brand-as-business bit: For quite awhile now, I’ve been wanting to write a bit with this title, “What Got You There Won’t Get You Here.” It’s a twist on the title of Marshall Goldsmith‘s best selling book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.” Goldsmith’s premise is that our previous successes often prevent us from achieving more […]
leadership
Personal branding is one of those topics that a lot of people talk about but few get it right. Here to set the record straight is branding expert Karen Kang. Karen Kang is the author of Branding Pays: The Five Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand, a great new book on why a personal […]
brand-as-business bit: “You can’t have fantastic breakthroughs without frustrating failures.” This is the kind of encouragement we need to hear – and who better to give it than Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who’s personally experienced very public failures (including losing his first mayoral bid) as well as some “fantastic breakthroughs” (including reducing Newark’s crime rate […]
02.19.13
Punch Fear in the Face
brand-as-business bit: “It’s time to punch fear in the face. It’s time to escape average. It’s time to do work that matters. It’s time to start.” Someone who issues statements like these is my kind of person!! And that’s why I was thrilled to hear that someone, Jon Acuff, speak recently. Jon’s the guy behind […]
01.23.13
How to Help Employees Get Strategy
How effective are cascades – you know, those processes by which communication flow down through an organization from the CEO through senior leaders to middle managers to frontline employees? Not very, was the answer in a piece in last month’s Harvard Business Review. […]
10.04.12
Followership
brand-as-business bit: In Deadlines and Disruption, the memoir by Stephen B. Shepard, editor-in-chief of Businessweek from 1984 to 2005, Shepard writes about a conversation with Oz Elliott, former editor of Newsweek: He thought that institutions—whether magazines or companies—sometimes fail because of weak leadership. There is no vision or strategy. But sometimes, he said, even strong leaders with […]
09.13.12
Strategy and Organizational Design
My recent piece, “Strategy IS Execution,” prompted quite a few reactions. In it, I wrote about how it no longer makes sense to separate the value of strategy from the value of execution because execution is actually becoming strategy. I’ve learned a lot from the ensuing comments and conversations. […]
In keeping with my mission to feed your brain with good stuff on brands, businesses, and the people who work on them, today I’m featuring an interview on leadership. But not just your typical leadership — the leadership by people who are introverts. Lisa Petrilli (CEO of C-Level Strategies, Inc., Harvard Business Review blogger, and former Baxter […]
08.30.12
August Brand-As-Business Buffet
Been on vacation? You might have missed some good stuff to feed your brain — here are five of my pieces from this past month, in a virtual buffet of insights for you to choose from: strategy IS execution — A guest post on Bulldog Drummond’s blog about how execution is actually becoming strategy. Superior operational […]
08.07.12
Spit in Your Soup
(Last week’s Women’s Foodservice Forum Executive Summit featured execellent educational content from industry leaders and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management faculty. Here’s the next in this week-long series on key learnings from the conference.) brand-as-business bit: Kellogg Associate Professor Tanya Menon taught us how to get people motivated about the things we want to […]