Renowned thought leader, corporate executive, and entrepreneur, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, MBA, PhD, provides keen insights into what it takes to be a Pivot-Wise leader. Business pivots are crucial to today's firms. Business leaders need to be wise about how and when they seek to undertake a pivot. This book reveals the secrets of successful business pivots. Using insights from luminary founders and CEO's, you will find out how founders of Pandora, Box.com, Vizio, Hudson Jeans, Old Navy, KFC, and others well-known firms undertook both business and personal pivots by their top business leaders. With...

Get practical and usable insider advice on how to both shape-up your startup and also win a startup pitch competition, as provided by topnotch seasoned startup pitch judge, Dr. Lance B. Eliot, MBA, PhD. As a sought after mentor to startups, a choosy angel investor, a successful serial entrepreneur, and all-star pitch judge, Dr. Eliot takes you into the minds of the judges. He provides a comprehensive judging Scorecard and walks you through how you will be scored. This can be used as a self-diagnosis for you to make sure that your startup is covering all its bases. And if you are thinking...

AI practitioner and noted "AI Insider" thought leader, Dr. Lance Eliot, MBA, PhD, provides ground breaking work on the emergence of AI Guardian Angel Bots. Dr. Eliot points out that with the advent of Deep AI and Machine Learning, there is both great promise and potential peril for consumers. Will people trust their self-driving cars and other smart devices as the Internet of Things (IoT) takes hold? Should they trust these Deep AI enabled systems? One means to bolster trust in Deep AI is to have consumers protect themselves and their safety by making use of AI Guardian Angel Bots. These new...