Being good at business starts with being good at what matters most: people, culture, and the values that connect them. But, how do values-driven companies do that? We answer that question …
New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility
If you grew up in a small town, then Friday nights in the fall probably meant high school football. Maybe you recall that the game’s program was printed with logos …
Dynamic Language | Responsiveness A One Word Strategy for Smoking the Competition & Satisfying Customers
Dynamic Language beats their competition and delight their customers through lightening-fast quality responses. Watch how they do it. Find more great videos from the Return on Values Project at www.cvdl.org/ROVvideos.
The Secret of Steve: The One Simple Question that Made Steve Jobs Successful
This article and its corresponding photo are republished with permission from www.howtoflyahorse.com. For more from author Kevin Ashton, attend our Senior Executive Roundtable on November 20th. The secret of Steve is …
Creating Strategies that Work: An Example from the Pharmaceutical Industry
In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins writes that great companies have a firm understanding of three key things – what they are deeply passionate about (including core values and purpose); …
Four Must-Have Leadership Development Opportunities for the Twenty-First Century
Executives can no longer ignore the fact that business is a social institution and cannot exist outside the contextual environments in which it operates. Firm stakeholders continue to pressure business …
Five Power Habits for Balanced and Effective Leadership
The most effective leaders who consistently achieve and surpass organization, team, and individual performance goals and objectives do not achieve their success by chance or good fortune. As a retired …
How I Spend My Time: One Entrepreneur’s Answer
Editor’s Note: Every quarter we assemble a small group of CEOs and top executives, and ask them the same questions. The answers offer insights into the strategies and processes that …
Creating a Business that’s Optimized for Personal Growth and a Thriving Culture: Blink UX
By all outward signs, business was booming at Blink UX, a Seattle-based user experience research and digital product design firm: 287 percent growth in three years, with 53% in 2013 …