Posts Tagged ‘Business’
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
I get frustrated every time I hear stories of women who are unwilling to help other women. In fact, I’ve heard hushed confessions from successful women who have realized that they are actually harder on other women than on men in the same role, such as competitors or potential partners – even customers. Why is that? I think I’ve figured it out.
Success Scarcity.
Although it isn’t limited to women, success scarcity is an inherent and subconscious belief that someone else’s achievement will somehow limit our ability to be successful.
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Tags: Business, Leadership, Scarcity, Society and Culture
Posted in Giving back, business success secrets | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
 Kevin Roberts The energy level went up in the room here at the World Business Forum when Kevin Roberts, CEO of one of the worlds leading creative agencies, Saatchi & Saatchi, stepped onto the stage. From the videos he showed (see below), it is clear they really have down the formula for eliciting memorable emotion in advertising campaigns.
One of his first points was the progression of the whole marketing landscape. We have moved from an attention economy, where an ad’s role was just to get your attention, to the attraction economy where we are now. From here, he posited our future as the participation economy. More and more, people want to be active in the market, not just be fed what they should think and do. Pull, not push.
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Tags: #wbf09, Advertising, Business, Kevin Roberts, Marketing, Saatchi & Saatchi, world business forum
Posted in #wbf09, Business Growth, Entrepreneurship, business success secrets | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
I knew from the moment Patrick Lencioni walked on stage and warned the audience about his ADD tendencies (look! A bird!) I was going to like him. My first instinct was dead-on and as he went on to compare parenting to business (which validated MY BOOK), I began to like him more and more  .
Although I’ve read his book, The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, many times, and even used it with my management team many years ago, he still managed to share the material in a fresh and engaging manner.
Since I don’t want to reiterate the whole book here (it’s a good one so go buy it and read it!), I wanted to share the couple of nuggets that I took away that I don’t remember reading in the book: (more…)
Tags: #wbf09, Business, Patrick Lencioni, world business forum
Posted in #wbf09, Being a ParentPreneur, Business Growth, business success secrets | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
 Bill George Bill George, former CEO of Medtronics and now Harvard professor, was a great choice to open the World Business Forum 2009. Having attended a reception he threw for the Blogger’s last night (where he gave us a signed copy of this book, 7 Lessons for Leading in a Crisis), I was able to catch a glimpse into his philosophies and ideas. I have to admit, I liked what I heard.
He came right out with an unfortunately very male analogy, saying that being a leader us like being a great athlete. Sometimes your throw touchdowns and other times its interceptions. The parallel was drawn to both the leader and that athlete doing the best they can under the circumstances they had. Obviously he’s not a Dallas Cowboys fan, but I digress. The point he was making is that failure comes with the territory and it doesn’t necessarily mean the end of a career.
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Tags: #wbf09, Business, Small business, Startup company, world business forum
Posted in #wbf09, Entrepreneurship, Giving back, business success secrets | 35 Comments »
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