Financial Health
A collection of essays covering the goal of improving the financial health of societies, the people in them, and other interests.
Most strategies stall because leaders plan yearly while product teams learn weekly. This playbook shows how a North-Star OKR, a quarterly Strategic-Learning Loop, and dual-track workflows convert sprint-level evidence into board-level capital decisions within 90 days.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for a while. The ability for machines – to perform complicated actions based off specific inputs with minimal human involvement – has helped us increase our standards of living and is the predominant reason…
Do businesses with a social mission perform better? Let’s look at how the Environment-Social-Governance ratings of companies affect their performance, talk about what we do/don’t know today and map out the trends that are shaping tomorrow’s businesses.
Before jumping into a cold lake, you ought to have a good reason otherwise you’re going to have trouble convincing people to do it with you. Take the the time to understand the benefits of Agile so you can know when it makes sense, when it does not and, most importantly, how to communicate said benefits.
There are many different functions within a company that require varying degrees of collaboration. Salespeople can often be independent agents selling products to a portfolio of clients while support and operations roles tend to require a bit more connection with the rest of the company. Product management might be the most inherently collaborative as it requires you to get features developed, supported by the entire team and used by customers. It is a role where you have to constantly check-in with the entire company, including and especially customers, to make sure that everyone is on the same page with the overall product direction.
Waves of transformation are happening, and the change is sandpaper dry. Blockchain represents a momentous change in how information is managed, and it will be just as, if not more impactful than cloud computing. The challenge is that understanding it requires consumers to learn about data, a conversation that they’re just getting ready for with all the commotion on how Facebook is sharing it and advertisers are infringing on privacy, and business leaders in different industries to wrap their heads around how their computer systems share data with their partners.
Ryan Guichon 