The pandemic has changed our lives and how people feel Many business leaders are anxiously anticipating the vaccine solution toward “herd immunity” from COVID. The pandemic has disrupted all our...
What 2020 Taught Us About Managing Our Businesses I’ll bet you are more than ready to get past last year and move into the new one! The pandemic presented us with a set of challenges and...
Why You Should Never Forget Your Friends These COVID-driven times Many strong, lasting friendships are cultivated through business relationships. They surface and marinate. Sometimes resulting from...
The More Things Change … The More They Stay they Same! Back in the day, they called this a “Paper Fortune Cookie.” Later, we called it, “a Magic 8 Ball.” Today, we might call it an “algorithm.” As...
Buyers are smarter than you think During the past few decades of observing markets, I have learned that both business and consumer buyers are smarter than many marketers make them out to be....
You can have a great business idea, strategy, and crafty tactics to stimulate growth. However, if you do not change your culture, they will not work. Becoming more customer-centric is an ideal way...
From my observation of businesses and their leaders, from a 30,000 ft. level, I see many leaders connecting the dots. Regardless of the type of business, the pandemic is influencing changes to...
While there may be many enemies of success, here are a few that entrepreneurs and leaders of organizations often suffer from at various points in their career. — Alan Adler Fear Have...
In my previous column, I described, Why your favorite service organization is going out of business! I discussed why many are struggling to attract new members. What the biggest obstacles are, and...
Service organizations struggle to attract and retain members Virtually every service organization in the U.S. is struggling to attract and retain members. Scouts, Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Rotary clubs,...