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"There is an undeniable wave cresting. The wave is a new breed of companies that are purpose-driven and cause-oriented. They are forward-thinking and intentional about doing good, connecting dreams to opportunities, and launching movements that make the world better. Their success and confidence come from defining their business as a cause. Their confidence attracts and unleashes talent, accelerates innovation, strengthens brand reputation, moves markets, allows the organization to move with speed and agility, stimulates investments, and creates long-term growth."
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"Simple goal-setting without tools to promote good decision making will not create wealth, and getting into the weeds of buying specific stocks is a diversion best avoided given your limited chances of beating the market. Creating wealth and financial security for yourself and your family is not derived from purchasing specific financial products, but by employing a holistic framework that results in good, consistent decision-making throughout your lifecycle of financial needs. As a professional investor and young professional trying to make sense of my own financial decision making, I realized along the way that many of the financial principles employed by successful companies are also relevant to personal financial planning and management."
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"Whatever the cause, the moment will come, and you will find your company in a shift from selling a lot of your current offering – let's call it X – and a little bit of something new called Y. Eventually, if your change strategy works, your company will sell a lot of Y and much less of the X legacy offering.
X and Y can be what you sell or how you sell. What you sell may be shifting to radically new products or to radically new services. How you sell may involve new types of customers, new types of buyers within existing customer organizations, or new, fundamentally different selling approaches.
Whatever your company's X and Y might be, how you respond to the need to shift will determine your personal success, that of your customers, and to a great extent that of your company.
Five key moments determine whether your sales transformation will be successful."
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"America's workplaces, even in our best-intentioned organizations, are riddled with bias against women leaders. As a result, women seeking to advance in careers—particularly careers in traditionally male fields—face both negative and agentic biases. The intersection of negative and agentic biases creates a double bind we call the 'Goldilocks Dilemma.'"
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"Traffic. If you're a commuter, it's your daily torture. If you run a business, it represents hair-pulling risk and cost. The U.S. economy suffers a $160 billion annual hit in lost productivity from traffic jams, while drivers in some major cities spend up to two work weeks stuck bumper to bumper. Long and congested commutes even correlate with higher rates of divorce, stress, obesity and chronic pain. But all of this pales in comparison to the one, big, dirty secret of traffic:
We know how to fix it."
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