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The Cultural Barriers To Scale

Client Story: Making Essential Workers Part of the Mission

ChatGPT’s Conversational Technology Will Change the Way Businesses Operate

Why the strategy that got you here won’t get you there

Six Ways To Use Blockchain

Webinar: Trends for 2023 and beyond

Why We’re Wrong About Labor Productivity

Why Fusion Energy Is a Game Changer

Apple Tells Its Story Through 2 Voices. How Your Company Can Do the Same

Social trends for 2023 and beyond

Economic trends for 2023 and beyond

Ecological trends for 2023 and beyond

Technology trends for 2023 and beyond

How To Leverage Strategy In The War For Talent

The 10 Essentials of Scalability

Financial Services Case Study II

Why This Recession Will Be Different From Any Other

How To Pass On Price Increases Without Alienating Customers

Mergers & Acquisitions Trends for 2022

The Collision of Strategy and Agility

Why inflation can be an opportunity

Why digital transformation is a matter of survival

How To Prepare For The Dire Consequences Of U.S. Debt

Use This 3-Step Process to Develop Meaningful OKRs

How To Leverage Digital Transformation For Competitive Advantage

5 Mega-Trends That Will Shape the Next 10 Years

Trends facing business in 2022 and beyond

Economic Trends Facing Business in 2022 and Beyond

Ecological Trends Facing Business in 2022 and Beyond

Technology Trends Facing Business in 2022 and Beyond

Social Trends Facing Business in 2022 and Beyond

Why the Labor Shortage Will Only Get Worse

Seven Keys Of Dynamic Pricing

How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers

Five Secrets To Finding Talent

How to Prepare for What’s Next for the U.S. Economy

The New Formula for Recruiting and Retaining Talent

SaaS Companies Are Taking Over the World: What We Can All Learn From Them

Does Culture Really Eat Strategy For Lunch?

How Conflict Can Inspire Innovation

The Failure of Government and Business, and How to Fix It

5 Things That Covid-19 Has Changed Forever

10 Ways to Leverage Digital Transformation in 2021

Five Essential Habits Of Successful CEOs

Why Elders Still Matter: How They Can Improve Your Company

How Covid-19 Changed Culture And What We’re Going To Do About It

The Blended Office Of The Future

What We Can Learn From The Sharks About Marketing

How To Pivot In A Time Of Crisis

How To Survive In An Age Of Consolidation

Seven Steps For Successful CRM Implementation

Sales And Marketing Is Completely Broken. Here’s How We’re Going To Fix It

Ten Strategies Silicon Valley Companies Use To Change The World

How decision making has changed forever

2021 M&A trends: Reshuffling the deck

What to spend on marketing in 2021: A story of a digital revolution

10 steps to building a killer business strategy you can execute flawlessly

Trends report: 6 strategy considerations for a new world

10 Ways To Keep The Customers You Already Have

Sales Recruiting

21 Ways to Differentiate Any Brand

Strategy Brief: Value Proposition

Strategy Brief: Key Performance Indicators

Strategy Brief: Attack on the Edge

The Future of Work in America by Marc Emmer

Technology & Engineering Case Study

Financial Services Case Study I

Manufacturing and Distribution Case Study

Construction Case Study

The 8 Steps to Being an Employer of Choice

How to Use Trust to Separate Your Business from the Competition

The Failure of Government and Business, and How to Fix It

Strategy Brief: Why Is Strategy So Hard?

Consumer Goods, Food and Retail Case Study

What to spend on marketing in 2021: A story of a digital revolution

Strategy Brief: Alignment

Strategy Brief: How to Create a Culture

Strategy Brief: Transformation

Strategy Brief: Barriers to Scale

Strategy Brief: Entering New Markets

10 Ways to Leverage Digital Transformation in 2021

Trends Facing Businesses in 2021 and Beyond

Economic trends facing business in 2021 and beyond

Technology trends facing business in 2021 and beyond

Social trends facing business in 2021 and beyond

Ecological trends facing business in 2021 and beyond

9 key ways to gather and report useful KPIs

The Future of Work in America

9 key ways to gather and report useful KPIs

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How to Run a Global Virtual Strategy Session

5 Things That Covid-19 Has Changed Forever

The Solution: How Business Can Help Rebuild

The Scorecard Guide

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Where Do We Go From Here? 3 Economic Scenarios ­­­

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SBA Loans: What You Need to Know

How to Protect Your Business from Coronavirus

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What To Spend on Marketing in 2020

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10 Business Impacts of the Coronavirus

Kobe Bryant’s Superpower

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How Trader Joe’s Built an Iconic Brand Through Employee Engagement

How to Emulate Tesla’s Success (While Avoiding Its Costly Mistakes)

4 Ways Big Companies Are Leveraging AI for Competitive Advantage

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Ecological Trends Impacting Business in 2020 and Beyond

Social trends 2020

Social Trends Impacting Business in 2020 and Beyond

political trends 2020

Political Trends Impacting Business in 2020 and Beyond

economic trends 2020

Economic Trends Impacting Business in 2020 and Beyond

Technological Trends Impacting Business in 2020 and Beyond

Successful Entrepreneurs Who Scale Their Companies Have These 5 Traits

10 Inventive Ways To Attract New Talent

3 Keys to Building a Smart Acquisition Strategy for Your Company

5 Ways to Sell More to the Customers You Already Have

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The Revolutionary Business Model of Freedom

The Growth Portfolio

7 Business Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Two College Dropouts

7 Buying Behaviors of Small Businesses

Why We’re Wrong About Millennials

The 5 Most Common Mistakes When Trying to Scale a Company

Pricing Strategy

After Launching Google and Intel, This Tech Pioneer Shares His Secret to Success

10 Steps to Becoming an Elite Salesperson

How to Ditch Your Email and Be More Productive

The Five Elements of Unique Brands

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The 1 Trait That Made Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Rich

All Successful Entrepreneurs Who Scale Their Companies Have These 5 Traits

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The Tried and True Formula for a Successful Product Launch

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Amazon’s 7 Strategies for World Domination

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7 Lessons Learned from the New England Patriots

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The 7-Step Formula For Successfully Moving Your Business to Ecommerce

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How to Use Cloud-Based Technologies to Build a Killer Platform

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12 Ways to Make Your Brand Unique in a Sea of Competition

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I Emailed Jeff Bezos and Actually Got a Response: A Lesson in Customer Service

The Value Chain Analysis

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5 Difficult Decisions Every Entrepreneur Needs to Make At Launch

10 steps to building a killer business strategy you can execute flawlessly

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This One Trait Will Make You A Better Leader

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Use Trust to Separate From the Pack

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Managing Your Company’s Social Currency

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How Companies Are Using Artificial Intelligence in 2018

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Are You Following Strategy or Blind Ambition?

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Use Pricing Strategy to Improve Your Bottom Line

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Social Proof Is the New Currency

Going Virtual

How Companies are Using AI for Competitive Advantage

Entrepreneurs Can Still Make 2018 The Best Year Ever

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The New Rules of Competition

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How Gamifying Your Business Can Improve your Bottom Line

The Three Stages of Innovation

Is It Time to Throw Out the HR Playbook?

Simple Steps for Creating Mission and Values Statements

Every Industry is Being Reshaped by Mega-Deals

Marc Emmer, Founder of Optimize Inc., Releases New Book, Momentum: How Companies Decide What to Do Next

The Silicon Valley Playbook

11 Keys to Preparing for the Exit

40 Days of Kindness

Social and Ecological Trends Affecting Business in 2018 and Beyond

Technology Trends Affecting Business in 2018 and Beyond

Economic Trends Affecting Business in 2018 and Beyond

Political Trends Affecting Business in 2018 and Beyond

Why I Still Hate Black Friday

What Should You Spend on Marketing in 2018?

Where Agility and Planning Meet

Why Everyone is Afraid of Amazon

Do You Have Accountability In Your Organization?

Cascading accountability throughout your organization

Is Going Global Worth the Risk?

Is Branding Dead?

Premium Pricing is Alive and Well

How to Make Decisions About Growing Your Business

The Technology Inflection Point

How Great Executives Make Transparent Decisions

Amazon Buys Whole Foods: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

Are You Positioned as an Expert?

How To Make Decisions About Outsourcing

The Entrepreneur’s Dilemma

The Business Strategy of a Market Leader

How Vertical Integration Works for Companies Big and Small

The New Business Model for Old Musicians

When Good is the Enemy of Great

Are You Wrong About Digital Marketing?

Role of the CEO in Strategic Planning

No Strategic Plan Survives its Collision with Reality

Do You Have the Humility to Plan?

Understanding the Technology Hype Cycle

The B2B Value Pyramid

Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part V: Technology Trends

Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part IV: Ecological Trends

Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part III: Political Trends

Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part II: Social Trends

Market Forces Impacting Our World in 2017, Part I: The Economy

The Benefits of Measuring True Costs

A Framework for Competitive Advantage

The Problem with Agile

Sharing Economy

What Anti-Trust?

The U.S. Economy: What’s Next?

Foxconn Robots

The Robots Are Here

8 Steps for Succession

The Next Flashpoint

The Cost of Free Trade

Inflation and the Price of Tomatoes

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Strategy & Execution: Creating a New Muscle

Who knows what your Company is worth?

The Enemy Within

Are you Getting Results…or Stories?

Hiring

Hiring: Build it or Buy It?

China Meltdown: I Hate to Say I Told You So

Market Forces Impacting Our World: Political Trends for 2016

Market Forces Impacting Our World – Social Trends for 2016

Market Forces Impacting Our World – Technology Trends for 2016

Market Forces Impacting Our World – Economic Trends for 2016

Is Your Head in the Cloud?

The Key to Prosperity is Closing the Dependency Gap

The Disruptive Nature of Variable Pricing

Are All of Your Eggs in One Basket?

The Global Economy on Shaky Ground: Is the Party Over?

Hiring Millennials on Their Terms

The Recovery-Less Recovery

Making Your Own Breaks

Managing from the Inside Out

Performance Management: Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater!

The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be

5 Steps for Employers in Crisis

The Profession of Management

Innovation: Size Is No Excuse

How to Deliver Sustainable Value

Market Forces Shaping our World in 2015: Ecological and Social Trends

Market Forces Shaping our World in 2015: Political Trends

Market Forces Shaping our World in 2015: Technology Trends

Market Forces Shaping our World in 2015: Economic Trends

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