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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Jul 18, 2022 | Business Strategy
It was a great field trip through Copenhagen. Twenty of us piled into a bus for a business innovation tasting tour—complete with opportunities to open the doors of warehouse spaces, cool Nordic designed creative offices, inspiring alternative nooks and crannies of...
