This post is an aggregation of recent articles that I have collected over at Flipboard on my magazine there. It captures great sense making from others, in other words, great articles from other sites I thought worth capturing and sharing. Curating good articles is a discerning process and I’ve automated the delivery of it in WordPress using a Power Automate Flow to achieve this – more on that here.
The Bezos Blueprint: The Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman
Posted on December 15. Carmine Gallo is a columnist, keynote speaker, Harvard instructor and CEO communication coach. Gallo is also a former anchor and correspondent for …
Boost Your Customers’ Experience With This Operating Model
Posted on December 15. Adopting this model will help unite your customer-facing teams, so they can focus on providing a singular, cohesive experience to consumers, no matter where or how they buy. Customer experience has become one of the top priorities for organizations, especially as an increasing amount of business …
What Accenture Song’s behaviorial research tells us about brand loyalty and Web3 in 2023
Posted on December 15. Brands will have to become experts on their avid fans in 2023 to succeed. Consulting giant Accenture’s marketing/branding/advertising arm Accenture …
2023 will bring back the lost art of traditional marketing
Posted on December 15. Here are four marketing trends to prepare for in the coming year—and some advice on how to keep ahead of the competition. Digital marketing evolves as fast as technology itself—which is to say, fast. But the industry should see some especially rapid advances in 2023. Businesses must not only prepare …
Stop Looking for Your Authentic Self
Posted on December 15. The only authentic self that exists is the one that is present today—right this very second. Your actions and reactions right now reflect your entire …
Cultivating the Four Kinds of Creativity
Posted on December 14. In the decades to come, creativity will be key to doing most jobs well. In this article the authors offer a new typology that breaks creative thinking into four types: integration, or showing that two things that appear different are the same; splitting, or seeing how things that look the same are …
The Top 22 Business Books of 2022
Posted on December 14. 2022 has been an amazing year for books of all kinds, and business books are no exception. And yet with so many great titles, where do you start? At …
Study shows remote workers are becoming more, not less engaged
Posted on December 13. The big picture: The backlash against the rise of remote work was probably inevitable. Some who favor returning to offices claim that remote …
In Online Ed, Content Is No Longer King—Cohorts Are
Posted on December 12. We’re in a post-content age. It used to be that original educational content was scarce: a decade ago, such content was a major selling point for …
Co-working spaces limit creativity in the long run, finds new study
Posted on December 10. Co-working spaces can limit the creativity and innovation of new businesses, a study has found. These shared spaces, which have boomed in popularity …
How to Fix Collaboration Overload
Posted on December 10. Employees are drowning in excessive or misaligned goals set by too many external stakeholders with competing needs and demands. This causes workers to lose sight of their highest priorities and the deliverables that they are accountable for, and results in them falling into collaborative overload …
Charging up the Creative Battery
Posted on December 9. Some of history’s most renowned inventors used rather bizarre methods to nurture their genius. Nikola Tesla curled the toes on each of his feet 100 …
How do start-ups impact innovation?
Posted on December 8. Start-up businesses are at best the ultimate fertile ground for fearless blue-sky thinking, free from the shackles of heavy processes or calcified …
5 Ideas for Developing Real-World Thinking Skills
Posted on December 7. Not too long ago, pollution-monitoring satellites from NASA and the European Space Agency detected a significant decrease in nitrogen dioxide levels …
This Productivity Killer is Draining Workplace Efficiency. Here’s How to Fix It
Posted on December 6. Forget Zoom fatigue. The problem is tool fatigue. Meet context-switching: the force behind your team’s draining productivity, focus, and mental health. The phrase, “there’s an app for that,” has become so commonplace it’s meme-worthy. In our personal lives, apps can scream for us, call for us and …
Value orchestration is the operating model for a successful business transformation
Posted on December 6. Future fit firms drive growth by thinking and working differently with platforms and co-innovation partners. It’s maddening. You plan a game-changing …
To have better meetings, toss out your slides and focus on collaboration
Posted on December 5. “I don’t think this meeting will take that long,” your teammate says. If you’ve ever heard this phrase, you can be pretty certain that two things are …