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Tag Archives: value
Corporate imagination and compliance
The interesting and fun bits of our world are driven by the vision, imagination, and execution capabilities of people. Much of the capital and technical capabilities required to enable these great things to happen are tied up in our corporations, … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy
Tagged Change, change management, Governance, Innovation, Leadership, Operations, Risk, Strategy, value
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Value is dependent on context.
Red Bull founder Deitrich Mateshitz deliberately priced Red Bull, the fizzy, nasty tasting tonic imbibed by would be racing drivers, balloonists, and skateboarders because” it makes them fly,” at 4 times the price of a can of Coke, so no … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Communication, Marketing
Tagged Advertising, Branding, communication, customer, Marketing, retailer, value
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Innovation, Hypocrisy and Money.
Apple has beaten Samsung in the US court, protecting a raft of patents that apply to mobile devices, acquiring a pile of cash, and the probable withdrawal of a number of Samsung products from the market. Competitive nirvana. Whilst it … Continue reading
Posted in Branding, Customers, Innovation, Strategy
Tagged Branding, customer, Innovation, Strategy, value
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Four immutable laws of sales.
For years with my sales consulting hat on I have pushed the notion that when selling a product or service that requires the B2B buyer to exercise some level of consideration, so it excludes the everyday, commodity purchase, there are … Continue reading
Thanks for hearing.
The hard part about writing a blog, I have found, is not finding stuff to write about, but finding stuff that has not been written about before, or finding a new twist on an old topic, and then being sufficiently … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Social Media
Tagged communication, managing yourself, Social Media, value
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Best management tool ever
The best management tool available is amongst the cheapest, a pair of shoes. Hierarchies are vertical, they filter and modify information as it goes up and down an organisation, but real things, those that customers pay for, get done in … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, Operations
Tagged communication, Leadership, lean, Management, managing yourself, Operations, performance assessment, Personal Rant, value
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Meritocracy, not democracy.
Meritocracy is about the best ideas, whereas democracy is about consensus, usually an average outcome. In a democracy, those who manage to smooth the waters, and gain the average usually get ahead, but in a true meritocracy, those with the … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Leadership, Management
Tagged change management, collaboration, Innovation, Management, performance assessment, Politics, value
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