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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Innovation Capital.

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How to Lead in High Turbulence – 5 Lessons from the Tunisian revolution

Strategy Driven

This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. How could I refuse? That was the beginning.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Post words. Achieve big. Build success. Day-by-Day.

Strategy Driven

ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. LESSON: Don’t stay attached to old technology or products even though they have brought success and profit in the past. I want to write, speak, travel, learn, read, and have meaningful family time. Instant success. The post Post words. Achieve big.

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Decide Whether That Board Seat Is Right for You

Harvard Business Review

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Prospective directors should ask themselves if the company has a unique advantage that can be translated into industry leadership.

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Vacation Policy in Corporate America Is Broken

Harvard Business Review

Coinciding with this is recent discussion in the business media that since “work” no longer adheres to the traditional 9-5, and technology allows us to be connected anywhere and everywhere, perhaps those longer work hours should be reconciled with more time off. But an unlimited-vacation-days perk misses the point.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

Originally, business consisted of neighbors exchanging the products of their labors, dedicated craftsmen travelling from town to town, and localized general stores. CIOs must become aware of the changes in the business world and the enterprise and how these changes are affecting the roles in the C-suite and their own leadership role.

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