Category: Governance & Leadership
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Using the Power of Questions to Stimulate Growth
September 19th, 2023
Here is how questions can stimulate the curiosity, critical thinking, and decision-making skills of others.
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4 Considerations as You Develop Your Company’s AI Strategy
August 1st, 2023
Here are four tips to consider as you develop your AI strategy.
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5 Tips for Building a Stronger Business in a Down Economy
June 13th, 2023
Over the past few years, pandemic stimulus and cheap money have driven record revenues and profits at many businesses, despite labor shortages and supply chain disruptions. However, recent Fed interest rate hikes increase the likelihood of an economic slowdown which threatens to stymie growth rates. At this point in the cycle, it is common for […]
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How to Retain Employees Through Servant Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
April 10th, 2023
We’ve all heard the expression, “People don’t leave companies, they leave managers.” People want to matter. People want to know that someone (especially their manager) cares about them and cares that they “showed up” for work today. Many Human Resources led programs and initiatives, including those related to DEI, are fundamentally aimed at ensuring that […]
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7 Tips to Jump Start Your Succession Planning Efforts
March 7th, 2023
Business leaders face new challenges every day, and addressing those challenges takes time. Yet time is a scarce resource and, as a result, long-term issues such as succession planning are often kicked to the side of the road, only to become a priority in an emergency. Over the 47 years Kreischer Miller has been in […]
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Where Do We Go from Here? Try Looking in the Rearview Mirror
November 15th, 2022
Change comes in all shapes and sizes—from slow and steady to sudden and seismic. While most leaders would prefer the former, we have seen a few of the latter over the past 25 years, including the internet boom of the late 1990s, the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the COVID pandemic. The internet boom heralded […]
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Four Tips to Help You Focus in a Distracting World
September 27th, 2022
Over the past 30 years, we have seen a dramatic change in the way we interact with others. I am old enough to remember when almost every interaction was either over the phone (landline, not mobile) or in person, because technologies like email did not exist. However, the introduction of email, text, chat, and other […]
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Results Matter, but the Process Matters More
August 9th, 2022
Business is competition, and like any form of competition, it’s hard not to look at the scoreboard. However, winning teams don’t simply show up on the field, cobble together a strategy, and win. They spend, days, months, and years working on their craft. They have clearly defined strategies and ensure that they have processes in […]
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Rethinking Talent Development in a Post-Pandemic World
June 20th, 2022
We recently brought our team of 40+ directors together for our first in-person offsite meeting since 2019. We spent the day talking about the incredible pool of talent we have at our firm, and what we need to do to help our professionals grow and assume leadership roles over the next decade. It was a […]
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4 Tips to Improve Your Company's Innovation Efforts
May 2nd, 2022
At the heart of every successful business is something simple: an idea. Somewhere along the line, a founder identified a unique way to solve a customer problem and a successful business was born. But one idea can only carry a business so far and, as companies grow, innovation needs to be part of a company’s […]