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Maybe ‘authentic leadership’ is total bullshit

From here: “Leaders need to be true to what the situation demands and what the people around them want and need,” he says. “Each of us plays a number of different roles in our lives, and people behave and think… Continue Reading

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Leadership 101: Don’t be so obvious about the stuff that actually matters to you

Here’s something I’ve run into for pretty much the entire 12-13 years I’ve been working: oftentimes, senior leaders — people at the top of a silo within an organization, or an organization as a whole — clearly have things they care… Continue Reading

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At the end of your career, what will you value?

I once — way back in the day — wrote a post about how much people connect their self-worth to their job, and that might be a small corollary to what I’m about to discuss here. It’s this big concept: you spend a lot… Continue Reading

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Here’s a simple, transparent leadership idea

Thought about this after therapy this morning, and wanted to share. Most organizations are designed as a hierarchy, no? (Holacracy is cool, but it’s probably not there yet as a concept.) And, for better or worse, most organizations are silo’ed — there’s… Continue Reading

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Start treating your consumers as insiders

I’m not a big enough deal in the marketing world (yet?) to get sent to things like #INBOUND or #CMWorld, although I definitely enjoy tweeting using the hashtag from afar. (I enjoy fun little games.) INBOUND — which is put… Continue Reading

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Why do we always end up dancing in a circle at weddings?

To date, probably one of the more emotional moments I’ve had at a wedding — and I’ve been to a lot of weddings, so this probably says something — is when my good friends got married somewhere in western Massachusetts around October… Continue Reading

Link traditional marketing and digital marketing. Pause. Make money.

From a Fast Company article on Universal (the movie company) having a good year: Never was this more on display than over the summer, when the studio’s digital play—a combination of meme-inspired Snapchat geofilters; Periscoped red carpet premieres; and a VR stunt… Continue Reading

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Could advertising just die someday as an industry?

I’ve wondered this for a couple of months now, so I decided to try and sit down and make some sense of the idea with a post. Here’s the thing: advertising is oftentimes everything to media pursuits (television, magazines, newspapers, etc.) It’s… Continue Reading