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Sometimes we manage to get a little work done. Continue reading
Creating a Narrative…
…to explain your numbers is a fool’s game. The story will usually suffer from logical holes that you’ll have to gloss over. (How many times have you heard “we’ll get to that later” to question about a story you’re being … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Strategy
Tagged communication, corporate communications, leadership, strategy
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Talent > Systems
“Any industry that values systems and processes over talent is an industry in decay.” Wrote Bob Hoffman today, reminding us that the adtech, martech, …aaS, and whatever other stuff we’ve cobbled into a tech stack isn’t our secret sauce. Like … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged adtech, Bob Hoffman, leadership, martech, organization
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Social Media: “Testing Ugly Early”
An old adage of direct response marketing is “test ugly early.” The reason is that ugly disturbs. And that breaks through and triggers response. The other benefit is that ugly is cheap and quick to produce. Ugly, disturbing, and cheap. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Media, Philosophy
Tagged leadership, philosophy, social media
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Profit Maximization, Humanity Minimization
Facebook stepped in it again, this time by allowing users of their advertising platform to target users via vile anti-Semitic terms. Do I think the people or the company is anti-Semitic? Of course not. I think the company* is anti-human. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged algorithms, Facebook, leadership, people
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Autonomy: Kitchen Cabinet Installers vs. Office Workers
I’m listening to the kitchen cabinet installers upstairs working on my new kitchen and it dawned on me that they have more autonomy than a typical cube- or open-plan dweller in an office. As Dan Pink points out, it’s mastery, … Continue reading
Posted in Behavioral economics, Leadership, Organization, Philosophy
Tagged autonomy, leadership, mastery, purpose
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Competitors? Meh.
I saw a post on LinkedIn today about the importance of doing combat with your competitors. That’s misguided and wrong. When you devote resources to something, you are by definition taking them away from something else. Every bit of time … Continue reading
Posted in Customer Care, Leadership, Organization, Philosophy, Product Development, Sales
Tagged competition, leadership, product development, sales
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Are You Running These Ads? Why?
Go to your digital marketing team and your advertising agency and see how many of those people are using ad blockers so they can get their work done. You might be surprised and you should be embarrassed. Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
Tagged advertising, leadership, quality
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An Odd Industry: “Marketing Leadership”
Increasingly, marketing is being taken over by charlatans. An example of this is the so-called “marketing leadership industry” one that is, so far as I can tell, devoid of metrics and accountability. When you see a CMO bragging of their accomplishments in said “industry” you can be sure you’ve been had. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Marketing, Organization, Philosophy, Sales
Tagged Bob Hoffman, charlatans, CMO, leadership, Mark Ritson, marketing
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Marketing dashboards are poor maps of where you’ve been. You need first-hand experience with the terrain you’re now encountering, not more lousy maps. To improve your marketing, don’t hire a cartographer. Hire the hiker who’s seen the terrain up close. … Continue reading
Thursday, 3 November 2016 11:45 am
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