How Comic-Con and the culture of superheroes can provide us with invaluable business lessons
Last week I spoke with Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, the very useful business-oriented social networking site. At the end of our time I asked Jeff about something three or four senior execs have said to me: that joining LinkedIn is a little like joining a dating site when you’re in a relationship. One eye on the exit…
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Don't it? Well that's what Rod Stewart said... And in the world of The Kodak Moment, he's probably onto something...
Very quick post to introduce the latest member of our team, Ms Anna Gilligan, who will be joining as our Americas correspondent. You may remember Anna from such programs as Fast Track on FoxBusiness.com and as a regular guest on the Fox News Channel’s Red Eye...
Rainy days and Mondays always getting you down? Not today: here’s what’s coming up this week…
Clorox’s GreenWorks cleaning products are accredited by the Sierra Club. Method’s cleaning products are not, despite being as – if not more – green. Why? Because the Sierra Club ‘only partners with big companies with large distribution networks’. Who turned up late for the party and allowed others to plough the furrow. This sort of thing has to stop.
I interviewed Eric Ryan, co-founder and chief brand architect for Method on Wednesday. Very interesting man, very smart company and a lot to be admired – both in his approach to business and the depth of Method’s commitment to sustainability. But what really interested me was his practical take on collaboration and business creation...
How the Aflac Duck gave birth to a new era of quacking branding for the insurance giant
Take the balance of what’s left and “anywhere from 20 percent to 50 percent aren't worth investing in”. Or so says Chris Mott, president of Corporate Training at Kurlan & Associates, Dave Kurlan’s pioneering sales assessment company...
New York, a room full of sales people, and a heart of ice...
CNNMoney calls Irwin Gotlieb, CEO of Group M, the world's leading full service media investment management company, 'the $59 billion man'. He lead the integration of WPP's media-buying shops to manage over 16 per cent of the world's $364 billion in global advertising spend in 2007. Irwin knows a thing or two about leadership challenges...
At ad:tech Singapore where people have been making some very interesting points about the future of digital marketing and mobile devices. How they can even think in this heat is beyond me...
According to Eric Engleman’s Amazon Blog on TechFlash:“Online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos, now part of Amazon.com, just made a very costly error…” An over $1.6 million costly error. But it’s handling of the mistake has been exemplary…
Whilst I don’t like to be blogging in the style of anyone else, I am going to shamelessly ape the tweets of the get-up-and-go crew. You may have seen this before, but I haven’t...
Lucky enough to visit South Africa this week. Short trip, but interviewed a chap long on enthusiasm...
In an interview with The McKinsey Quarterly, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said: “in a corporation the role of a leader is often not to force the outcome, but to force execution”...
This week, we’re in Copenhagen, Cape Town, Dallas and Nice. Which is nice...
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keep your eye out for the Nigel Dessau of AMD interview I mentioned last week. Very good, practical advice – especially for those of you faced with a problem the size of Nigel’s...
I was reading the transcript of Jonny Spragg’s very entertaining and informative interview with Nigel Dessau, Chief Marketing Officer for AMD (on next week).
Nigel talks about the best pieces of advice he’s ever been given, one of which came from Alice in Wonderland...
Last week I was lucky enough to join MIT Sloan Sales at their annual conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. One presentation stood out for me, and one line from that presentation in particular. I thought you might enjoy it...
...here at MeetTheBoss TV Towers (not that we would have it any other way). This week: Dallas, Texas for our second live show, this time at the Next Generation Utilities Summit. We followed the excellent keynote speaker, Cyrus Wadia, The White House Senior Policy Advisor on Renewable Energy...
What processes do some of the world's leading companies use to effectively allocate limited resources? How do they minimize the risks involved in staying competitive? And how should you identify your current position in the marketplace, and that of your competition? ...
A strong corporate culture is more vital than ever. Not just because of the tightness in the global economy, in fact, almost despite it. Your current and future employees have more job choices than ever before, and the good people are very well informed...
Sayings are great things: 'management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things'. They are pithy, witty and to the point (the point often being that you can remember them and quote them back). They help...
Napoleon Hill famously wrote about the secrets of the successful, and what he started, thousands have continued. I have been writing about business for over 15 years, and my bookshelves groan under the weight of 'executive' reading: some brilliant, some controversial, some faddish, some out of date even before they were published...
J. Andre Teixeira, VP for the Campbell Soup Company, says in our exclusive program: 'I've never met a CEO who doesn't like innovation. I've never met a mother who doesn't like to say her child is creative'' The fact is, not all children are, and leaders ' unlike mothers ' must be realistic...
Hello and welcome. We're calling this launch week because that's what it feels like. We've had face-time, reset our coordinates, and now we're up a flagpole. And that is the only bit of pseudo-management double talk you'll get from us...