STRATEGY IS BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS

Every business plan begins with a set of assumptions. It lays out a strategy that takes those assumptions as a given and proceeds to show how to achieve the company’s vision.

HOW TO STAY HONEST IN A DISHONEST WORK WORLD

05/2012 has been a bad month for corporate ethics. Alleged proprietary trading by J.P. Morgan Chase that resulted in multibillion-dollar losses came to light. Jamie Dimon, the bank’s CEO, agreed today to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on June 13, and to appear before a House panel later in the month.

BUILDING A BILLION-DOLLAR STARTUP

Ali Tamaseb, a founder turned venture capitalist at Data Collective VC, recently spent 300 hours gathering data on billion-dollar startups. He generated 100 charts exploring their history and outlined dozens of valuable insights--all in a quest to learn what billion-dollar startups look like at inception.

THE 5 SKILLS THAT INNOVATIVE LEADERS HAVE IN COMMON

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers.

TOP 5 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TRENDS FOR 2019

Over the past few years I have made the commitment to looking forward to the year ahead to predict some of the most significant digital transformation trends.

HOW TO BECOME A MORE DECISIVE LEADER

There is a pervasive myth in business that the best leaders are the ones that make the best decisions. However, recent studies have shown that this isn’t necessarily the case.

WHAT ARE KPIs? HOW TO USE KPIs?

For years organizations that have had what they thought were KPIs have not had the focus, adaptability, innovation, and profitability that they were seeking. KPIs themselves were mislabeled and misused. Examine a company with over 20 KPIs and you will find a lack of focus, lack of alignment, and underachievement. Some organizations try to manage with over 40 KPIs, many of which are not actually KPIs.

HOW TO PREDICT YOUR COMPETITOR'S NEXT MOVES

The rumor mill for the iPhone 4S began almost as soon as Apple released its iPhone 4. Better camera, faster processor, bigger screen, fire-proofing, cordless charging…leaps tall buildings in a single bound. The list goes on and on. We now know which of those predictions have come true.

SECRETS OF SUCCESS FROM INVESTOR DAYMOND JOHN

Daymond John started with $40 worth of fabric that he turned into hats. He added a whole lot of hustle, a slew of mistakes, grit, and determination, and he turned two twenties into a $6 billion urban street-wear brand, FUBU, and a position as an investor on the hit ABC show "Shark Tank."

HIGH-GROWTH FIRMS: FACTS, FICTION, AND POLICY OPTIONS FOR EMERGING ECONOMIES

Denis Medvedev, Arti Grover, and Ellen Olafsen (from World Bank Group) identify, policies to create jobs, promote entrepreneurship and growth are key priorities for many emerging economies. Designing and implementing reforms is particularly challenging as policy makers attempt to strike a balance across sectors, firm size and incentives that can sustain growth in a rapidly changing global economy.

LEADERS, DON’T MAKE THESE 5 MISTAKES

Raising money for your startup isn’t easy for everyone. In fact, early-stage funding is harder to do now than it ever has been, with seed deals dropping by nearly 50 percent, by some estimates, since 2014, with VCs focusing more on pushing capital to later-stage deals.