Culture
Do Smartphones Ruin Our Memory Capacity?
I make a point to remember dates, phone numbers, membership numbers, and addresses. I constantly practice and make a point of remembering dates maybe 3-4 months out. I find that if I don’t do this constantly my brain slows down. Friends and colleagues often ask me… “Why?” They tell me that they no longer remember even their…
Read MoreHow is the Evolving Virtual Work Environment Impacting You?
Have you heard folks say, “Boy things are great! We are super-connected by Zoom”? If this is true, then why is the Great Resignation happening? The truth is: being on Zoom is not the same as being truly engaged. Today like never before, later stage Millennials and Gen Xers are walking out in the millions.…
Read MoreCompanies Struggle with Building Vibrant Cultures of Innovation!
Disruption and innovation are a MUST, not an option, especially today. I have been working with companies across all sectors for the last 15 years and my book ProVoke talks about the importance of disruption in order to enable innovation. My motto for the last two decades has been: Disrupt | Innovate | Lead Fact:…
Read MoreGAMING & YOU: Facts Not Fiction!
These facts about gaming have massive consequences on: • What programs universities will be focused on teaching • How the world of computing will evolve • Major hardware/software revenues • Impact on chip manufacturing • And much more Imagine the following: 1) In 2019 over $152B was spent on gaming worldwide 2) No, teenagers are…
Read MoreWhy Zoom Won and Skype Lost
Skype has been around for decades. Pre-Pandemic, Skype was a global standard. Microsoft had high hopes when they purchased Skype at a very high price in 2011. Around that time and in the coming years, some had heard of Zoom, and there were many other competitors as well. Let’s remember that Skype as a Microsoft…
Read MoreCan Airlines Survive the Worst Year in Airline History?
Even with a COVID 19 vaccine looming in the future, it will be a long time before we will be traveling in masses for client meetings, go to large gatherings, or see millions of travelers take trips around the globe. I have taken five trips in the last month and flown mostly empty planes. The…
Read MoreTech-Jumpers: New Norm Or Rare?
I am coining the term Tech-Jumpers to mean the following: The emerging phenomenon of the last few years wherein employees in tech companies ‘jump’ jobs like it were nothing. This year Amazon, next year Microsoft, the following Google and then Facebook, and the journey continues. It used to be employers and employees took pride in…
Read MoreiPhone 11: A Culture-Maker!
This is so hard to imagine. While the iPhone 11 was announced this week in a very Apple-rock the world-debut, people who purchased their iPhone 10 for over $1000 only a few months ago are ready to dump 10 for 11… the main reason: Not because of any critical phone feature but rather a 3…
Read MoreLess than 5% of Fortune 500 Companies with Women CEOs
WOW- less than 4.8 percent Fortune 500 companies run by women CEOs! It is 2018 and I am baffled that with Indra Nooyi’s departure soon from Pepsi, that only 4.5% of Fortune 500 companies will be run by women CEO’s. This is unacceptably dismal. We have not come far at all. Only 23 out of…
Read MoreNews Alert: Microsoft and Women!
As I went to my meetings last week, the talk in Seattle was all about the breaking news in the Seattle Times about the low and falling number of women at Microsoft—and a culture that discourages women from staying. I suggest everyone give it a read: ‘I felt so alone’: What women at Microsoft face,…
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