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The Portfolio Careerist Era, Part 1

Economic Sovereignty, Fractional Leadership, and the Unbundling of Modern Workforce Loyalty Word Count: 1,411 Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. The Unbundling of the Career For nearly a century, the corporate career was organized around a singular, linear proposition: an individual … Continue reading →

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Managing the Widest Age Gap in Workforce History, Part 4

Word Count: 1,865 Estimated Read Time: 7 ½ Min. Today’s corporate landscape is unlike any in the past.  Organizations are routinely operating across a 50-year age spread and it is no longer unusual to see an 82-year-old founding partner or … Continue reading →

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Managing the Widest Age Gap in Workforce History, Part 3

Institutionalizing C-Suite Intuition Before the Exit Word Count: 1,503 Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. Welcome to the Five-Generation Workplace.  For the first time in corporate history, organizations are routinely operating across a 50-year age spread.  It is no longer unusual … Continue reading →

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Intergenerational Management: Managing the Widest Age Gap in Workforce History with Diplomacy, Part 2

Resolving Real-World Friction Points Word Count: 1,470 Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. Today’s modern workforce spans six generations – the most in the history of the world.  Moreover, a number of workplace variables are drastically changing how we work, from … Continue reading →

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Intergenerational Management:  Managing the Widest Age Gap in Workforce History with Diplomacy, Part 1

From the Silent Gen to the Alpha Gen Word Count: 1,353 Estimated Read Time: 5 ½ Min. Look around at your next all-hands meeting.  You aren’t just looking at a room of colleagues; you are looking at a living timeline … Continue reading →

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Why Celebrating Watershed Moments in Business Matters, Part 2

Word Count: 1,700 Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. Most people watched the fireworks as the U.S. celebrated the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  It was a milestone event commemorating that 56 men – representing the … Continue reading →

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Why Celebrating Watershed Moments in Business Matters, Part 1

Word Count: 1,488 Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. With the United States’ historic 250th anniversary fresh on our minds, the nation finds itself engaged in a collective act of reflection. For two and a half centuries, the American experiment has … Continue reading →

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Competing for High Touch in a High Tech World, Part 3

How to Out-Human the Competition Word Count: 1,475 Estimated Read Time: 6 Min. No matter how advanced the machinery or computing, the ultimate currency of business is trust… and trust is a deeply human emotion.  The most high-tech AI tool … Continue reading →

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Competing for High Touch in a High Tech World, Part 2

The Operational Anatomy of High-Touch Word Count: 1,752 Estimated Read Time: 7 Min. It’s a catch-22.  Companies use tech to automate processes.  The goals are to reduce customer friction and reduce the cost of expensive person-to-person customer service.  Both are … Continue reading →

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Competing for High Touch in a High Tech World, Part 1

Why Unscalable, Deeply Personal Client Experience is the Only Way to Beat Automated Competitors In that relentless pursuit of operational scale, modern companies are increasingly migrating toward a “high-tech, low-touch” operational model.  The process is accelerating even faster thanks to … Continue reading →

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