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Working professionally with leadership and management storytelling I collect gold nuggets on the subject, that I find useful, educational and inspirational to others. Stories you and learn and grow from. And issues that will provoke personal reflection and constructive action. My aim is to provide you with insight into the latest trends - but at the same time stear clear of easily digested stories that leaves you with nothing but empty calories and meaningless buzzwords. The subjects featured here all relates to the complex reality that leaders must navigate in todays business world. You're welcome to connect via: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kennethmikkelsen Twitter: www.twitter.com/LeadershipABC I hope you'll be inspired. Enjoy! Kenneth
Imagine there was something you could add to your car’s engine, so that after driving a hundred miles, you’d end up with more gas in the tank than you started with. Wouldn’t you use it? OK, that product doesn’t exist, and maybe never will.
Can companies influence communities to their advantage? The answer is yes, if they engage the community and demonstrate mutual benefits at an early stage.
Revenue Performance Management is a strategy that optimizes interactions with buyers across the revenue cycle to accelerate predictable revenue growth. It’s a transformative process that aligns and unites marketing and sales, instead of allowing silos and dysfunction to get in the way of bottom line growth.”
Advertising and design thinking merges to provide smart solutions that improve urban living. BRILLIANT.
A common misconception today is that innovators are innately creative people. Specifically, many people think that innovators are born with intuitive skills and views of the world that differs from the rest of the population.
The word “data” connotes fixed numbers inside hard grids of information, and as a result, it is easily mistaken for fact. But including bad product introductions and wars, we have many examples of bad data causing big mistakes.
Creativity can seem innate, but like many things, it is actually a delicate balance of nature and nurture. In other words, creative thinking can be enhanced by external forces, and isn’t necessarily reliant on “good genes” or natural ability.
Big corporates are gaming one nation's taxpayers against another's: we need a global deal to make them pay their way.
We need to move past the limitations and confusion associated with the characterization of the new direction that businesses are taking as “social.”
In 2005, David Foster Wallace gave a painfully honest commencement speech, urging listeners to live life mindfully and to have empathy for our fellow humans.
Creating value shown in different eras of history in an infographic. Since first entrepreneurs to startups you can see how Gross World Product increased.
Today the brand voice takes a front seat while the hard sell takes a step back and artfully communicating to your audience is critical in a feed-based advertising landscape that is here to stay.
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What is the key to first hiring and then unleashing the full potential of Millennials and thus building your future workforce? And what exactly are we doing about The Class of 2012, 2013?
The flagship event for the field of Social Business, the Enterprise 2 Conference by UBM Tech, is just around the corner, next week in Boston and it is time to take a look at the state of things.
Boards are deeply worried that their organization's talent practices won't support their organizations' strategic goals.
Managers, rather than focusing on building skills to recognize patterns and take action, will need to focus on designing the curricula.
Social business has the potential to change the way we work, but for the most part it has not. The social enterprise is not yet here, though many talk about it, and confuse it with using social tools. For that, we can blame management.
The firm as we know it is just too rigid. Too often new ideas are scrutinized with tough mindedness and high indignation. If we can't see the business model and see how to "monitize this sucker," we're not interested.
Executives don’t speak the language of social media. They speak the language of the C-Suite and their audience are shareholders and stakeholders…not necessarily customers or employees or “people” in its most human sense.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” Steve Jobs What on earth is happening to management? Formerly self-evident truths are being cast aside. The sacred goal of maximizing shareholder value is now “the dumbest idea in the world”.
The economically poor have surprising and ingenious ways of getting more out of less, and these frugal and sensible innovations need to be widely shared and adopted
There’s a great assumption that the future of technology falls in the hands of emergent generations.
The youth of today will someday represent the majority of consumers, employees and citizens. That’s always the case, but what we don’t yet fully appreciate is just how different young adults think today. We don’t yet understand what it is they value and why. We’ve not yet assimilated how they make decisions and what factors influence their daily activities and journeys.
The last thing you want is to make your customers miserable. We call these “pain points” - when a company’s inefficiencies make customers feel frustrated or uncertain or completely fed up.
Case Financial Times: How Ducati - the acme of Italian style, tradition and performance in motorcycle design - transformed from a company on the verge of bankruptcy to a successful company by engaging its customers.
What's the one resource you can't borrow invest or recover? Time. Lessons on guarding yours by Warren Buffett, Peter Drucker, and Charles Dickens.
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