Viewed in Inc. “Good communicators know how they’re going to answer questions about their company’s products, financials, or vision. They don’t ramble or give convoluted responses. They use words that are precise and assertive. And there are few leaders who do it better than Apple CEO Tim Cook,” Carmine Gallo writes. But what words are… More
Read more...Seven steps to a more strategic board: What CEOs need to know
Viewed in Deloitte Insights. How much do we really know about what makes a successful corporate board of directors? To be sure, we could stand to know more. In an effort to add to this knowledge base, Deloitte initiated 50 conversations with Fortune 1000 CEOs about their perspective on corporate boards. A few themes emerged:… More
Read more...How the world’s biggest companies fight to stay ahead
Viewed in Fortune. Fortune has just released the 2019 edition of “Global 500,” its annual listing of the world’s 500 largest companies by revenue. With $514B in annual revenue, the largest company on the 2019 list (by far) is Walmart. This year’s listing of the world’s largest companies reveals two macro trends. First, many companies… More
Read more...It’s time to fight back for data sovereignty
Viewed in Forbes. What’s the world’s most valuable commodity? For many years, it was oil. “But things have changed in recent years,” Forbes contributor Michael Ashley writes. “Oil has been dethroned.” Taking its place has been the commodities of the ascending technology industry. As a headline in The Economist put it last year, “The world’s… More
Read more...Alibaba to take on Amazon, opening BtoB services to U.S. companies
Viewed in South China Morning Post. China-based Alibaba opened its business-to-business platform to the U.S. last month in a push to challenge Amazon. Alibaba believes its U.S. offering represents a value proposition for U.S. business-to-business customers. Alibaba is offering clients a flat membership fee of “a couple of thousand dollars a year,” Alibaba’s head of… More
Read more...How do CEOs manage their time? The winners of the 60th annual HBR McKinsey award explain
Viewed in McKinsey We read lots about CEOs, but how does a CEO actually spend his or her time? It is a question that confounds even some of the world’s top business management experts. One such example is Michael E. Porter, a Harvard Business School professor, who forthrightly acknowledged a decade ago that “we had… More
Read more...Facial Recognition is already here: These are the 30+ U.S. companies testing the technology
Viewed in CBInsights Technology unfolds in phases, and we are in the midst of yet another groundbreaking one right now. Facial recognition technologies are likely to transform much of customer transactions across multiple industries in the years to come. “Biometic technology such as facial recognition can quickly and accurately identify individual people and their emotional… More
Read more...A guide to corporate innovation: 19 strategies to drive innovation now
Viewed in CBInsights Global business is filled with clichés and often repeated trends that sound and look great yet ultimately offer little. But they do provide insight to the fact that we can take these things way too seriously. CBInsights takes a humorous look at 19 tactics to “make your corporation look more innovative.” The… More
Read more...The World’s Largest Public Companies 2019
Explore the Forbes 2019 Global 2000 list to see the world’s largest public corporations and industry leaders.
Read more...Are You Ready to Go Freelance?
Viewed in Harvard Business Review. A new Upwork survey reveals some hugely significant statistics about the growth of the American freelance workforce. Over the past five years, its U.S. ranks have grown by 3.7 million workers to now comprise over a third of the total U.S. labor force. The trend now even has a coined… More
Read more...Where Funded Founders Went to School
Viewed in Crunchbase. Most universities do not give out degrees on how to launch a startup, business and technology columnist Joanna Glasner correctly observes. But where do startup entrepreneurs obtain their university educations? This article and report summarize both the universities and the business schools that graduate the most startup founders who raised $1 million… More
Read more...Amazon’s Priorities Over the Years
Discover how Amazon’s priorities have evolved from 1997 to 2017 through insights from their annual shareholder letters.
Read more...Companies Hunt for CEOs with High EQ and Humility
Viewed in The Times of India. What attributes do companies seek in their most senior executive? The answer to that question is evolving, particularly as companies increasingly see value in several prominent soft skills, including humility, humanity, humor and hope. The search for these executives reflects a growing recognition that inclusion and consensus-building are key… More
Read more...Can You Trust Your Trusted Advisors?
Viewed in Spencer Stuart. Organizational leadership can be a very lonely undertaking, but that can be overcome at least partly with competent and trusted advisors. Yet, trust is hard to come by in an advisor. Stephen G. Patscot, who heads Spencer Stuart’s human resources practice, writes that one his colleagues “recently quoted a statistic that,… More
Read more...Why Most People Don’t Become Productive
(Despite Trying Really Hard) Viewed in Inc. Despite the best of intentions, most people struggle with productivity. But what can be done to overcome this? Inc. contributor Matt Plummer identifies four not so obvious and even counter intuitive solutions: First, think in terms of high “present value.” This means that investing time up front to… More
Read more...Alternative Data by the Numbers
Viewed in AlternativeData.org. The data explosion is undeniably obvious across industries. But it is especially prevalent on Wall Street, where the number of buy-side mutual funds’ employees engaged in alternative data including geolocation, satellite, web and payment data, has grown by almost six times over the past five years. Alternative Data provides a helpful overview… More
Read more...Berkshire Hathaway 2018 Letter to Shareholders
Viewed in Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway Chairman of the Board Warren Buffet’s annual letters to shareholders have become one of Wall Street’s most broadly-reported communications, important not just for what they say about the year gone by but equally important about what it says about the investment and macroeconomic trends likely to move the… More
Read more...Ask Any Stock Market Pro: Buying is Easy, Selling is Hard
Viewed in Bloomberg Businessweek with Michael P. Regan. Echoing Buffet’s “buy and hold” theme for successful investing, Bloomberg’s Michael P. Regan argues that active buying and selling of equities remains an immensely complex and time-sensitive undertaking, and that most investors—even those who manage large funds for a living—have proven largely ineffectual at it. The most… More
Read more...The Hot New Channel for Reaching Real People: Email
Viewed in The Wall Street Journal with Christopher Mims. What was old is new again. With emails, companies do not depend on gatekeepers to reach their addressees. While Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter remain popular social media outlets for corporations, recent privacy concerns and complexities with each platform’s algorithms have many companies once again seeing great… More
Read more...Top 10 Learnings about BtoB Free Trial
Viewed on TomTunguz.com with Tomasz Tunguz. Tomasz Tunguz, a venture capitalist with Redpoint Ventures, attended SaaStr, and this article summarizes his presentation there on the research data report he co-authored. Tunguz and Chase received an impressive 600 corporate responses to their survey on Software as a Service (SaaS) companies’ experiences with free BtoB product trials…. More
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