If disruption is on everyone’s lips and headlines many of today’s business conferences, the reality is that very few companies are really fully leveraging the disruptive forces in a way that they will succeed in a durable manner. That’s in part because of the changing...
Jane, founder and president of a six-year-old startup, looked out her office window as the bustling people passed by, all frowning with their heads furrowed in their smartphone and ears plugged in wirelessly. “How am I going to get the new launch message out to the...
When Caleb and I wrote Futureproof, we came up with a model for helping to implement change. For each force in Futureproof, we created a small action plan for individuals to get started on their transformation. The model is called a Slice of a PIE: Personal Internal...
At a recent and jovial countryside lunch, I landed on a new word that I’d not come across before: a passionist. [To be clear, we were not talking about a Roman Catholic Passionist.] To be a passionist we reasoned would be someone with a strong passion. I loved...
The prospects and possibilities of self-publishing are entirely fascinating. Now that I have written and published three different ways, I can conclusively say that none is perfect. And there’s no magic beyond hard work (and cash) in all cases. Moreover,...