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Why Now Is Time For A Strategic Leadership Retreat

During the depths of the Global Pandemic, I began to notice a disturbing comment in the interviews I conduct regularly with organizational leaders. It went something like this: “We can’t even think about next week, much less next quarter. Strategic planning and forward thinking are out the window.” It was an understandable sentiment. We were reeling, and there was no…

The Comeback of the Meetings Industry

The sun is coming out on the conference industry, just in time. Even worse than the cruise industry, the meetings industry has been hammered by Covid-19. Hundreds of mostly small businesses have simply disappeared. Many others are on life support. Those of us who’ve been in the industry awhile know that when the economy catches a cold, the meetings industry…

Four “Future of Work” Trends to Act On Today

Each year I interview dozens of organizational leaders on their most pressing business challenges. In my conversations during the past year, operational and crisis-driven issues — keeping employees safe and supply chains functioning — have predominated. And even as readers in some countries (Brazil and India) are experiencing infection surges and rising deaths due to the ongoing Global Pandemic, the…

How to Think Like a Futurist

When Covid shut down life as we know it a year ago, many a company went into “batten down the hatches” mode. They followed their recession playbooks. When demand took off instead, in such industries as exercise equipment, pet products, and virtual meeting software, many were caught flat-footed. Some are still struggling to catch up. Wisconsin-based Trek Bicycles is out front right now based…

The Case For Optimism In 2021

“How can you be upbeat about a ‘post-pandemic future’ when there’s so much pain and uncertainty right now,” a colleague asked me the other day, as we were preparing for a webinar. Valid question, I had to admit. Here it is December and things seem on the brink of chaos. A surge in coronavirus cases on top of a surge…
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