Smart leaders know they can be coaches in most any business situation. Every leader can be a coach and mentor, regardless of their formal role or level in an organization.

For big organizations especially, the pressure to change—to adapt to new market pressures and seize unprecedented opportunities—is high. That’s why I sat down at this year’s Minds & Machines conference in San Francisco with four experts from around the world who have led change in their own organizations, especially in the face of digitization... Here’s a distillation of their advice to changemakers everywhere.

You still need to know where you are and where you are headed. The same is true for annual planning.

One thing (unfortunately) that we do know is that most start-up businesses never reach the heights that match the dreams of the founders…yet others are a run-away successes. I’m not yet putting my enterprises in the category of ‘runaway’ successes – but we are managing to serve many customers, grow, and have a good time while we are doing it. So, we are getting something right.

“Dance with the one that brung ya”. Did you know that the same, rather poor grammar rule, also applies to social leadership and even on social media?