Inspiration and imagination are part of what Einstein called the "sacred gift." Without it, an individual can go through life much like a robot or dro...
Despite the criticism the line has received, Carnival has the opportunity to show great leadership in how it responds going forward. Here are five steps Carnival should take to improve its media problems.
With hotels located in diverse cultural contexts all over the globe, the brand smartly balances control with the main brand pages and individual properties.
If you are banging your head against a particular problem, change your approach, or find a new problem. But most of all, stop trying harder.
Planning in advance is critical. No child wants to see their parent's crazy boss yelling at them; a disaster like that could be forever imprinted in a kid's memory. But if you keep these key tips in mind, the day could be a tremendous success for you both.
Whether speaking to an Acceleration Group client or a group of MBAs in one of his e-Business strategy courses, Alejandro Crawford emphasizes two main points about marketing strategies today: What is the same and what is different.
The future is arriving faster than expected. According to a report by the National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2030, 17 years from now the world will be remarkably different. How does America plan to deal with this change?
In my work launching new businesses (or fixing businesses that have plateaued), one place I see entrepreneurs in every industry get stuck, frustrated, or misguided, is in attempting to apply old models to new business.
Thinking outside of the box, you will find greater success and happiness in your work and life.
Zappos founder and CEO Tony Hsieh stopped by the Samsung Blogger Lounge to discuss the revitalization project of Downtown Las Vegas, the new SXSW v2v program, and incredible predictions for the future of business and technology.
Treating a $1.6 billion, 11,000-employee organization like it's your personal plaything isn't funny, and including a neo-hipster inside joke about Battletoads in your farewell missive doesn't make it all okay.
As new initiatives arise, the environment changes or questions are raised about whether to continue an ongoing activity, how do we find the resources to answer these questions?
Since so many assets now seem intangible and imbedded in goodwill, brand values and intellectual property, what are some meaningful strategic statements that can guide "design thinking" in this new virtual world?
They're both body art, and their respective consumers are changing the way we live, work, eat, play and spend.
Relationships open our minds, open our hearts and open doors. In a slow economy, opening doors just may be the most important benefit of building powerful relationships - particularly our business relationships.
Too many companies start with an overambitious plan which they're pre-committed to adhere to. The wiser goal: Work to build a small, loyal fan base and stable recurring revenues, then reinvest in expanding your product and company.
Elements of past success in previous organizations can be incredibly helpful in shaping strategy in a new position, but the default mindset needs to be 'what's new and different here that requires new and different solutions?', not 'what can I copy wholesale from my last job?'.
Do you ever notice how good it feels when you experience the power of simplicity? It's clarifying, even freeing. On the other hand, do you notice how heavy it feels when you're experiencing complexity? It has a certain weight to it.
Is a cat the best decision for a Monopoly game piece? And thinking more broadly about crowds and commerce, when does it make sense and when does it NOT make sense to cast a wide net for input into business decisions?
If you want to become good at influencing others, then you simply need to learn how. It's not magic, and it's certainly not innate. It may sometimes feel innate, but that's because people are often able to pick up on effective strategies implicitly, through experience and observation.
As we hopefully continue our recovery in 2013, where will leadership focus? Will we rebuild the trust we lost with employees when the recession started and jobs were eliminated at a record pace?
"I don't like my new boss," my friend said a while back over lunch. "We don't fight enough." You what?!?! I was taken a little off-guard by my frien...
If there's no substance and fire in your vision for the future, how will you infuse those qualities into the rest of your strategic plan? Here's a no-nonsense summary of the elements that you can use as a guide when you develop your strategic plan.
If we think the reason we've not been hit again is only because we've done such a good job of keeping the terrorists in check, just remember the logic the homeland security and defense people like to use to keep us on edge: "We have to be right all the time; they have to be right only once."
When traditional systems falter and fail, new ideas spring to life. Little noticed by most observers, handholds on processes of potentially important new forms of change have been quietly developing around the country.
