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Zoom’s Return-To-Office Could Doom The Company
Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
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The Power of Weird
Does blending in with the pack risk killing my business? Is business as usual a safe approach right now? At a time of uncertainty, in a cost-of-living crisis, and with consumer confidence faltering, these are questions increasingly being asked – about brands and the values and cultures, purposes and objectives…
A Look Through The GC Index
Our focus is to unlock the power of business and organizations to have a positive impact in the world, via their people. So we love using The GC Index, a unique tool for identifying and developing individual contributions to collective impact. We’ve been reviewing each form of contribution, or proclivity,…
Amazon Starts The Holiday Season With A Nostalgic Campaign, Amid More FTC Charges
This is the published version of Forbes' CMO newsletter, which offers the latest news for chief marketing officers and other messaging-focused leaders. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. There’s just 47 shopping days until Christmas, and according to new data from Attest, a great deal…
New Hampshire Is Contemplating A New Schooling Model. Why The Odds Are Not In Their Favor
The state of New Hampshire is contemplating a shift to competency based learning. As reported by Amanda Gokee for the Boston Glode, the shift is facing pushback from many educators. The pushback is not surprising. It has only been five years since Maine gave up their own statewide CBL initiative…
Chamberlain Shutting The Door On MyQ Garage API Access Reminds How Smart Home Tech Empowers Everyone
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy reported for The Verge on Wednesday that Chamberlain, maker of the popular MyQ connected garage controllers, announced it would be shutting off “all unauthorized access” to the MyQ APIs. As Tuohy notes, this move breaks support for popular third-party software tools such as Homebridge and Home Assistant.…
Revenue Rises And Disney+ Adds 7 Million Subscribers
Disney may have faced more questions than any other major media conglomerate for its quarterly earnings report, with activist investor Nelson Peltz quietly planning his next move and Wall Street concerns touching nearly every part of the business, from the money-losing streaming arm to its long prosperous but now struggling…
Orka Co-Founders Ben Sun, Xinke Liu Talk Next Generation Hearing Aids In New Interview
Back in late January, I wrote about the Orka One, an AirPods-esque hearing aid developed by Ben Sun and his team at Orka. Sun, Orka’s co-founder and chief executive who previously worked at Apple on MacBook keyboards and trackpads, told me his company’s origin story traces back to 2017, when…
Wealth Of China’s 100 Richest On Forbes List Edges Down To $895 Billion
Nongfu Spring’s Zhong Shanshan retains No. 1 spot for third year in a row SINGAPORE (November 9, 2023) – The collective net worth of tycoons on the 2023 Forbes list of China’s 100 Richest edged down to US$895 billion from $907.1 billion last year. The complete list can be found…
A Governance Watchlist For Asset Managers And Activists
The Big Three’s engagement practices are arguably ineffective. I suggest that asset managers focus their engagement on the 245 firms in the S&P 1500 that have not beaten US treasuries over the last 10 years. Three threads In this piece, I want to integrate three threads that I have been…
Strategies For Maximizing Holiday Profits And Preventing Costly Returns
For many retailers, the holiday season will determine whether or not their year is a success. While forecasters are predicting a strong online holiday shopping season, nothing is ever guaranteed. Without the proper preparation to ensure success, retailers can encounter various obstacles, from marketing efforts falling short to costly returns…
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I Asked AI to Create a Plan for a Fake Company — The Results Blew Me Away, But Not in the Way You Might Think
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5 Crucial Challenges Startups Must Overcome
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