A Beautiful Competitive Mind
Gifted or a hopeless misfit? That was the defining dilemma of my entire childhood, adolescence, and young life. At a time when the spectrum of autism disorders wasn’t easily diagnosed or even talked...
View ArticleBattling Bias
Decision-making is one of the few variables that crosses all business functions, affects all companies regardless of size, and leads to success or failure wherever it is used. However, decision-making...
View ArticleA Digital Quick-Start Guide
What is the next big thing? Nobody really knows. Nevertheless, today’s companies are constantly under pressure to discover it. The digital space, of course, is rife with magic bullets to help them...
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Let’s Get Digitally Physical
As all athletes know, core fitness is a major key to success. It improves strength, balance, endurance, and stability, allowing competitors to realize their full potential and reduce the risk of...
View ArticleAnalyzing Alibaba’s Magic
Can any innovations come from China? Many influential people don’t think so. As Forbes contributor Edward Tse noted last year, when Joe Biden was vice-president of the United States, he was comfortable...
View ArticleComing Soon: The Conscious Store
It may seem counterintuitive—amid numerous store closings and B-mall demises—to consider the physical store of the future. After all, according to some estimates, the United States alone has a billion...
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Be Your Own Worst Enemy
Unprecedented uncertainty is forcing companies around the world to rethink their rulebooks as trade agreements are rewritten and technology drives industry-wide disruption. The good news is that new...
View ArticleTopple Your Monolith Before It Crumbles
With all due respect to Ronald Harry Coase, some of the Nobel Prize-winning British economist’s ideas about why firms exist have passed their best-before date. Decades ago, when other intellectuals...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind Big Data
Thanks to the promise of business analytics, seeing data as the new oil is all the rage these days, which is why something like 85 per cent of Fortune 500 companies are investing in big data...
View ArticleThe Value of Employment Counter Offers
Imagine you are at a garage sale and make a $40 offer on a chair with no price tag. The owner immediately responds with an enthusiastic “sold!” This occurrence is likely to cause you to ponder more...
View ArticleNeglecting the Motherload of Economic Stimulus
Economists do not agree on much. But nobody in the dismal science disputes the fact that economic growth is labour-force growth plus productivity growth. And since productivity is output per unit of...
View ArticleExamining Supply-Side Benefits of Virtual Teaching
With social distancing required to help flatten the curve of new COVID-19 infections, the business world has essentially moved online. This includes educators. And for many university faculty members...
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