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Corporate Nomadland - The Gig Economy and Digital Nomads

Corporate Nomadland - The Gig Economy and Digital Nomads

How Amazon Used Trends To Buy MGM For Free

How Amazon Used Trends To Buy MGM For Free

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Construction & Real Estate – Get Outside the Box then Think

Construction & Real Estate – Get Outside the Box then Think

This podcast covers how trends in government policies, local regulations, material availability and labor all merge to alter what people want from their office and home, what they can afford and what is available.

There’s Mushroom for Growth When You Focus Your Market

There’s Mushroom for Growth When You Focus Your Market

In this week’s podcast, Manny and Adam bring on special guests John De Lorenzo and Kristopher Savage of Desert Pearl Mushrooms, a Tucson-based business that grows and sells culinary and medicinal mushrooms throughout the city. There’s no doubt these guys are creative and rightly keep their eyes for market trends. But, like many small businesses, they might be making a mistake by chasing multiple markets beyond their current value proposition.

Freight, e-Bikes & Supersonic Airplanes – Is Your Business Ready for Trends in Transportation?

Freight, e-Bikes & Supersonic Airplanes – Is Your Business Ready for Trends in Transportation?

Autonomous cars are going to happen. The question is when. It’s most likely a LOT earlier than you are anticipating. And that’s a missed opportunity for your business to perform better, building on the higher reliability and safety of autonomous vehicles – which will include semi-trucks. You need to plan on this trend as you develop future scenarios and plan on new markets and new products.

The Gig Economy is the Empowerment Economy

The Gig Economy is the Empowerment Economy

We love to talk about trends and the importance of following them, but there’s a few trends that need a little love on their own. In this episode of the Business Trendsetter Podcast, Spark Partners hone in on the growing trends of remote work and the gig economy, and the serious need to fully embrace them.

How Amazon Bought MGM for Free

How Amazon Bought MGM for Free

Amazon is buying MGM Studios for $9B. But actually, Amazon is buying MGM for free. And you can do the same thing – if you follow trends. You too can create enormous “Trend Value."

You’re Living the Trends, So PLAN For Them

You’re Living the Trends, So PLAN For Them

We’ve said it before. You’ve got to pay attention to the trends, but not just the trends in your business’ performance. It is crucial to look beyond your business, beyond your market, beyond your beliefs and culture for the trends that will shape the future economy and consumer habits.

Focus Your Resources on Growth Opportunities

Focus Your Resources on Growth Opportunities

We put resources onto our business, and it becomes an ongoing “constant.” We insufficiently evaluate if we are over-investing people, money and our management resources in protecting historical businesses. Thus, we don’t sufficiently invest in growth opportunities. Too often we think that we have no resources to pursue growth, when in fact we have ample resources if we redeploy.

Finding the Right Advisors and Coach for Your Business

Finding the Right Advisors and Coach for Your Business

Obtaining the right advice is really important to helping you succeed. We all need external input to get over and around our biases, while providing external eyes, ears and mental energy to our business. But most of us have no idea how to identify the right advisor or coach, nor how to structure the relationship to get the best advice.

Focus on Growth and Build on Trends to Create Value – Learn from the Success and Failure of General Electric

Focus on Growth and Build on Trends to Create Value – Learn from the Success and Failure of General Electric

You can never assume your business is sustainable. In reality, market shifts can happen remarkably fast. Your business can become obsolete faster than you ever imagined. Just as technology and disruptive change creates opportunity, it also creates “creative destruction.” Great leaders build on trends to grow value. Poor leaders get stuck trying to “sustain” and inevitably destroy value.

Overcome Perceptual BIAS and Fear of Risk to Be More Successful

Overcome Perceptual BIAS and Fear of Risk to Be More Successful

There is real, measurable risk. But we make most decision on our perception of risk – rather than real risk. What’s new, or you don’t understand, you think of as risky. But many new opportunities are NOT risky. In fact, often doing nothing (maintaining the status quo) is the riskiest strategy.