If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me about “AI hreflang management” or the mythical “AI hreflang tools,” I’d have at least fifty bucks and that’s just from last month’s site visits and the two emails I got last week. The SEO world has decided that AI is the new duct tape,
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In marketing services, an often unspoken tension is at the heart of every agency-client relationship. It’s not about bad faith or incompetence — it’s about a fundamental misalignment of goals that, if left unmanaged, can quietly derail even the most promising partnerships. Understanding this tension is critical for mid-level managers tasked with selecting, managing, or
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Our Andalusian adventure has in the planning cycle for over 20 years when we first visited Spain. It was one of the places that did not sync with a work trip and we kept putting it into our “when we retire bucket. We had a work event in Poland and committed to fitting it into
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As a Marine, I learned that success comes from deliberate and careful movements, achieved through slow, controlled actions, ultimately leading to faster and more accurate performance. Focusing on “slow is smooth and smooth is fast” emphasizes precision and minimizing unnecessary movement to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in close-quarters combat situations. But when I transitioned into the
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In business, it’s easy to focus only on the immediate next step in a plan or project. I believe that excellent execution, whether in leadership, marketing, product, or transformation, goes beyond solving today’s problems but thinking about the reactive chain of events that each step triggers. A strong strategic plan anticipates how actions will ripple,
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I posted a new article on my company blog titled “Invisible at the Worst Time, Why American Manufacturers are Losing the Tariff Opportunity,” which highlights three problems with US Manufacturing websites that are making them hard to find when businesses are looking for domestic sourcing. In today’s volatile trade landscape, American manufacturers should be enjoying
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A common thread in all of the previous epiphanies is the focus on the fundamentals and root causes. Focusing on the fundamentals and core strategies is crucial for any company seeking to enhance profits and generate long-term business value. Even the most experienced manager with extensive knowledge of generating business value and growing a business
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“Great Leaders Don’t Demand Innovation – They Enable It! Great Leaders Don’t Demand Innovation – They Enable It! Innovation isn’t something you can wave a magic wand to create. It’s something you build into its DNA. In this epiphany, I want to share a deeper look into what it takes to foster a culture of
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In Epiphany 15, I introduced the Real World Power Triangle, a practical lens for navigating organizational change through the eyes of executive sponsors, beneficiaries, and those at risk of being disintermediated. It’s a high-impact way to ensure initiatives gain traction by acknowledging the emotional and political terrain of change. But in more complex initiatives—especially within
One of the most transformative insights in my career didn’t come from a boardroom or the Marine Corps, but from my grad school public policy course for Developing Markets. In that course, we were evaluated not just on the quality of our solutions and the depth of the policy recommendations, but on how well we
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