Leadership Xpressions
Blurred Lines Creating FOMO

Blurred Lines Creating FOMO

The barrier between work and life has gone away, primarily with the smart phone. The average US worker spends 25% of the day reading/answering emails (Source: Deloitte), and this is happening at ...

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Stock Market

Stock Market

In the past 90 years, the US stock market has generated returns exceeding 9% annually. Yet, this growth has been irrational sometimes (fear and greed), as the US Stock prices grew twice as fast ...

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Hidden Penalty

Hidden Penalty

Companies need people on the inside who reflect the people they serve. There is a value proposition in having diversity of thought to provide better options to solve problems / get better ...

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Amazon's Whole Foods

Amazon's Whole Foods

John Mackey, a 25 year-old college dropout, started a small natural foods store in 1978 called SafeWay. Booted from his apartment for storing food there, he just lived in the store. There was no ...

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Failed Cross-Border Expansion

Failed Cross-Border Expansion

After many Canadians traveled to the US to shop at Target stores, the management team decided to expand into Canada. Short lived, it then closed 133 stores after estimating profitability would ...

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Who Gives You Medical Advice?

Who Gives You Medical Advice?

How do you program ethics into robots? Can you trust machines with moral decisions? How do you codify compassion or mercy? In hospitals, APACHE medical systems help determine the best treatments ...

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Robots' Impact on Inequality

Robots' Impact on Inequality

There are 1.7 million truckers in America, and another 1.7 million drivers of taxis, buses and delivery vehicles. This middle-class career that does not require a college degree is at risk. ...

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Kronos is a GPTW

Kronos is a GPTW

Kronos is a company that tries to improve every year to be “a great place to work (GPTW).”  There is no status quo – this year there are changes to benefits, moving to a ...

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Market Capitalization

Market Capitalization

There are many good companies; yet, I was surprised to see the differences in market capitalization when comparing technology stocks with old companies:      · ...

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Global Pivot

Global Pivot

Manufacturers did not display agility when global competition disrupted supply chains. Of the top 20 global chemical companies in 1990, 17 had disappeared by 2010. Dow survived by being able to ...

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