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Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World
Coronavirus has impacted the world at an unprecedented level. Companies need to act today in order to bounce back successfully in a post-corona marketplace. Executives ask themselves the following five strategic questions: 1. Which position can you achieve during and...
The Post-Coronavirus Unemployment Crisis Could Last for Years, Economists Say
Economists expect the U.S. to suffer its largest-ever contraction this quarter and the unemployment rate to soar to a post-Depression record, followed by a recovery that will be moderate and drawn out. Gross domestic product will plummet an annualized 25% from April...
The State Of Remote Work During COVID-19: Forrester’s Research
Remote Work Is Having Its Moment Here are some great resources by Forrester Research to help leadership teams resource their newly remote work teams. A guide to essential technology for remote and quarantined employees A home office checklist for newly remote workers...
The Digital Skills Gap and the Future of Jobs 2020 – The Fundamental Growth Mindset
I totally, 100% agree… We’ve reached a tipping point in the future of jobs 2020. Organizational roles are disappearing and being replaced by skillsets. The digital skills gap is growing. At its current pace, technology is outpacing human skills causing a gap in the...
3 Types Of Data That Help Leaders Assess and Boost Organizational Performance
Having data at-a-glance drives better decisions Here are three helpful classifications of data that your team should be organizing and analyzing 1 - Demand data Demand data reflects the volume of incoming work to an organization, business unit, or work team and is...
This 2-Year Google Study Says Your Team Will Be Successful If They Can Answer Yes to These 5 Questions
Some really smart people at Google studied 180 teams as part of "Project Aristotle," named after the philosopher's quote "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" It was a quest to find what discerns the very best, most successful teams Their work yielded an...
How Are Email Response Rates Trending
Financial services had the highest unique open rates at 32%, followed by automotive (26%) Some industries didn’t fare as well - While still having a relatively high unique open rate of 18%, travel/hospitality and travel services experienced a decrease of at least 5%...
The CFO’s Crucial Role in Digital Transformation
A digital tsunami is washing over big companies this year Between 2018 and 2021, companies worldwide will spend nearly $6 trillion on digital transformation initiatives For chief financial officers it means that sizable internal funding requests will fall on...
Skyrocketing teen e-cig use erases declines in youth tobacco use
The CDC shares troubling news on the tobacco control front when it comes to kids The rise in vaping was the single biggest jump in teen use of a tobacco product since 1999 Most commonly used by teens; 3 million or 21% of high school students and 570,000 or 5% of...
Theres one clear sign Jeff Bezos looks for to gauge how smart people are
Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of Amazon, has a strategy for identifying smart people The Amazon CEO shared his ideas about intelligence in a question-and-answer session with employees of Basecamp, a web-application company According to Bezos, smart people are always...
Beyond the Industrial Revolution Education Model – Training Skills for the 21st Century
A six-minute "must-watch" for every CEO, business leader, and parent The founder of online-learning not-for-profit Khan Academy shares what an era of automation and artificial intelligence means for education Read this as a webpage here https://mck.co/2Vtfkaq Online...
The 5-Hour Rule Used by Bill Gates, Jack Ma and Elon Musk
The most successful people on the planet are also the people likeliest to devote an hour a day to reading and learning During a five-year study of more than 200 self-made millionaires, Thomas Corley found that they don’t watch TV – Instead, an...
Apples iPhone installed base hits 900 million
Apple revealed that they have an installed base of 900 million iPhones -- the first time the company has revealed that statistic and with iPads and Apple Watches - there were 1.4 billion active iOS devices as of the end of 2018 Researchers have found the single most...
How Netflix changed entertainment — and where it’s headed | TedTalk
This is an awesome interview with a CEO whose team has completely changed the entertainment industry forever Netflix changed the world of entertainment -- first with DVD-by-mail, then with streaming media and then again with sensational original shows -- but not...
Here is the most affluent town in every state
Incomes vary widely across the United States. The American Community Survey is an annual survey run by the Census Bureau which includes questions about respondents' total household incomes The Census Bureau top-codes median household incomes, which means that for...


