
3 Things Leaders Can Learn From The Great Resignation
The post-pandemic job market experienced a tremendous rate of voluntary resignations in the last couple of years. According to the Harvard Business Review, this trend was not as unexpected as it may seem, and the average quit rates have been rising for the past twelve years.
Designing Future-Ready Recruitment – Learnings from Global Leaders
The uncertainty faced by the business world over the past two years combined with the shifts in people’s preference toward autonomy and flexibility created the perfect storm for a global talent shortage. Some recruiters are calling it the toughest recruitment year, ever.
Four Predictions From Experts on What Life 3.0 Will Look Like
Life 3.0 refers to the point in our future when emerging technologies and trends (AI, metaverse, web 3.0, blockchains) will come to dominate our everyday lives, altering fundamentally how we work, interact, [...]