Nearly seventy years ago, legendary management consultant Peter Drucker concluded all business is about two things—marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation. And seven decades later, this is truer than ever. Today, both marketing and innovation demand a change-leader focus, a bias for playing offense—and planning...
Boeing is in crisis. This week’s New York Times’ article by Bill Saporito, “Boeing Made a Change to Its Corporate Culture Decades Ago. Now It’s Paying the Price,” tells well the stack of mini-crises that birthed mega-crisis for one of America’s most “iconic” companies. On January...
Recently, London’s Guardian published a fascinating article outlining research that shows magicians have a lower mental health risk. And I thought we magicians were crazy. Who knew? In my recent book, Creating Business Magic, we focused on translating the lessons of the world’s greatest magicians to business. Well, why not? There is...
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jingping will meet in a high-stakes bilateral summit on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in San Francisco beginning November 15th. The topic: The most important bilateral relationship on the planet in an unprecedented...
Over the years, I’ve been honored to work with and learn from some of history’s greatest women leaders. And one thing they’ve taught me is the power of fighting as an insurgent, an underdog, and a leader of change. Just before Covid-19, our client Slalom, LLC...
Over several decades, I’ve made it a mission to see—live—some of history’s greatest musical performers … And even I’m impressed with the list:
Jethro Tull | Steppenwolf | Ten Years After | Deep Purple | Three Dog Night | David Bowie | Frank Sinatra | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | Bob Dylan | Bonnie Raitt | Mike Cross | Neil Young | Tom Jones | Procol Harum | Tony Bennett | The Who | Billy Joel | Cyndi Lauper | Phil Collins | Rod Stewart | Willie Nelson | Aretha Franklin | Sam Moore | Sting | Alicia Keys | Eric Clapton | The Allman Brothers | Elton John | Paul McCartney | Garth Brooks | Paul Simon | Madonna | Sarah Brightman | Andrea Bocelli | Barbara Streisand | The Beach Boys | Celine Dion | Tina Turner | Shania Twain | Cher | U2 | Stevie Wonder | Florence + The Machine | Lady Gaga | Michael Jackson | The Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen…