My son has $23.6 billion. How is yours doing?
My son has $23.6 billion. $7.2 billion in cash. He also forecast Airbus' failures with their A380. He's a rabid [...]
What’s YOUR Professional Profile? Your Team’s?
Quickly identify performance gaps in yourself or your organization by understanding how personality can bias the problems we take on and what value we offer.
Your Plan Ain’t All That Great
In "Are you investing in the tree or the hole?," we talked about the danger of seeing failure of an [...]
Steve Jobs’ “Drop of Poison”
When you'd talk to Steve Jobs, he'd make every decision sound like a "poison decision." But I believe Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs largely because he knew which decisions were Poison and which were Optimization. How can you use this for your decisions?
Smart Dinner Party: Your New Go-To Company Voice
A marketing responsibility I see often undervalued is the creation of Organizational Voice—the tone you use consistently across different media. [...]
Ego Capital and the “Series A Crunch”
The problem isn’t too little smart money, it’s too many dumb deals The meme of the month is “The [...]
Community Works Launch
A newly published book called “How Children Succeed” shines a light on the inadequacies of traditional education. Paul Tough, a journalist [...]
Product Marketing vs. Brand Marketing: Separate your Product OR Separate your Users?
Product Marketing separates your product from other products. Brand Marketing separates your customers from other customers.