by Steve Steele, Systems & Analytics Practice Leader Words of Wilson features a rotating panel of consultants from Bruce Wilson & Company, a landscape consulting firm. While 2020 was the year of transition to a more remote workforce, 2021 has been the year of reckoning when it comes to inflation. Everything costs more, in many
You’re sitting in an Executive Team meeting. The conversation turns to your customers. What thoughts do you have in your head? And are these the same as everyone else’s? I bet they aren’t. I ask this because I’ve been there. At ILM, we found ourselves with 500 customers. And when we met to discuss initiatives,
Are you sick of hearing about ‘The Great Resignation’? It’s everywhere. There’s constant doom and gloom around the dangers of losing good staff in podcasts, articles, and newspapers. I’ve been as guilty as the next person of using this term. And yet now, I’m starting to wonder. Is The Great Resignation really a stand-alone event
GREENVILLE, South Carolina – Robert Clinkenbeard, global entrepreneur and founder and CEO ofThe Radix Group, today announced Ten Percent, a program designed to support organizations and non-profits working towards a more sustainable future. “As a Scotsman and environmentalist, I’m proud that Scotland hosted the climate change conference, COP26, in Glasgow. The global conversation is an
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Robert Clinkenbeard, global entrepreneur and founder and CEO of The Radix Group, today announced Ten Percent, a program designed to support organizations and non-profits working towards a more sustainable future. “As a Scotsman and environmentalist, I’m proud that Scotland hosted the climate change conference, COP26, in Glasgow. The global conversation is an opportunity for me to lend
Everyone is talking about the War for Talent. If you are a C-Suite leader, it is highly likely that your top priority has been the same for the past decade: find and retain Top Talent. The “finding” of Top Talent has become increasingly difficult and the “retaining” of talent has become a Human Decathlon event.
We are in full swing in many sports seasons with the NFL, College football, MLB playoffs and NBA games starting this week. As you sit and watch any of these sporting events, do you ever ask yourself if you have a business executive team that could bring you home the Championship business trophy? Do you
By Homayoun Hatami and Liz Hilton Segel How leaders can adapt to a very different future. Over the course of the pandemic, businesses have largely—and often successfully—adapted to new ways of working. They’ve also embraced digitization and reorganized their supply chains. All of this has been necessary, but it will not be enough. To prepare
Simple question. Why do people buy your products or services? And not your competitors’? Do you have an immediate answer? Is it short and sweet? So often when we ask this question of our CEO clients, the answer is long and waffly. We’ll sit down with them at the start of our relationship and
In private equity, we’re always trying to find our “angle” on a deal. The reality is that at our scale ($50M+ EBITDA businesses), private markets are pretty efficient. You’re not going to grab an off-market deal before other firms have a chance to bid as well. The management teams/owners are all sophisticated, the deals are
