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A rigorous cybersecurity plan is critical for your company’s protection, but it means nothing if you’re employees aren’t trained to recognize cyberthreats. When employees know what to watch out for, you can be assured that your organization will be safe from data breaches and other security issues. Implement these strategies to turn your employees into

Have you ever found yourself perusing a long menu in a restaurant, with a plethora of fabulous choices and found yourself incapable of making a choice for your meal? In fact, after looking at all these fabulous choices you’re not even hungry anymore.  It’s not you, it’s them! The body of research on persuasion talks

Former NCAA men’s basketball coach Jeff Meyer founded Alpha Flow Executive to help the nation’s top amateur and pro athletes — along with fellow founders, entrepreneurs, and C-suite executives — reach a ‘flow state.’ This can also be described as the ultimate balance that leads to progress, motivation, accomplishment, and feeling unstoppable. Meyer worked with

I begin the workshop portion of my half-day Peernovation program by asking: What does it take to be a valuable contributor to your team? Not just any team, your team. I ask the question that way for a reason, as I want everyone to feel a sense of ownership from the start of our session.

As pandemic restrictions have largely lifted in most of the world, the question about “return to office/in-person work” for knowledge workers generates a broad range of opinions along with some strong feelings. While the idea of a hybrid work environment is viewed by the vast majority as the way forward, there are wildly different views

Finding—and keeping—the right employees is what keeps a business humming. No one in corporate leadership will tell you that they don’t worry about high employee turnover or that retention isn’t a part of their talent strategy. However, saying employees are your focus and doing something to make sure your organization is talent-centric aren’t the same.

Deals that look great on spreadsheets can still hit severe obstacles when companies struggle to merge their cultures and work together effectively. With global deal value hitting a record high of $5.9 trillion in 2021, the business world is sure to hear more about corporate culture clashes that lead to acrimonious break-ups. One of the

It’s become a familiar story. The CEO of a company, sleepless over talent shortages and turnover owed to the Great Resignation and Boomer retirement, directs HR to go on an acquisition tear to “hire the best people.” They oblige, and permanent (and expensive) hires are made, with the company celebrating its talent war wins. But

Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed an immense shift in what individuals expect from their work environments. Across industries, workers are leaving positions that don’t offer the flexibility, transparency and mobility that is now an expectation, rather than a perk. Even when they don’t leave their jobs, many are now engaging in “quiet quitting,”

Workflow bottlenecks can negatively impact everything from employee satisfaction to the bottom line. Avoiding the snowball effect that comes with logjams means creating more efficient workflows that keep the organization moving in the right direction. These three strategies can help keep your operations on time and budget. In any corporate workplace, efficiency is the key

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the commitment of businesses to contribute positively to society through their operations, products, and services. It can also be understood as the broader concept of corporate philanthropy. Corporate Social Responsibility or social responsibility, especially today, is a controversial practice followed -among other things- by businesses for the formation of the

The legendary baseball manager Leo Durocher is remembered for his equally legendary quip about nice guys finishing last. I’ll leave it to the sports experts to debate whether he was right. But in my experience, a variation of the Durocher maxim has since become an indelible part of how the business world views the role

I don’t want to scare you, but the status quo is a death sentence. Most modern organizations are run using systems and strategies that will seem almost comically outdated a few short years from now. That’s because the strategic orchestration of technologies described in this book—conversational AI, hyperautomation, and intelligent automation—will do a lot more

As the Great Resignation continues, the epidemic has reached the top: many in the C-Suite now have one foot out the door. A recent Deloitte survey found that nearly 70% of executives are seriously considering quitting their jobs and searching for positions that better support their well-being. Some leaders have already led the way out. A CEO

High-performing peer advisory groups and top organizational teams have at least two common attributes: 1) An active Learning-Achieving Cycle and 2) An acute understanding of the power of celebration. Both are foundational to realizing Peernovation. So let’s unpack their attributes and their relationship to one another so you can make them a part of how

We all have people in our personal and professional life who we find challenging. We may label them as ‘precious’, ‘difficult’ or ‘hard work’.  The typical approach to managing people such as this is to try to avoid them or find a way to work around them. This may work as a short-term approach, but

Landing a coveted spot on the hit ABC show, Shark Tank, is a dream from many entrepreneurs. But it’s not easy. According to USA Today, the show receives 35,000-40,000 applicants each season. Of these, only 1,000 advance to the next round and in most seasons, only 88 contestants will appear on the show. Many of

CEO optimism rebounded for the first time in months in early August, as Chief Executive’s leading indicator of CEO confidence clawed back more than half of the one-quarter-plus loss it has experienced since the beginning of the year. But that’s not to say CEOs are expecting U.S. businesses to be out of the woods any

After likely spending a lifetime building your business, deciding to exit can be a hard choice. It’s made even harder if you don’t have a comprehensive exit strategy in place. Senior wealth manager Susan Jones provides a guide to exit planning — from estate planning to liquidation strategies — to make the transition smoother for

If you had invested in each member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index over the five years ending in 2021, your investment in 92% of the companies would have earned a positive return. Less than one in 12 companies would have lost you money. Similar stats would be expected, on average, when we look