You want a promotion with more responsibility and a higher salary that also positions you well for future growth. How do you get there? Which roles should you seek? Is it best to stay where you work now or jump to someplace else? What you’re looking for is a career GPS. Here are eight tips… Continue reading 8 Tips For Designing Your Career GPS
Imagine going into a restaurant today and not being able to order fresh vegetables and organic salads. We owe the fact that we can – and have been able to for the past 35 years – to one of the most remarkable people, Bill Galt, Founder of The Good Earth Restaurant chain, and the pioneer… Continue reading A Tribute to a True Innovator: Bill Galt, Pioneer of the Health Food Industry – and a Close Friend, Mentor and Colleague – Dies at 89
You’re sitting in a meeting and some guy pokes fun at the idea you just pitched, in a way that sounds like when your dad made you feel stupid as a kid. You feel your pulse quicken. At once angry and diminished, you feel yourself reverting to the 8-year old you that believed your dad.… Continue reading Talking To Yourself As Stress Control – It’s Make or Break
“Uh-oh. There she is. I know you’re here to take me out of my comfort zone. Give me a minute,” my boss at Chrysler’s Global Electric Motorcars would say when he would see me at his office door. Then, he would grab the arms of his chair, close his eyes and say, “Ok, I’m ready,”… Continue reading How To Sell Your Crazy Idea Internally
Mary Barra of GM, Ginni Rometty of IBM and Ursula Burns of Xerox are innovative women leaders who all managed to successfully navigate their careers into the elusive corporate CEO job, as only a measly 5.2% of women have done. Others, such as Marissa Meyer, former CEO of Yahoo! and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, were… Continue reading Want To Ramp Up Your Career? Try These Innovative Strategies
How do we make sense of a year like 2017? It’s filled with “no one would believe us if we put this in a script” moments – extreme highs and lows, no matter what your values – and each one met with a counterpoint from a different reality. None of these happen “out of… Continue reading The Overarching Lesson from a Historic, Intense Year of 2 Realities
Consider these social media statistics and their implications for big data for marketing: Every day, there are 500 million tweets, over 1.8 billion photos and videos shared on social media and 6,586,013,574 searches conducted online. Every minute on Facebook, 510,000 comments, 136,000 photos and 293,000 status updates are posted. And five-hundred million people use LinkedIn. Add website traffic and buying habits, and you have “big data.” Why… Continue reading Reputation Management: Big Data for Marketing (Preview)
As recent events have shown, a single negative tweet can turn into a PR crisis firestorm with lasting impact on a brand’s reputation. Companies that respond quickly and with savvy are more able to weather the storm, which is why social media investor relations can be so powerful. But you can only respond quickly if… Continue reading Social media investor relations: Friend or foe?
Fundamental to the success of combating global climate change and reducing dependence on oil is changing each person’s behavior. This includes moving a critical mass of people from traditional gas-powered vehicles to eco-friendly electric vehicles. This means we need to create high demand for electric cars. We will always need electricity for our refrigerators, computers,… Continue reading Taking Electric Cars Mainstream
Will the mass market drive electric cars? Joan Bryna Michelson looks at the evidence To break our dependence on gas-powered vehicles as soon as possible, electric vehicles are the leading alternative. “Electrification is a part of every automaker’s long term strategy, which is a good indication that it’s not a question of if, but rather… Continue reading Electric Vehicles: If they build it, will we come?
