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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking or Face Economic Calamity

Great Leadership By Dan

They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers need to realize that how they grew up is affecting the way they are selling and marketing their organizations. But you cannot sell and market to Millennials the same way you were sold and marketed to. Information is essential.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

This job you are in isn’t about enhancing your standing relative to others, but is about enhancing your organizations’ performance in the market, which can only be achieved through the combined efforts of your entire team. If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To

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Projects Are the New Job Interviews

Harvard Business Review

interrogatory genre; the real question will be how well candidates can rise to the "appliject" challenge and help redesign a social media campaign, document a tricky bit of software, edit a Keynote presentation, produce a webinar or peer review a CAD layout for a contract Chinese manufacturer. Exploitive?

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Focus on Keeping Up with Your Customers, Not Your Competitors

Harvard Business Review

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

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