December 07, 2022
How Competitive Benchmarking Misses the Mark - And What Anticipatory Leaders do Instead
Third-party perspective and comparing one's self to others is how we as human beings maintain a frame of reference regarding a goal we are working toward. Also known as...
November 30, 2022
The Dynamic Generation: How to Attract and Retain Gen Z Employees
Hard Trends have three distinct categories -- demographics, regulation, and technology -- each of which help you find certainty in an uncertain world. While all are vital,...
November 16, 2022
Take the Fear out of Digital Disruption: Anticipate and Embrace
Uncertainty. Anxiety. Fear.
To say you have never once felt these emotions in either your professional or personal life is a fallacy. This basic human instinct is a primordial...
November 09, 2022
5 Characteristics of Next-Level Leadership that may (Pleasantly) Surprise You
Many leadership principles have been around since the dawn of time, and those principles have served and still do serve us well. However, given the transformational, exponential...
November 02, 2022
When Surrounded By Exponential Growth, "Wait and See" Can Mean Missing An Opportunity
Patience is a virtue. Throughout much of childhood, our parents and guardians instilled in us to be patient or to wait calmly for our turn at something.
Having patience is an...
October 26, 2022
Beyond the Expected: Real-Life Business Uses for Augmented Reality
The phrase "You have got your head up in the clouds" is no longer an insult in today's world -- having your head in the clouds may be the best way forward in business! Of...
October 19, 2022
Are you Ready to use this Economic Downturn to Become Recession Proof?
Many across the United States are uneasy about what is in front of us economically in terms of the economic downturn. At the end of 2019, everything was on an upward trajectory...
October 12, 2022
Which is Stronger - Outside Pressure to Change? Or your Internal Drive to Transform?
There are two mindsets surrounding the concepts of transformation and change. First, there is fear that comes with transformation and change. The feeling of not having control...
October 05, 2022
Intelligent Technology Simplified: Smarter Machines = Smarter Humans
The ability of machines to communicate--and their increasing intelligence--is an exponentially accelerating trend spanning many industries. This technology trend is not slowing...
September 28, 2022
The "Great Resignation" Started with COVID-19, but Ends with a Future-Facing Culture
Competitive advantage is highly sought after in the professional world. To many, it represents career success, organizational growth, and even that ever-elusive change that CEOs...
September 14, 2022
Beyond Agile: Why It Pays To Be Anticipatory, Not Reactive
I know full well that people are generally averse to change of any kind. Life would just be simpler if everything that is working stayed the same, and these individuals also...
September 07, 2022
The Five-Generation Workforce: How Digital Tech Can Bring Boomers and Gen Z Together
From healthcare and manufacturing to marketing and engineering, we are still seeing nearly five different generations share the workforce across all industries. While the...