Mark, a god, roamed on Earth, looking for fun. He happened to read a number of novels and fell in love with reading and writing. He fancied that he could write and publish a book of his own. …

Do you feel you and your team are trudging in the mud? You know there’s an issue to be addressed, but you can’t find the fix, or worse — you may be working on the wrong problem based on old assumptions and habits. …

With the trend toward agile being all the rage now in the corporate world, agile jargons are also becoming more and more prevalent. Originating from software development frameworks such as Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), SAFe, and many other derivatives, agile terminologies have later on been adopted and further invented by…

In the illuminating book of “The Lean Startup,” the author Eric Ries put forth three engines of growth for startups, each designed to give companies a small set of pertinent metrics to focus on in order to gain validated learning and long-term growth. 1. The Sticky Engine of Growth Businesses…

Traditional project budgeting is a rigid process that brings much pain and toil. It applies a bottom-up budgeting approach that doesn’t allow project management teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change in an agile business world. It has three main disadvantages: It’s slow and complicated since many…

What are the best metrics for organizations to measure whether they are simultaneously gaining validated learning and making real progress in their endeavors to test ideas, attract customers, and scale up if necessary? …

Billions of physical devices around the world today are connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. According to Cisco, there will be more than three times more networked devices on Earth than humans by 2023, creating new dynamics for marketing, sales and customer service. For CMOs today, there…

Are you constantly behind schedule and always inundated by meetings to attend, emails to reply to, and reports to generate, all of which are critical and time consuming? …

Storytelling is a way of expression and interaction that uses stories to engage the audience. The goal is to raise awareness and persuade. The story may be one of the storyteller’s own or someone else’s, from which the audience can learn; it may also be a fable, a wisdom tale…