by Andrea Kates | May 24, 2023 | Business Strategy, Management
The most gripping leaders never make elevator pitches. They share stories about people. And they focus their message on what the audience cares about most. Last week was graduation weekend at MIT for a cohort of global leaders creating change in fintech, agtech,...
by Andrea Kates | Apr 29, 2023 | Management
Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan assistance company Frank, appeared in Court court over allegations she bought or invented email addresses to claim millions of users. 206,008 people this week read my LinkedIn post where I voiced a strong response to a New...
by Andrea Kates | Mar 27, 2023 | Business Strategy, Management
We need an emergency response discipline for business leaders. When a fire ignites, we’ve been taught how to react: Rescue, Alert, Confine, Extinguish. It’s been ingrained for years that we have 90 seconds to race into action. Today’s business environment presents...
by Andrea Kates | Feb 7, 2023 | Future of Work, Innovation
DALL·E generated digital art devil and priest Has all the hoopla about Chat GPT got you wondering, “Should I finally bring AI to work?” Or, is Artificial Intelligence in a hype cycle? How do you decide? AI has been like the boy who cried wolf. We kept hearing it...
by Andrea Kates | Jan 26, 2023 | Business Strategy, Innovation, Management
What would it look like for people you work with to be so all-in during the coming year, that they exceeded your wildest expectations? I revisited projects from last year and realized successful projects all had one thing in common: Behind every successful project...
by Andrea Kates | Jan 5, 2023 | Business Strategy, Innovation, Management
The problem with January is that we’re full of great expectations, but risk falling short if we get off to a bad start. As individuals, we surround ourselves with intentions, journals, vision boards, and resolutions. And we hope that the course we set will bring our...
by Andrea Kates | Dec 30, 2022 | Future of Work, Innovation, Management
I’m convinced that we have to stop leading strategy the traditional way. Focus on commitment – not consensus. Angela is one of the best leaders I know. Last month, right in the middle of planning the traditional, cookie cutter back-to-work strategy session, she...
by Andrea Kates | Dec 8, 2022 | Future of Work, Innovation, Management
It’s a tough call: Should we impose a mandate to bring our teams back to working in person or is there a better way? It’s been months since the in-person workplace was the only alternative. But too much has changed to simply put the Work Anywhere genie back into the...
by Andrea Kates | Aug 23, 2022 | Business Strategy, Innovation
One of the most overlooked questions in strategy Most corporate strategies, if they are developed well (and from our experience that’s a big IF), are great at giving a direction for a company’s efforts for the foreseeable future. In essence they are great at...
by Andrea Kates | Aug 18, 2022 | Future of Work
We Need a “Next” Mindset About Work If I can work from anywhere now, why would I work here with you? It was the first time I’d considered a question like that, stated so boldly. At the end of a job interview, I was leading a couple of months ago, I asked the candidate...
