Stepping Into a New Role After more than a decade at Allied Global Marketing, including the past three years as EVP of Strategy & Innovation, I’ve stepped away from full-time agency life to begin a high-impact new chapter through SW14 Group. My time at AGM was nothing short of extraordinary. I’m proud of the work…
Have you ever been “dressed down” by your supervisor in front of your peers? I have on more than one occasion in my business career. It’s a tactic of intimidation and a sure sign of a supervisor that considers fear to be an important ingredient in getting things done. After all, you can’t be soft…
Why? Because it is likely that it will be an unproductive, wasteful use of your time. Now, meetings do have a value if held for the right reason and managed properly, but one doesn’t have to survey too many studies to conclude that the odds are against you. Late last year, I read with interest…
Hi there! We’ve noticed a lot of interest in this post recently (which is cool, since it’s a decade old). There’s an updated version of it here! It occurred to me recently that certain concepts, trends, guideposts, whatever you want to call them, kept coming up in my reading, research, discussions, and consultations. They’re not…
At an early point in my career, I worked in the manufacturing division of a Fortune 500 company. I did production analyses and planning. In all honesty, I wasn’t too crazy about the gig. I was young and inexperienced and quite intimidated when I had to make my weekly trips from headquarters to the nearby…