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Compassionate Business Policies Pay Off
Environmental, social, and governance policies have come under heavy fire recently, with some large investors distancing themselves from the concept. But in practice, ESG principles can give companies, especially smaller ones, an edge over compet...
Can More Integrated Information Tech Alleviate MD Burnout?
Our healthcare system has a burnout problem: Doctors and nurses, bogged down by endless administrative tasks and the aftereffects of a global pandemic are dissatisfied and dropping out of the workforce.
But technology may ride to the...
Here's Why Your Ad Spend Is Failing On ROI
A recent study from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) raised eyebrows with its finding that there was more than $20 billion of "ad waste" in global programmatic advertising-almost a quarter of the total spend.
But by...
Wave of State Data Protection Laws Is a Gathering Compliance Nightmare
A patchwork of advancing data privacy bills across the nation is creating a figurative field of landmines waiting to explode. Indeed, consumer data privacy bills are flying through legislatures in red and blue states alike. The bills are as diver...
Make Your Training Programs Go Viral
You don’t have to bore your staff. Dramatically altering how your cohort embraces future training sessions is as simple as making them highly interactive and adaptable to the realities and practices of the workplace.
Fending Off The Next Social Media Blitz
Recent white-hot controversies have made it clear that companies can't simply explain their way out of a values conflict with their own customers and employees. That means they need to anchor their public identity in their core beliefs and prin...
What Content Creators Can Learn About Sound Design From Modern Hollywood Productions
Sound design is a top component of breakout Hollywood productions - note the original "Star Wars" and the recent "Top Gun: Maverick." The same should apply to video content creators - everyone from YouTubers to aspiring movie director...
Handling Credit Card Debt In An Age of Overspending
Overspending on credit cards is weighing on the American consumer as the cost of living continues to rise, making it a good time to consider personal strategies to keep those balances under control.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New Yor...
Alert fatigue pushes security analysts to the limit
Alert fatigue is a significant challenge for security officials in governments and organizations worldwide. Where the principal challenge in safeguarding operations and personnel used to be collecting sufficient actionable intelligence and data,...
Solving The Current Commercial Real Estate Crisis Will Take Private-Public Partnerships
The dark clouds over the commercial real estate market - and office buildings in particular - continue to gather as regional and community banks cut their loan exposure to the sector. Regional and community banks continue to dump commercial r...
How to Build a Company That Excels at Both Leading and Coaching - and Why It's Important
Companies, in an effort to be more efficient, are thinking twice about how many middle managers they need. And that makes it more important than ever to move from managing people to leading and coaching so they can do their jobs without the kind...
GENERATIVE AI-HOW MARKETERS CAN PROTOTYPE, EXPERIMENT AND LEARN QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY
Brands and agencies are asking what generative AI means for them. What can be automated? How can we create value? But as with any shiny new object, companies should proceed with caution.
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What If the Right Person for the Role Is a Bot? Accountability in the AI Age Takes Center Stage
Any company naturally aims to fill each role with the right person. But if AI and automation eventually replace more than a quarter of all current jobs, as one survey suggests, might the right "person" be a bot? And if that's the case, how...
Why Boards Are Missing The Mark On Succession
As the final season of the hit HBO show "Succession" drew to its recent close, the world of high-stakes corporate leadership changes became the obsession of millions. In reality, most succession stories involve boards larger than TV's Roy f...
Self Storage Is Riding High: Is This the Beginning, or the End?
The self-storage industry is booming, but is it sustainable? Our industry - I run a self-storage company - has been showing up in the financial press's headlines lately as investors and operators grow with Americans' desires to store their poss...
Invest Like the Rich: Are Direct Investments Right for You?
The wealthy have access to investments unavailable to the rest of us. But at least one type - direct investments - is now within reach.
Direct investments enable investors to take stakes in non-public companies whose shares don'...
Big Money Is Chasing Sports Collectibles: Investing Opportunity or Market Top?
When approaching the sports collectibles market as a potential investment strategy, it is imperative to enter with eyes wide open and invest only what yo...
Injecting Realism Into Your AI Threat Assessments
Cascading artificial intelligence advancements present an array of security traps for unsuspecting companies. The consequences of a successful attack are likely to be much more severe than an old-style phishing or hacking attack.
Gone...
Generative AI Has Changed the Calculus Around Corporate Risk Management
Generative artificial intelligence has been among the most impressive breakthroughs in years. But for corporate security chiefs, it's causing angst.
That's because for all its genius, generative AI - which can create human-leve...