A few years ago, Ace Hardware had about 3 percent of the U.S.’s market share for paint. It represented a significant part of the organization’s overall business, but the leadership …
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 …
This is What Commitment to Innovation Looks Like: 3 Signs
The speed of any industry in this era demands constant innovation to maintain success. Today the life cycle of technology is measured in months instead of years. Traditionally, innovation was …
Two Terrifying Exercises that Might Foist Your Team toward Greater Candor and Innovation
Here’s a fun little exercise for you. I’m just kidding. The idea is terrifying. Maybe you should do it anyway. Imagine assembling your leadership team in the room, and then …
Digital Natives: Readying an Older Workforce for Digitally Fluent Younger Colleagues
Instagram provides users with filters to change the appearance of their photos, giving an immediate “wow” factor to casual shots. Photo credit Invantory via Flickr. Last week Facebook bought Instagram, …
A Case Study in Innovation, Profit, and Sustainability
Advocates for corporate sustainability herald a day when green-thinking isn’t just good for the earth, it’s good for the company’s profit margins as well. And certainly this has been the …
Three Forecasts that Will Change Business in the Next 10 Years: Futurist Bob Johansen on the Changing Business Landscape
Leadership futurist Bob Johansen’s job is to look 10 years into the future, anticipate where society is headed, and help businesses prepare to meet future needs. As a keynote speaker …
On Creating Smaller Problems: Stu Hart on Problems that Begat Bigger Problems, and How Small Scale Solutions Can Change the Game
————————————————————————— Stuart L Hart is a leading authority on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. He is the founder of Enterprise for a Sustainable World,www.e4sw.org. This blog is …
Free Starbucks? A Business Lesson in Reciprocity
————————————————————————— Shannon Brown is a Ph.D. student at Benedictine University’s Center for Values-Driven Leadership (CVDL) and has served in leadership positions with Thomson Reuters, Tata Consultancy Services and BoomTime. In …