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2 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin Imagine: It's a brisk, bright autumn Saturday morning on a green field in the suburbs. You arrive in your striped shirt, white baseball cap, and black running shoes with a whistle looped around your neck. Out on the field are a couple dozen middle-school-age boys in full football regalia, helmets gleaming in the morning sun. It's game time, and this youth-league contest is one of many thousands getting underway around the country.

2 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin The late afternoon sun turned the sky over the beach a vivid yellow. A brisk, stiff wind had been blowing all day, producing huge rollers that crested toward the beach, each topped with a vaporous spray as it crashed to the sand. My wife and I were hunkered down at the edge of the dunes trying to escape the frigid wind that had forced us to don winter parkas and wool hats in the middle of September.

2 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Lisa Rabasca Roepe

By: Lisa Rabasca Roepe Planning a milestone anniversary celebration after 50 or even 100 years in business seems like a simple task. What could possibly go wrong when a successful company congratulates itself on a job well done? Plenty!Corporations have been celebrating milestone anniversaries for decades, but as any brand or PR specialist will point out, these events have become much trickier propositions in recent years.

3 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin The Former president and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant had just completed his memoir, days before his death in 1885, but didn't have a publisher. As it turned out, his friend and editor, Mark Twain, had a plan. Instead of accepting a publisher's small royalty, the famed author and raconteur promoted the book by fanning out 10,000 former Union soldiers to go door-to-door. The upshot: The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant became the first mega-selling presidential autobiography.

3 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh In 2018, when the trade war between the United States and China began, Raine Mahdi was operating a company that produced flexible packaging-think of the clear, pliable, easily customizable bags that granola is often sold in. While Mahdi was based in California, he sourced his products from a supplier across the Pacific Ocean. But as the the US and China launched a salvo of tariffs at one another, Mahdi got caught in the middle. His bottom line took a significant financial hit.