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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

Let's Grow Leaders

Understand your core values and long-term vision to navigate the job market effectively and avoid the allure of superficial attractions. Get ready for a deep dive into creating environments where employee motivation thrives, and conflict dissipates. (01:32)

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Creative Ways to Market Your Business

Strategy Driven

Marketing your business to a wide variety of audiences and maximizing the number of people you will be reaching is undoubtedly one way of promoting success. However, as a business owner, you probably understand that the market is saturated with the traditional methods of branding and marketing a business. Social Media.

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Embrace Wild Thinking to Grow Your Business

Skip Prichard

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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How Food Marketing Will Change Post-Pandemic

Strategy Driven

To this end, we must rediscover our passion for marketing , as business owners. However, if it’s too bright it can also signify danger, i.e. red mushrooms in the wild. This is something that is normal in our everyday lives, but something that doesn’t get taken advantage of in our marketing campaigns.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. For sample competencies, feel free to read our white paper at www.sme-squared.com.

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How to grow sales on a downsized marketing budget

Strategy Driven

Businesses are often quick to slash marketing budgets in times of disruption, and the response to the recent economic upheaval has been no different. Global ad spend is predicted to fall by nearly $50 billion in 2020, with major organizations like Google cutting marketing budgets in half for the rest of the year.