Industry and career insights from Rishad Tobaccowala

To ensure great interactions individually or with teams, focus on leaving them with three things: Clarity. Belief. Energy.

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As digital platforms and tools proliferate, marketers must remember that the future of marketing is people—not just as consumers, users, and members, but as advocates and even as marketers.

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The Four Shifts underway have radical implications for business leaders. Rishad examines how Government, Education, and Business are facing radical change.

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During the past 1000 days, everybody in the world has gone through a social, health, government, business, and personal crisis. New technology breakthroughs and work behaviors have created secondary and tertiary shocks. Rishad lays out the Four Shifts that will revolutionize every aspect of society and business: Technology, Power, Boundary, and Mind.

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To herald the coming of a new year, Rishad compiles a series of meditations on time, its use, and its passage.

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Data is as important as electricity. No business or leader can survive without it. But just as no company differentiates itself through its use of electricity, data alone will rarely differentiate a company or leader. Rishad shares the 4Ps that will distinguish human business thinkers from AI.

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Recent advances in AI technology will make talent more important than ever. Every advance in technology places a premium on superior ability. It is not the technology that differentiates companies; it is the talent.

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Companies and teams grow when people grow. While some of this “growth” might be measured in financial metrics, and some in other quantitative measures, most growth is more about a “way” than a “what.” It’s about an internal shifting of priorities and perspectives rather than an external enhancement.

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Time is constantly passing. In the midst of the holiday season marked by gratitude and celebration, these three mental exercises will help cultivate a healthy appreciation for everything you have in the here and now.

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Companies used to talk about their people as family. In an age when people change jobs frequently, family no longer seems an appropriate term. But fostering community in the workplace is a powerful way to create shared meaning among colleagues.

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Rishad interviews Gill Whitty-Collins about her book, Why Men Win at Work, unpacks the challenges women face in earning corporate leadership, and questions whether remote work will create another forum for gender bias.

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In today’s digital age, data isn’t enough to make a strong argument. People remain analog, and need trust and intent to follow the data.

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Four rubrics for rethinking your sales pitch and crafting presentations that get your point across.

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People are increasingly living elastically in the way they shop, consume media, live, and work. They are stretching definitions and flexing and twisting.. The organizations that will thrive in the future must align with peoples’ new expectations and behaviors.

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While ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) remains important to companies, it is time to focus on a new ESG, which is far more focused, more measurable, more aligned with stakeholder value and more resonant with recent challenges: Employees, Society and Government.

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How the Six C’s of individual competence (Cognition, Creativity, Curiosity) and interpersonal connection (Collaborate, Communicate, Convince) are key for today’s leaders and teammates.

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Companies need more than different faces around the table, or even diversity in thinking. They need to ensure a diversity of voices that can speak truth to power—and be heard.

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In the face of declining population, companies need to focus on different forms of scale—and emphasize talent.

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Some believe joy is momentary, but the joy that comes with deep satisfaction and contentment endures.

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How Better Call Saul exemplifies the five facets of excellence.

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Bosses are out. Leaders, guides, coaches, mentors, role models, creators and builders are in.

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