Mon.Feb 05, 2018

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Declining Corporate Longevity

Small Business Labs

Innosight, an innovation consulting firm, recently released their  2018 Corporate Longevity Forecast: Creative Destruction is Accelerating.   This report forecasts continuing corporate turbulence and a reduction in the amount of time firms spend on the S&P 500 index. According to the forecast, by 2027 the average tenure on S&P 500 will be just 12 years, down from 24 years in 2016 and 33 years in 1964.   The reasons companies fall off the S&P 500 list vary.

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The Best Ways to Answer "Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?"

On The Job

"Where do you see yourself in five years?" This is a pretty standard interview question, but it's also often asked during performance reviews. Many people are a bit stumped by this, since they're not sure what they're doing this weekend, let alone five years from now. But one of the most important things you can do for your career is to always be prepared for such standard inquires.

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What to Know Before Subcontracting Your Project to a Freelancer

Small Business CEO

Subcontracting is a lucrative opportunity to scale your business up without incurring the overheads associated with it. A freelancer who executes all projects by herself may only be able to take on fifty or sixty hours of work each week. On the other hand, subcontracting these projects to other third party vendors can help her execute a larger number of projects.

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My Three Words for 2018 (and a Single Resolution)

Productivityist

There are several reasons why this post nearly didn’t get written. First, I don’t usually make resolutions to start off the year. Second, I don’t begin my year in January. I also don’t find yearlong resolutions to be helpful – there are numerous studies that outline how resolutions often don’t work. So this year after I went through the Yearly Words exercise – something I feature in my “anytime” annual planning program The NOW Year Action Plan Course – I decided to use the same three

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!