Items Tagged with 'success'

First, consumers don’t buy products. They buy solutions. Assuming you provide a solution, the next challenge is convincing consumers your product is better at solving their problems than those made by your competition. We call this...

On a recent call with CMOs of small-to-mid-sized professional services firms, it was refreshing to hear that at least one company has been scooping up new business during the Covid-19 pandemic. Then again, that firm occupies a particular sweet spot for the current times — helping companies...

Imagine there was an activity that every CEO agreed was critical to maximizing their success and that almost none of them did. And imagine that this activity cost absolutely nothing, took just 10 to 15 minutes per day, and brought about obvious and even immediate benefits. Now, imagine...

Your days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. A study from Columbia University found that we’re bogged down by a good 70 decisions a day. Some decisions are minor, such as...

Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)'s purpose is to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential by enabling life-enhancing connections, designing shared experiences, and providing collaborative learning. A total of 233 EO-member companies were named to the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest growing, privately held companies. We asked these elite leaders about the habits that impact their success. Here's what they shared...

Building great leaders and high-performing teams is more than an exercise of recruiting people with the right credentials and experience for success. And, it takes more than just assembling a laundry list of attributes that you expect your team to demonstrate...

With a national dialogue swirling around equity and inclusion, the data show that corporate America is still struggling with the basics of diversity and representation. According to a recently published McKinsey report, only 15 percent of the executive teams they surveyed in the United States and the United Kingdom had...

Tim Cook gets up at 3.45 a.m. Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi gets up at 4 a.m. Disney CEO Bob Iger is a 4.30 kind of guy. Jack Dorsey sleeps in until 5.30. So does my buddy...

Seven years ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook was at his alma mater Duke, when a student asked him for advice on whether students should listen to their professors. Cook's answer provides key insight into how he thinks--and how...