I am fascinated by forecasting the future. Everyone wants to have their very own crystal ball! I am writing a book right now of simple techniques businesses large and small can use to develop their strategic foresight. But, let’s turn to how you can win in the week ahead. If you could see the week […]
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As leaders we are constantly driving for results, addressing obstacles, challenges, bottlenecks, and log jams. And our minds are skewed by biology to hold on to the troubles, the negative experiences, and the problems. This is just the way nature designed us. So today is a great day to appreciate our inner drive and give
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CEOs, come make merry with me and my special guest Bill Lee, founder of Center for Customer Engagement. At this year’s Carpe Annum, Bill will talk with us about how to leverage your marquee customers.
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My father, Robert Sydney Kahan, passed away last week. I wrote about my last visit with him in True Stories Well Told.  The picture here is the two of us together on the first day of my life. His passing was not a shock, it had been coming for years. When I first heard I was all
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My good friend Sarah White helped me with my business bestsellers – she is an editor, writer and all-services-needed when it comes to books. She is also the creator and editor of True Stories Well Told, an online home for people who write and read about real life. I have been a fan of hers
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It’s important to choose personal and professional development opportunities so you can acquire new skills and improve your performance. It’s one of the reasons the Visionary Leadership Academy is so rewarding for everyone involved, including me! Invitation to join circle of association CFOs We will learn from each other, share best practices, explore the future
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My interest continues to turn towards those leaders who take on intractable problems for the greater public good, those who forever break the limiting hold these issues have on humanity. I am looking for visionaries who are breaking through the boundaries we find ourselves constrained by. I am particularly interested in those leaders who have
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From my daughter, Ruchi, with her permission. A homework assignment, to write a narrative that expresses your identity: In the hardest time of my life, when I almost died, my spirituality saved me. When I lived in New Delhi, India, at the Welfare Home for Children, I would hear the auntie/caretaker tell tales about gods
We know that if we use a device that measures waves to detect light, we find light to be a wave. And if we use a device that measures particles for the same task, we detect light to be made up of particles. So, we can see that the apparatus we use to detect has
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The S-curve is well known in innovation circles. “Jumping the curve” is what you do to keep your place and grow in your market.
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