If you’ve become so valuable to your manager that your career has stalled because they don’t want to let you go, it’s time to become dispensable. But how can you do it gracefully? The author presents four ways to keep your value as an employee from halting your career growth. While you show your value…
Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn and now partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners, thinks uncertainty and turbulence are just the new normal, but they’re also opportunities for astute innovators to devise a better future. Individual companies can’t–and shouldn’t–try to solve every global problem. But by aligning their core business mission with social purpose,…
Being a first mover as an ESG-oriented VC fund can become the source of competitive advantage. It will help attract high-quality portfolio firms that are eager to help address some of the most pressing challenges of today, including the climate emergency. To do this, VCs need to evolve their selecting and screening capabilities, rethink their…
In the effort to reduce waste and eliminate redundancy, many companies have exposed themselves to greater risks of supply chain disruption, despite heavy investment in data analytics around demand prediction that should, in principle, drive out uncertainty. This article argues that the failure of demand prediction models is rooted in the fact that they do…
How to Attract Top Talent in 2022 By Michelle Mahony A seismic change in how people view work and the meaning work brings to their lives has created the biggest talent crisis in recent history. The situation is truly unprecedented. Today, 41% of employees in the global workforce are considering resigning from their roles, and 36%…
Too many meeting leaders think their job ends when the meeting starts or that they merely serve as note-taker and “agenda police.” But, as with almost any work project, a meeting’s success relies on the success of leadership communication. This article covers 10 communication tactics that can help leaders and executives attending meetings make sure…
If you find yourself at the crossroads of widely divergent feedback, approach the conflicting messages with curiosity instead of resisting them. Those messages may be inviting you to a stronger, healthier version of yourself if you can get to the bottom of what’s behind them. Start by assuming that the conflict isn’t within the data,…
Walmart Canada applied blockchain to solve a common logistics nightmare: payment disputes with its 70 third-party freight carriers. To solve the problem it built a blockchain network. The system has not only virtually eliminated the payments problem; it also has led to significant operational efficiencies. This article offers five lessons on how to create a…
January 05, 2022 Azeem Azhar sets out his vision for 2022 and shares the trends he thinks will change our world this year. Some changes are hurtling down the pike, like the growth of Web 3.0 and the metaverse, while others are rumbling along more slowly: the continued dominance of Big Tech, and the tireless…
One of the most common concerns expressed by CEOs about their sales organization is that they aren’t consultative enough and that they need to do a better job of selling solutions. In fact, global spending in the IoT market is projected to surpass $1 trillion by 2024, and the research think tank Gartner highlights that…
