Entries by Christopher Kolenda

Powerful Forecasts: 2022 and Beyond for Consultants, Experts, and Leaders

I Focused my Forecasts for 2022 and Beyond on Trends most Relevant for Small Businesses, Consultants, and Experts. I’ll host an 8-week mastermind group in January to discuss the implications of these forecasts and others so that you can provide vital thought leadership to your clients and anticipate the future for your business. 1. The Inflation bubble bursts. […]

2022 Prediction: Small Businesses will Fail at Historic Rates

The pressures of low or negative margins and employee turnover will create a downward spiral for many small businesses. CEOs will work longer hours and get consumed in problem-solving, which heightens the risks of expensive mistakes. They’ll lack the bandwidth to innovate, so the margins will continue shrinking until the business is no longer sustainable.

How to Support the Fallen Hero Honor Ride: Their stories are frozen in time. Their 6 legacies, however, live.

6 paratroopers from my unit in Afghanistan were killed in action. They served and sacrificed so that Americans could pursue their dreams in peace and safety. Each one died executing the orders that I gave them. The Fallen Hero Honor Ride is a 1700-mile bicycle ride to visit their graves and raise funds for scholarship […]

What the Great Resignation and the Big Election Beatdown Have in Common

In August, over 4 million Americans quit their jobs — the so-called Great Resignation — despite COVID unemployment supplements expiring. Last Tuesday’s election delivered shockers such as a Republican winning Virginia’s gubernatorial election and Minneapolis, Seattle, and other cities rejecting Defund the Police advocates. Common to these seemingly disparate events are a backlash against the […]

Small Businesses Win when they Think Like David, not Like Goliath

Small businesses can innovate faster than big businesses. Iran is building drones that fire ship-killing missiles while nerds with laptops launch business-crippling cyberattacks. The English longbow defeated the heavily armored French knight. “Two thousand pounds of education,” Kipling lamented of British officers shot down by rifle-wielding Pashtun fighters, “Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.” Problem-solving restores […]

Upcoming Leaders Opportunity at Antietam & Gettysburg this December – LIMITED AVAILIBILITY

I’m delighted to offer you the opportunity to join me and six other leaders at my Antietam & Gettysburg exclusive event, December 7-10.The battlefields will build your imagination for the action steps to make 2022 your best year ever. Among the topics we typically discuss: *Action steps to put the right leaders on the scene and […]