I was recently at a diversity roundtable hosted by Ryerson University’s Faculty of Science where they shared the interesting work of the Australian Human Rights Commission initiative, Male Champions of Change. The coalition of male business leaders works to leverage their influence to increase the number of female business leaders in Australia. This innovative idea struck […]
How to Create Sustainable Change U.S. companies alone spend $8 billion a year on diversity initiatives with lackluster results. Why lackluster? If the ultimate intent is to increase the percentage of women in leadership, then the numbers, moving at glacial speed, tend to speak for themselves. The Gender Intelligence Group recently conducted a detailed study […]
Information is dominating all facets of life today making it imperative for companies to understand and use relative information in their operations. It is a straightforward concept, and you should achieve it for your small or midsize company at a fair budget. However, the internet has created a platform where information is both accessed and […]
If you aren’t consistently getting the results you want–as an individual, as a leader, as a professional–perhaps you’re not as influential as you think you are. I realize that’s a bold statement just a few sentences into a book. After all, I don’t even know you. But what if I’m right? Why not stay with […]
YOUR Passion IS Your Purpose The moral of the story is this: If there’s something you’re really passionate about, you need to express it in your work. This book is an expression of the three items I am most passionate about: dance, psychology and business. When you must make business decisions or personal choices between […]
I love books. I love reading. There’s nothing quite like settling down to a good book. You know, if you have the time to sit down and read. If you do have a few days to catch up on your B2B summer reading list, make sure these are on it. Digital Sense: The Common Sense […]
Remember going to the carnival when you were younger, and playing the Whac-a-Mole game? There’s the smell of popcorn in the air, the whoosh and noise of the rides, loud music, laughter, and all kinds of other distractions, all while you focused on pounding the heck out of little plastic critters with a big rubber […]
Reinvention Defined We define Reinvention as: “Quantum Individual and Organizational Change Accelerated” For you and your organization to be successful, you must have the ability to change, pivot, and morph faster than the speed of the ever-changing external environment you operate within. And you must have the ability to accelerate the results that matter most […]
Lingua Franca, according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is “a common or commercial” language “among people of diverse” languages. With that definition in mind, what is the current international business Lingua Franca? English. English is the world’s commercial language. That is only natural, right? Wrong. With just some 350 million native speakers, the success and […]
Businesses do not always have to build all their products and content from scratch. Licensing provides a fantastic opportunity for businesses to collaborate with other businesses to build sophisticated products and services. Take Uber, for example. The core business of this popular ride-hailing app is to help passengers connect with cabs in their neighbourhood. To […]
Two of the most crucial aspects of a website is its performance and safety. Users want your website to load fast. A website that loads faster is preferred by Google. Safety is certainly not fun and you don’t want to lose your business because of a “hack attack” on your website! Here are 9 simple […]
The explosion of information is accelerating. This can be seen in our everyday use of emails, online searches, text messages, blog posts, and postings on Facebook and YouTube. The amount of data being created and captured is staggering. It is flooding corporate walls and is only getting worse as the next big explosion is already […]
In 1961 Henri Matisse’s masterpiece, “Le Bateau,” was hung in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since Matisse died in 1954, he was not available to see this particular piece displayed in one of the world’s most reputed and respected art institutions. Which is unfortunate when you consider that the curator of the […]
January is Mentoring Awareness Month We acquired “mentoring” from the literature of ancient Greece. In Homer’s epic The Odyssey, Odysseus was away from home fighting and journeying for 20 years. During that time, Telemachus, the son he left as a babe in arms, grew up under the supervision of Mentor, an old and trusted friend. When […]
If you could have one superpower to help your business grow, what would it be? I’ve often thought being able to read the mind of potential customers would be the single best superpower we could possess. We would be able to provide those products and/or services they wanted the most, without them having to ask. […]
This year’s Level Up Showcase will open at Toronto’s Design Exchange late tomorrow afternoon and close the same evening. For student game designers and developers at Ontario’s colleges and universities, it’s a day of excitement as they exhibit their teamwork to the public at large. Most of them are under 24, looking for jobs upon […]
The best B2B firms are flat and nimble. They do business at 21st century speeds. So why do they hamstring themselves by accepting payments through 20th-century legacy networks such as Visa and MasterCard that overcharge for their services? These networks and their associated processing partners require transaction charges of up to 3.5 percent, startup assessments, minimum […]
We all know about the B2B giants making their presence known in their respective fields, but are you staying updated on the major players and Fortune 500 firms not getting the media attention of the Intels, VMWares and Demandbases? B2B News Network presents our list of the top 10 B2B companies with soaring revenue and […]
As the second half of the 2010s approaches, a growing number of B2B firms and marketers are now sold on the concept of blogging as an effective marketing tactic. And numbers are there to prove them right: B2B companies using that tactic average 67 percent more leads than those that don’t jump on board the […]
Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Google and Microsoft recently released new devices, which means many B2B professionals may soon be looking to upgrade their devices. With new phones and major operating system updates, it’s time to think about what you can do to improve your smartphone experience. Smartphones have become the primary computing device for millions of […]
