Leading With Change + Innovation
“If you really want to know about business, you should refer to Scott Steinberg.” -Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group
As most keynote speakers can tell you, traditionally in business, we’ve been focused on building and maintaining competitive advantage—finding ways to outsmart, outmaneuver, and outperform the competition. But what if I told you that in today’s always-on, always-connected, globalized world, as we saw in the games industry, competition [...]
As futurists and trends experts, we're often asked: How can someone in an uncertain job landscape get moving when they’ve stalled in their career? In today's disruptive business environment, it is crucial that professionals be adaptable and willing to take on risks. However, it is critical that these [...]
We've heard about it coming for years, and now it's finally here: Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Yers (who are roughly 19-34 years of age at present) are now America's largest generation - bigger than the Boomers, even. What's more, not only have millions grown [...]
Sometimes, life throws you a curveball. Then it chases it with a couple left hooks, uppercuts, and gives you a good kick in the tender vittles while you’re still on the ground for good measure. Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out in life and [...]
Dear Business Leaders: YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG. The trick isn’t to avoid fear, it’s to embrace the discomfort, learn from it, and do the damn thing anyway… At least, it is if you’re a fan of growth, success, and staying relevant in an ever-changing world, or so new [...]
COPE or CYOD: Which mobile device policy should your business choose? It's a timely question in age where there are more cell phones and tablets than people on this planet - and one which our friends at IBM asked us to take a stab at answering in a [...]
Pop quiz: What’s the single most important trend in mobile devices sweeping the globe today? The hottest new thing in entertainment since Apple and its fleet of high-tech sensations first took pop culture by storm? What does the home of the future look like, and how soon do [...]
As futurist speakers and trends experts, we're frequently asked to weigh in on major socioeconomic trends impacting the globe on a grand scale - a.k.a. "megatrends" as it were. Throughout a series of several posts, we thought we'd highlight a number of these new megatrends which promise to [...]
Generations speakers make no bones about it - the prevalence of multiple age groups (Gen Y/Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z, etc.) in the workplace is a hot topic right now, with each age-sector strong individually. But when they work together, their combined efforts often produce prodigious results. For [...]
Questions are good, as we leadership speakers like to say around here: Without asking them, it's hard to get the answers you need. And given skyrocketing interest in crowdfunding, and the growing participation of industry celebrities, we can imagine that you've got more than a few you'd like [...]
