As 2017 comes to a close, many people are focusing on the year ahead. The last 12 months present questions about the global economy, interest rates, AI and the impact of bitcoin and blockchain. To get a clearer picture of what we can expect to see in 2018, we [...]
As 2018 gets underway, it's time to take a look at what the year ahead holds for us. There are many areas we could focus on but the one that seems to be on many peoples' minds is technology. Whether we look at advances in medical science, energy or [...]
Dysfunction: the word comes up in conversation every day, usually in relation to crazy families, nutty reality show contestants, and all-around gossip. But what happens when the word dysfunction can be applied to your sales team? In particular, when a dysfunctional sales team is preventing you [...]
Professors Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec some years ago did a very interesting experiment. They showed six different products to marketing students at Sloan Business School at MIT. The products were: 1) Wireless trackball 2) Wireless keyboard 3) A book for design 4) A [...]
The term ‘Thought Leadership’ is either inspired or inane, depending on your view of changing business terms of reference. I like it – but only when it is applied practically, particularly in Marketing. With decreasing boundaries and blurred lines of service, it’s easy for your voice [...]
There is a story about a traveller who found that, in order to be welcomed into an eastern family, he would be asked to take three cups of tea. The first cup was taken as a stranger, the second cup as a friend and, if he [...]
Businesses book venues for events of all kinds. From small meetings to international conferences, organisations require the venue of their choice to be able to meet the specific needs of each occasion. The majority of larger locations assist those organising events by providing the services of [...]
There are few topics more relevant to the life we live today than Big Data and the role of information in a networked economy. Thanks to the internet, social networking, smartphones and loyalty cards, more data is being collected and stored about us than ever before. [...]
You may not consider booking a professional conference moderator for your conference, but when it comes to sessions where panels are used, a good moderator can make all the difference. After all, you have probably already devoted a lot of time to finding the right keynote speaker but [...]
Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world's top speakers on leadership and performance writes regularly on his personal blog at marshallgoldsmithfeedforward.com. Here's a great post he recently published on getting paid for performance. Using a personal anecdote, Marshall makes his point clear. He begins and concludes his article [...]
