Leadership, Marketing Management
A Survival Guide for Rising Marketing Managers Congratulations on your new role! Your ambition has paid off, and now someone has entrusted to you a more senior marketing manager role…maybe a functional area like email automation, a solo marketing operation, or...
Advertising and Marketing, Leadership, Stress and Pressure
In last month’s post, we got into a meditation on business turnaround principles, as demonstrated by the philosopher Robert Irvine (the host of Restaurant: Impossible). Restaurant: Impossible is my guilty pleasure, my Keeping Up With The Kardashians. And I...
Advertising and Marketing, General, Leadership
One of my guilty pleasures is the show Restaurant: Impossible with Robert Irvine. Whenever I take a trip out to my parents’ place in Woodstock, they always have a backlog of the show on their DVR. I’ve always loved stories about fixers, from Winston Wolf...
Leadership, Social Psychology
“Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. (Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness.)” –Petrarch One of the most striking scenes in Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind’s Enron expose The Smartest Guys in the Room details the...
Cialdini - Weapons of Influence, Leadership, Public Speaking
When I was 11 years old, I saw a speech by 80’s-era motivational speaker Joe Charbonneau. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and from that day forward wanted to be a public speaker of some kind. That star faded a little bit as I got older, and I could peek...
Advertising and Marketing, Leadership
Anyone can talk a good game about emotional intelligence. But when they pass away, and the line for their wake goes out the door and around the building, it’s a sign that they knew a little something about the subject. Mike Muldoon was a marketer, corporate...
