grajgushost2019-09-24T16:34:26+00:00July 8th, 2009|
The world of McKinsey, Boston Consulting, and Bain dominate traditional consulting. Their strengths, in my view, are most deeply developed in cost-cutting and in trimming out the wasted white spaces of organization. Smaller, less process-driven [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:32:53+00:00July 1st, 2009|
Entrepreneurs are imaginative, expansive, and inspiring dynamos. But, in a drastically down economy, when payrolls must be met, credit has dried up, and suppliers retreat to tight-fisted terms, entrepreneurs are also something else . . [...]
grajgushost2019-09-23T22:05:38+00:00June 22nd, 2009|
CULTURE: Brands flourish in open cultures run by candid managers. A brand's success reflects transparency. Our fast-moving world demands that a brand be intelligible intuitively even when it isn't grasped easily on an analytical level. [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:02:32+00:00May 26th, 2009|
A Self-Audit to Spur the Process ▪ What have been the most important brand milestones in your industry in the last 2 to 3 decades? Why exactly were they significant? What assumptions did they challenge? [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:00:26+00:00May 19th, 2009|
Earlier this month, Donna Howell wrote a piece on J. M. Lapeyre for Investor's Business Daily. Lapeyre, who died in 1989, noticed something while he was still in high school in the 1940s. It was [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T16:57:59+00:00April 14th, 2009|
We no longer think in a linear fashion, if indeed we ever did think that way. You can't spearhead innovation by marching down a checklist. The mind functions differently, and you'll achieve much more by [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:58:36+00:00March 16th, 2009|
When any upheaval happens, human nature – and most of the media – err on the side of extreme reactions. On February 21, the Bloomberg financial website presented an astute analysis: “Even in the midst [...]
grajgushost2019-09-23T22:00:19+00:00March 9th, 2009|
We live in a 360° world. It's archaic and dangerous to think that the environment we're up against can be reduced to a single, simple, flat image neatly laid out in front of us. We're [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:57:09+00:00March 8th, 2009|
Toy-maker Mattel has opened a six-story House of Barbie in Shanghai, reports NPR, complete with a stage to present fashion shows for kids. Last month, according to the New York Times, Sak’s opened a new [...]
