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May 13, 2025

High-quality service jobs and the advent of a new golden age?

As MIT’s Zeynep Ton has pointed out, the U.S. suffers from a deluge of bad jobs, many in the service sector. While some suggest trying to revive manufacturing as the basis for a solid middle… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

April 29, 2025

The Digital Deception Economy: How Bot Farms Distort Social Signals

In a digital environment, sentiment has become currency. How customers, investors, and the public feel about your content directly affects performance metrics, from revenues to reputation to stock price. But what happens when that sentiment… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

March 25, 2025

Have business books jumped the shark? The “peak book” hypothesis

Publishing a book used to be a rite of passage for would-be pundits, experts, speakers and more. Books once provided credibility, presence in the market and an audience for new ideas. But in an age… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

March 11, 2025

Interns! We have interns! Welcome to the tribe

As Garry Ridge, the former CEO of WD-40 says, in his wonderful book Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It, citing Sebastian Junger, “The earliest and most basic definition of community – of tribe – would be… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

February 25, 2025

The Benefits of Bureaucracy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Red Tape

Throughout much of human history, power was exercised through a system of patrimonialism, as the great sociologist Max Weber coined the term. Under patrimonialism, a leader exerts power without respect to formal rules and regulations,… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

February 6, 2025

Boggled by radically increased uncertainty? You are not alone

January 2025 Monthly Wrap Up   January is now in the rear-view mirror (gasp) and a new administration is in office in the United States.  45 executive orders and a massively disruptive freeze in federal… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

February 4, 2025

Is AI coming for your job? Depends on who you ask

Astonishingly, the age of AI introduced by the November, 2022 release of ChatGPT has been around long enough that we’re starting to build up what you can think of as conventional wisdom!  Most CEO’s calmly… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

January 21, 2025

Why the party’s over at Party City, but Build-A-Bear Workshop is Thriving

We’ve been talking about the retail apocalypse for quite some time now. And the sector sure has had its problems – from rapacious Private Equity investors who burdened their properties with debt, to customers wanting… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

January 14, 2025

Join me at the Conference Forbes declared one of the top 5 to attend this year- April 29-30 in Dublin

We’ve all been to conferences that are either a bunch of talking heads or even worse, panel after panel after panel without a lot of new insights or actionable ideas. Our team at The Reinvention… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

January 7, 2025

2025: Are you able to turn navigating uncertainty into an asset?

The coming year promises to be one in which long-held assumptions about how business works are going to be thoroughly upended. While this might seem threatening, historically, periods of uncertainty create unprecedented opportunities for those… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

December 20, 2024

2024 Year in Review: Surprising ways human ingenuity thrives through inflections

There is no shortage of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to go around.  As Futurist Amy Webb points out in her 2024 SXSW talk, we’re in the midst of a “supercycle” – one of those… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

November 26, 2024

Escaping the outrage machine – Is Bluesky becoming a thing?

As my Thought Sparks guest Steven Brill points out, absence of accountability for content posted on social media sites, plus algorithms that favor content likely to attract eyeballs have led to an often-toxic mix of… Read more »

Filed Under: Articles, Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Innovation, Insights and ideas, Leadership, Seeing Around Corners, Thought Sparks

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