Google cloud boss Thomas Kurian is improving Google's cloud services.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Chart: These 6 Companies Control Much of U.S. Media
Traditional media giants are racing to consolidate in the face of tech industry disruption. Can they retain control of the medium and the message? Welcome to Hollywood, AT&T. The company that most people associate with mobile phones entered show business in June when a U.S.
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In the Wake of Brexit, Amsterdam Is the New London D
How a city less than a tenth of London’s size is becoming Europe’s unlikely financial powerhouse in the wake of Brexit.
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Saturday, December 28, 2019
Friday, December 27, 2019
Honeywell CEO’s Best Leadership Advice: “Don’t Always Follow the Crowd”
It’s well known that immigrants founded or lead a large percentage of U.S. businesses from Silicon Valley to Corporate America. Darius Adamczyk is one of them. He is Chairman and CEO of Honeywell (HON), one of the largest companies on the Fortune 500 at No. 77.
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
7 Olympic leadership lessons from Miracle
With Olympic fever gripping the UK, it seems a good time to revisit Miracle, the 2004 film that depicts one of the great Olympic underdog stories. I was only 11 during the 1980 Winter Olympics, but can still clearly recall the elation of the US ice hockey team following their stunning gold medal.
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Sunday, December 22, 2019
How to Get Disney+ on Your TV and Other Devices
Disney's new streaming service launches Tuesday, November 12 with over 500 movies and more than 7,500 episodes of TV content. Here's how to get Disney+ on your TV and devices.
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Saturday, December 21, 2019
About the Course
The lessons provide an opportunity for students to unlock the potential of living with gratitude. We would like to say thank you for this experience as it had such a positive impact! Ed Gerety's, Lessons in Leadership, provides teachers with easy to use multimedia lessons that engages students.
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Friday, December 13, 2019
Leadership Lessons is Product Management
Many authors, educators, founders, and executives have come on This is Product Management to reflect on their leadership successes and failures.
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Sunday, December 8, 2019
5 Leadership Lessons From A Female Car Racer
Risk and concentration management are just some of the useful lessons to apply at the workplace.
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How the Fortune Future 50 Identifies Companies With Long-Term Growth Potential
In the list's third edition, we’ve refined our proven formula for identifying the global businesses that are best positioned to outperform.
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Giving Workers Paid Time Off to Volunteer Will Help Your Company Succeed
Evidence of corporate giving is hard to miss, whether it's a billboard nailed to a Little League dugout, a foundation's logo on a ballet program or a sponsor shout-out in the credits of a public broadcast. Yet few businesses make full use of their community connections as a way inspire employees.
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Reflecting on Lessons in Leadership This Veteran's Day
Veteran’s Day is a time for us to honor those who served our country in the armed forces. It is a day that holds special meaning to me. As a cavalry officer in the United States Army, my experiences in both peacetime and combat shaped me as a person and a leader.
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
12 Experts Discuss The Difference Between Leadership And Influence
Leadership and influence are related (and even sometimes used interchangeably), but they’re not one and the same. If your goal is to become a leader and an influencer, understanding the difference is crucial.
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Ten Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah
Editor’s note: This is one of our most popular Leading Ideas articles. We present it again for our many new subscribers. The prophet Nehemiah provides modern day leaders a wonderful model of leadership.
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Amazon Prime Has More Than 100 Million U.S. Subscribers
Amazon Prime has reached an important milestone in the United States, according to a new study. The subscription service has surpassed the 100-million-subscriber mark and now has 101 million subscribers in the U.S., researcher Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) said in a study.
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The Secret History of the Lost Champagne Cellars Under the Brooklyn Bridge
In 1876, the owner of a Brooklyn wine shop had a unique cellar to store his inventory of Pol Roger, a French champagne famously favored by Winston Churchill.
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
Why global CEOs are still bullish on China
Multinational corporations from the U.S., Europe, Japan and Korea continue to pump billions of investment dollars into China despite its slowing economy and the protracted U.S.-China trade war. So says Bloomberg in a report this week noting that foreign direct investment into China rose nearly 3% in the first nine months of 2019 from a […]
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Friday, November 15, 2019
Woodstock 50 Lives On for Now. But Here’s How It All Unraveled
After what seemed like an inevitable cancellation, Woodstock 50 is still alive, though it’s moved south and barely has any of its ‘60s glory. The golden-anniversary celebration of the iconic music festival is now scheduled to take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Leadership Games and Activities
Upcoming SlideShare Loading in …5 × Leadership Games and Activities 2. Ask each person in the group to think of two true facts about themselves, and one lie. Each person in the group takes a turn telling the group their three items.
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5 LEADERSHIP LESSONS TO LEARN
Leadership is something that can be learnt as we can work at it and develop skills over time. Even the best leaders were not born with skills from day one. They too had to fail, fail and fail some more before they could become the leaders that they are recognised as today. And you are no different.
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5 leadership lessons for 2018
2017 laid the groundwork for a lot of change in IT. DevOps went mainstream as companies traded slow waterfall processes for business agility. Automation of routine IT tasks enabled leaders to refocus their teams on innovation.
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Don Quixote's Lessons for Leadership
A retired professor of business, education, political science, sociology, and psychology — not to mention the author of six books of poetry — James G. March recently turned his attention to film.
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Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela's Life
The first lesson is that it takes more than a single heroic leader at the top to change the trajectory of an institution, or a nation. The second lesson is that in leadership, character is always more important than strategy.
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Start Your Personal Growth Journey with John C. Maxwell.
You want to live a life that matters. You're ready to go the journey, but every new adventure needs a trustworthy guide. Everybody needs a friend to go with them and a mentor to show the way. Let's go the journey together. My friend, let me mentor you.
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
Firms can turn things around if they 'Boks' clever and learn leadership lessons from Rassie Erasmus
Aside from performing a tactical masterclass last Saturday in winning the Rugby World Cup, South Africa’s coach Rassie Erasmus also taught us some lessons about leadership that apply equally in business, suggests Joe Gill.
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3 Leadership Lessons Celebrity Chef Fabio Viviani Wished He Knew Before Becoming an Entrepreneur
You might recognize Fabio Viviani from Bravo TV’s Top Chef or Food Network’s Cutthroat Kitchen. Or, maybe you know him from appearances on shows like Good Morning America or The Rachael Ray Show.
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Amazon's '50 Percent Rule' Will Help You Avoid the 5 Biggest Interviewing and Hiring Mistakes
I speak internationally and can tell you that the number one issue on most clients' minds these days is how to hire the best talent. That's why Amazon's approach (and hiring rule they use) really caught my eye.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The Greatest Leadership Article I’ve Ever Read
Recently, my friend Carl got a new job with the task of quickly building a 600-person pharmaceutical sales team, and leading that team as the company enters a new therapeutic market. He’s an industry veteran who excels at strategy, execution and motivating his team.
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Leadership And Being Uncool
I have always loved the story of this naïve teenage journalist’s adventure and his relationship with his offbeat and curmudgeonly mentor.
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Malcolm Brogdon Proving Flourishing Leadership, NBA Abilities With Indiana Pacers, Hoops2O Charity
On a Wednesday night in Brooklyn, two major parts of Malcolm Brogdon’s life converged at Barclays Center. His new team, the Indiana Pacers, was winless on the young season going into the game against the Nets.
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Research Confirms What We All Suspected. Millennials in the Workplace Are Not That Different From Other Generations
Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists dubbed the "me, me, me generation." At least that's what the media has made us believe over the years.
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How I Overcame Imposter Syndrome, Learned to Delegate Like Crazy, and Became a Successful CEO
A longtime second-in-command, Climb Credit's Angela Ceresnie was used to being "the practical person" instead of the big-picture visionary. Then she agreed to step up.
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Gen Z Workers Have No Patience for Older Generations Dismissing Their Potential. Here's Their New Catchphrase
I'm not under 30 but I certainly know what it's like to feel overlooked and dismissed. I won't reveal any specifics, but I will go on record saying I am definitely not in the Gen Z age group.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Leadership lesson plan ideas
Snowball Games - Minute to win it style games with a winter theme. Great for an advent calendar activity for the family, for classroom parties, holiday events, or just a day of indoor fun.
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Leadership Lessons
We have to learn hard leadership lessons and develop our skills over time. That’s why we put together a collection of resources and leadership lessons.
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Why Your Employees Keep Giving You Wrong Information--and How to Help Them Get It Right
Dealing with bad news is one of the main responsibilities of a leader. Welcome to leadership. Most of my day is receiving bad news that needs my attention: Our publisher sets an unreasonable manuscript deadline, and I need to personally call the editor and negotiate an extension.
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Meet the Tiny Austin Company That Wants to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry With Its 3-D-Printed Homes
A white cowboy hat in hand and hair clinging to the sweat on his forehead, Jason Ballard paces around an 11 1/2-foot-tall 3-D printer named Vulcan II that stands on a slab of concrete atop a small hill.
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McDonald's Just Fired Its CEO. The Way McDonald's Announced the News Is Fascinating
News broke Sunday that McDonald's had fired its president and CEO, Steve Easterbrook, who had led the company for four years, and I'm struck by how McDonald's handled the announcement. There aren't many other details available.
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