R(E)volution of Management…Facing the Challenges of World4.0    

“There’s a transformative shift in business, and what worked before is no longer an option. It’s time for evolved entrepreneurs, visionary creators, and changemakers to rewrite the rules of business for the 21st century.” Tony Hsieh, Founder, CEO Zappos   (Amazon owned), recognized uncoventional business strategist, Designer of Corporate  Happinness Culture                    Who’s Knocking?  Every morning [...]

2018-06-07T21:22:47+00:00June 7th, 2018|

I’m not getting educated for my future! Part I: What I Need to Thrive as a Leader

  This post reflects a conversation on preparing future leaders between a millennial student and a baby boomer leadership strategist. Their impressions and challenges are revealed below. Millennial Student speaks:  As a college student living in this increasingly VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) age, I’m not getting educated for my future as a leader. Although [...]

2018-05-07T04:29:53+00:00May 7th, 2018|

Leading C Suite Executives Attend ‘Digital or Death’ Workshop in Lahore

A digital workshop titled 'Digital or Death' was conducted by Brainchild Communications Pakistan and RED Communication Arts in Lahore recently. The workshop, catering to the C-Suite management of several FMCGs, MNCs, banks and businesses based out of Lahore, was conducted by digital transformation specialist Ira Kaufman. Beyond the Scope of 'Challenge Market' The workshop focused [...]

2018-01-18T14:05:34+00:00January 18th, 2018|

Digital Transformation in Pakistan

Digital Transformation in Pakistan My recent visit to Pakistan was both educational and inspiring. With Pakistan (rated 50 among 50 counties in terms of Digital Preparedness ) there was a thirst for this new approach to business and entrepreneurship. They sensed transformation was the direction but most were in the stage of adopting [...]

2018-01-18T14:07:34+00:00January 18th, 2018|

Embracing catalytic leadership in the digital marketplace

Jeanette Teh explores what embracing ‘digital’ actually means for companies in the current marketplace. Twenty years ago last month, Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the Google domain name, a misspelling of the mathematical term of one followed by a hundred zeroes to denote the large quantities of data that it would handle. Renamed from [...]

2018-01-11T18:10:02+00:00January 11th, 2018|

Leaders Reinvented: From Leader to Catalyzer

In the changing digital global marketplace, the executive faces a turbulent VUCA environment (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous). This uncomfortable milieu faces executives with challenging tension points and decisions that many have no experience or data to draw upon. Beth Comstock calls it the Emergent Era, where ambiguity rules and change is the new normal. Most executives do not [...]

2018-01-06T20:08:49+00:00January 4th, 2018|

Reimagining Entrepreneurship… “Winning is Winning”

“The current technology and venture capital structure is broken. It rewards quantity over quality, consumption over creation, quick exits over sustainable growth, and shareholder profit over shared prosperity. It chases after “unicorn” companies bent on “disruption” rather than supporting businesses that repair, cultivate, and connect. Sex & Startups. Many entrepreneurs strive to become the next Mark [...]

2018-01-14T20:46:25+00:00January 4th, 2018|

Digital is Inevitable … But Not your Success

Digital is Inevitable...But Not Your Success By Ira Kaufman Digital Transformation has evolved from being a questionable threat to an accepted inevitability. But your success meets many obstacles and is far from guaranteed. Digital is an imperative and pervasive across all operations. Businesses are trying to seize the opportunity shortening traditional strategic planning and searching [...]

2017-10-10T13:31:30+00:00July 20th, 2017|

Are YOU a Transformative Leader?

Are YOU a Transformative Leader? By Ira Kaufman   In our ever shifting world, the leader is the fulcrum for directing transformation. Organizational change is often stressful and difficult. By anchoring their intention and clarifying their purpose, leaders define a clear path for the mindset and culture required to realize transformation. Most businesses and organizations [...]

2017-10-10T13:34:35+00:00July 20th, 2017|