Jim Kaskade

Serial Entrepreneur, Global Enterprise Executive

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Transparency Leads to Change

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  • February 5, 2021
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Black History Month

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  • February 2, 2021
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: A Path Forward for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in Business

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  • June 5, 2020
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Stop Selling Direct to SMB – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #2)

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  • May 17, 2020
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Pillars of Change – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #1)

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  • May 5, 2020
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Accelerating our Painted Picture

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  • April 12, 2020
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Radically accelerating to the future state

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  • April 12, 2020
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Culture = Competitive Advantage

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  • October 10, 2019
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10Xers – Leadership that thrives in Chaos

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  • September 7, 2019
Transparency Leads to Change
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Transparency Leads to Change

Twice a year, my company, Conversica, is dedicated to posting both its Diversity & Inclusion

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  • February 5, 2021
Black History Month
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Black History Month

It’s February. Wow where did January go? As you reflect on the first month of

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  • February 2, 2021
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: A Path Forward for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in Business
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: A Path Forward for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in Business

This is a reprint from the Conversica Blog, where I discuss diversity and equality within

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  • June 5, 2020
Stop Selling Direct to SMB – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #2)
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Stop Selling Direct to SMB – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #2)

What? Stop selling directly to SMB? Wait a minute. Conversica was founded based on a

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  • May 17, 2020
Pillars of Change – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #1)
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Pillars of Change – A CEO’s COVID Story (Pillar #1)

It was a week after the pandemic was acknowledged, and only 3 days away from

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  • May 5, 2020
Accelerating our Painted Picture
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Accelerating our Painted Picture

“What is our 2024 Painted Picture?” Yes, “getting to cashflow breakeven” was the goal that

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  • April 12, 2020
Radically accelerating to the future state
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Radically accelerating to the future state

I was catching up with one of the companies I advise from time to time

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  • April 12, 2020
Culture = Competitive Advantage
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Culture = Competitive Advantage

I came across this picture from a “corporate culture” article written by MIT Sloan Management

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  • October 10, 2019
10Xers – Leadership that thrives in Chaos
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10Xers – Leadership that thrives in Chaos

I was recently rereading one of my favorite Jim Collins’ books, Great by Choice, as

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  • September 7, 2019
Humility + Will = Level 5
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Humility + Will = Level 5

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce results. They

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  • August 31, 2019

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CEO for 20 years. Focused on AI, Security, Identity, IoT, Big Data, Social, Mobile, & Cloud. Decade in data warehousing, business intelligence, data mining.

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