Mindsets
How 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 MoreWhat Happens Next and New Opportunities Offer Growth! – Linda Bernardi & Ricky Kalmon
Linda Bernardi: Two weeks ago, I had the absolute pleasure to be a guest on Ricky Kalmon’s podcast, Amplify Your Mindset. Our discussion centered around ‘influence’ in leadership and mindsets. Leaders can lead with position and power, but how do you achieve the ‘influence-factor’ and how can leaders lead, while at the same time influencing mindsets and…
Read MoreChatham House Primer: The Internet of Things
The phrase the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) has become synonymous with the next stage of humankind’s economic advancement. But what exactly is the IoT and why might it be so important? Linda Bernardi explains how the introduction of so-called ‘smart’ objects – from phones and cars to kettles and domestic central heating systems – might…
Read MoreThe Shrinking Talent Pool in US Technology Companies
Shrinking talent pool in the US Tech companies: The immigration ban is not only effecting people traveling from the 6 countries to the US but is having serious negative ramifications about the culture we are creating and representing to the world. I was at the top technical university in Germany last week and met with…
Read MoreDisrupting The Hiring Process AND HR – The Beautiful ART of HR!
I wanted to share these thoughts with you. A major HR disruption is way overdue and I found this to be a good article to start our discussion. Whenever I have hired staff, either as a founder of a startup or as an executive working with my HR departments, I have viewed the hiring process as a…
Read MoreThe Me! Economy™: Digital Transformation: From B-to-C to B-to-ME!™
With the advent of Internet commerce and Internet marketing over the last few decades, goods and services became available via B-to-C (business-to-consumer) and at times Bto-B-to-C. Historically, the goal has been to reach the right consumers and offer the desired products to grow revenues. However, we are on the cusp of a new era of…
Read MoreYou’re Either a Technology Business or You’re Out of Business
This article is brought to you by Linda and Braden Kelley. Collectively, we have over 30 years of experience working with large, global multi-disciplinary enterprises. We write this with care and passion as we want your enterprises to succeed. We would love to hear your thoughts. Even in 2014, there are business sectors who feel…
Read MoreFive Things That Great VC’s Do = Five Things That Great CEO’s Should Do?
Focus, reducing redundancy, avoiding pointless procedures, better utilization of time are equally applicable to enterprises as they are to start-ups. And, to VC’s as they are to CEO’s. I like the following article recently on TechCrunch- 5 Great Things That VCs Do because it: Cuts through the chase Holds people accountable for the important things…
Read MoreChange and Large Enterprises
This Financial Times article by Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder of SAP caught my eye yesterday, while I was thinking deeply about the complications (difficulties) of executing ‘change’ in large enterprises. Fact: SAP is about as rigid of a company as you can imagine, and HANA, the in-memory-database concept which SAP introduced a few years ago, represents…
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