Why Must Business Leaders Often Fail in Order to Succeed?
{Time to read: 4 minutes} Many entrepreneurs and corporate executives are often faced with tough decisions to make, but they don’t always have a team of trusted advisors at their disposal. Vistage International, based out of San Diego, is an organization that brings ‘C level’ executives together for monthly meetings to network with centers of […]
How to keep your organization attractive to younger generations in the 21st century
Today, many Congregations, Synagogues and Mosques are seeing a decline in their membership and active participation. This is mainly due to changing demographics where the core membership is aging and attendance is down. A challenge for any denomination is determining how to attract younger members from Gen X and Gen Y to reinvigorate their community. […]
Are You a Confident Leader?
Leaders must have the confidence to continue growing and learning if they want their team to follow suit. This was just one of the lessons I took away from a leadership development seminar I attended recently called L2 (Learn, Lead). This seminar was sponsored by leadership guru John Maxwell, who has a new book called […]
Preparing Generation Z For Life: Improving the college experience!
Recently, I came across a New York Times article which revealed that kids graduate from college and often remark “I don’t know what I want to do…for my first job…or career”. Even though parents spend massive amounts of time, energy and money putting them on the right path. Over the past few decades, the U.S. population […]
How Do You Discover New Innovations While Working 9-5?
In the past, people traded paper on the New York Stock Exchange. Transactions were handwritten on a pad and reconciled at the end of the day. Those transactions are now done with computers. You can call your broker and say, “I want to sell 100 shares of Apple.” The broker asks if there is a […]
How Can You Invest In Your Community To Develop Tomorrow’s Leaders?
Carving time out of your busy schedule to give back to your community can be challenging but not impossible. I’ve made it a priority in my personal and business lives to give back to those who may not have had the same opportunities I have had. I’m very involved with a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the […]
Using Future Spotting Effectively
In our last article, we discussed the advantages of using “crystal ball” in a business setting. While one can hope that gazing deep into such a device can reveal the future, this is usually not the case. Instead, one can brush up on their “Future Spotting” ability which refers to having an awareness of emerging […]
Do You Have A Crystal Ball?
Trying to “guess” future trends that will drive your business is a difficult task. However, there are incredible rewards if one can look into their crystal ball and see a clear picture of what is coming, thus “Future Spotting.” I attended a conference last year, where a Futurist spoke about trends that businesses should anticipate […]
Is your time management system like this?
With a new year comes a new way of managing information. I used to use a planner called Time Design, which was a system that gave an activities checklist, rather than a daily to do list. You would take your thoughts and ideas, download them then prioritize them. There was a category for immediate projects, […]
What does $16B buy you in today’s tech market? Ask Facebook!
The front page of the New York Times recently featured the story of What’s App, a text-based app with 450 million users worldwide, with the majority of users being in Europe. This app allows small group discussions by text, so it has facilitated great communities of people who want smaller true-friends-and-family-style conversations. Last year, Facebook […]