There has been a lot of debate recently on whether artificial intelligence (AI) is going to take over the world. … More
Category: Leadership
Why the intersection of Social Media and AI signals both – promise & peril for Marketers
It’s the classic yin and yang of marketing: Over the last decade, social media empowered brands to infinitely scale – … More
The personalized customer experience at scale is the on ramp to smart, effective digital strategy. Marketers should take note.
Marketing Expert John Ellett (Forbes Columnist) and I recently discussed the findings from an SAP Digital Executive Transformation Study conducted in … More
How to Become an Authentic Leader in the Digital Era
Maintaining integrity depends on knowing, doing and being — all in ways that enable us to evolve into our true self.
Which burger would you prefer to eat?
One that says it has 75% less fat or an identical one that says it has 25% fat. Most would … More
Why the Lowly Dandelion Is a Better Metaphor for Leaders than the Mighty Banyan
In my post in the Harvard Business Review, I encourage leaders to act more like the dandelion, a small weed … More
The seductive illusion of choice
“You can have any car you want, as long as it is black” – Henry Ford These famous words by … More
5 behaviors of Great Simplifiers
What separates the human species from others is that we have a strong desire to create, compete and change.
For organizations, change is the catalyst to progress and growth, but often comes with a hidden cost. Complexity.
Lead with your ideas, not with your title
In December, an article published in Nature described a new advanced alloy. Combining magnesium with ceramic silicon carbide nanoparticles, a team from UCLA created a new material that is lighter and stronger than any we’ve known before, opening up the potential for rethinking our next generation aircrafts, cars, space travel, electronics and bio-medical devices.
Reading about the breakthrough made me think that the greatest leaders are in fact, HUMAN advanced alloys. Their combination of intelligence, curiosity, and emotional quotients make them especially strong, quick, and resilient in helping lead teams and organizations in discovering untapped potential and ideas.
Are we becoming Information Rich, but Knowledge Poor
The echo chamber is one of the more surprising evolutions of our connected age. It is defined as a virtual digital-social arena which enables anyone with to present and amplify their views with other like-minded individuals without obstruction. Within this chamber, continuous repetition of these ideas bounce off of and reinforce each other at an exponential pace. The amplitude of the echo grows drowning out non-conforming or dissenting views, tending toward creating a single, potentially polarizing point of view about a specific issue or a topic.
