Model excellence if you want the shortest path from A to B, by adopting the traits that create high performing companies. Here are the key traits from a number of sources, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Accenture, integrated and condensed down into one hard hitting list, to be brain food for business leaders. The key … Continue reading
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Gangnam Style 1 billion youtube views was no accident
At its peak, Guinness Book of Records declared the Psy’s Gangnam Style had received the most likes ever on a YouTube video. Gangnam Style hit one billion views on 21 December, 2012. The Youtube count at the time of writing January 13, 2013, is 1,173,693,451. When we think of Gangnam style, we think of this amazing, … Continue reading
Using ‘community’ and ‘play’ to build a conscious and valuable business
See Deepak Chopra’s address to Google on the power of personal consciousness and team consciousness in creating business value. This is a must see and a hopeful and empowering message about conscious business. Deepak teaches The Soul of Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management. ( Yes, yes and yes to Deepak’s world view ) … Continue reading
Creating trust through employee and stakeholder social media
Angela Ahrendts, the CEO of Burberry, thinks that the language of business is no longer English, she believes the language of business is social. She goes on to say that until we “feel felt” by each other, we will not be in a trusting relationship. Right on Angela! Social language is the way to feel felt … Continue reading
Brands with well being, social and environmental values are disrupting the marketplace
A greater sense of personal responsibility is redefining the way your customers perceive value. Personal responsibility, and the social kudos that comes from personal responsibility, is making a profound difference in the way customer’s buy and attach to a brand. People are looking to make a contribution to the world with their brand of choice. … Continue reading
Etsy, community marketplaces and the value of scarcity
Etsy – the spoof video In today’s mass commodity market, many things, many cheap things, look the same. Consumer preference is moving away from a manufacturing economy towards one that is based on a community marketplace, like the shift from mass market brands on the supermarket shelf to farmers markets. In the community driven marketplace, … Continue reading
Using social media and events to drive business development
It is interesting talking to the new era of business developers in my professional network about the cunning and at times brilliant ways that social media, both personal and business, drive business opportunity. Only this week I heard a business development executive lament the “old world thinking” of her employer, who still sees business development … Continue reading
The greatest predictor of failure ” Quickened pulse and self delusion”
As a creative right brainer, I often marvel at the cool headed logic of an enlightened left brainer, and none more so than, Warren Buffett. Buffett’s genius is referenced throughout this blog (thanks Warren!). Recently I have been reading Buffett’s biography The Snowball, hoping some of his genius will rub off on me. I note … Continue reading
Get your brand in front of the market or be run over
Unless we create a culture of innovation, our business will be left behind. This requires the knowing of what to do and the ability to do it. Easy to say, not easy to do, in fact 70% of corporate initiatives fail to be initiated. (or so says Michael Jarrett, a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at … Continue reading
So where is the next round of business growth coming from?
In this climate of disruption, a business can no longer sit in cruise control, tweaking their business model from year to year. The pillars of the old economy, pre the internet, have been toppled or have been shaken to their core. Markets are changing shape and game changing business models are side swiping blind sighted … Continue reading
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