I spoke to a group of #NAWBO women business owners this past week on the "Workplace of the Future" - which, by the way, is becoming an obsolete title and I have to rework that.

We've all been there...the dreaded "team meeting". It never starts or ends on time, you spend excessive amounts of time discussing some topic that isn't really that important to everyone - just the loudest in the room.

Whether you're a seasoned executive or a relatively new manager, trying to decode executive strategy and make it actionable can be a challenge. Some are innately able to do this while others struggle with it.

While having a diverse team is really important, Leadership Evolution Group's CEO, Amy Riccardi, explains why Diversity of Thinking is even more important.

Our world is insanely busy. We wake up, look at the phone, and already begin to prioritize the thousand things we need to accomplish in the next 24 hours before we start it all over again.

The New Year is fast approaching. If you're like most entrepreneurs and small business owners you may or (more likely) may not have created that plan for 2020.

We hear this often from our small and medium sized clients quite often. They have been so busy "in" the business they haven't had time to work "on" it.

Most business executives end the year, or start the new one, with excitement for what is ahead.

The Launch of Leadership Evolution Group's new tagline: We Keep Business Simple™

Every organization hits a ceiling at some point. Some figure out how to break through it, some linger there longer than they like, while other businesses simply fizzle out. I know because I've seen it in my own businesses and others as well.

As a start-up you look for the right people then create a roll for them because there is plenty of work to do. But as you business grows and matures, you have to think differently about your business design and look at getting the "right seats" in mind first, then getting the right people in the right seats.

It’s been quite the year for re-evaluation and assessment of where current business stands. Whether it is a part of a growth or exit strategy, many entrepreneurs, CEOs and executives have had the conversation "what do we do next" and the concept of a merger or acquisition most certainly crosses the minds of most.

Regardless of whether you are a large or small organization, a company or non-profit, here is a list of 6 things executive teams should be focused on in order to help you grow, scale up, and prosper in 2019 and beyond.

One of the big questions we get from our CEO clients is as the business grows what is the real role of a CEO? What should they really be focused on to take the organization to new levels, because most are focused on the day-to-day aspects of the business.

The "human capital" space, if you take out the HR (transactional) aspects of human resources...the idea of 'human capital' is really still very new. We are going through the exact same industry life cycle as the eLearning space did in the late 90s and early 2000s.

In my lifetime, I've been blogging since July 2005. My first business was Amy Smith Consulting, LLC - an eLearning strategy firm which I kept for six years (2001-7) and loved.

So what has me writing another blog post on the topic? ...the conversation has finally shifted from the boring, and not-so-telling, metrics of time to hire and butts in seats, etc. to things that are meaningful to business leaders...people.