The End by @alexmdc7 “The taste of the roast is often determined by the handshake of the host.” — Benjamin Franklin The Internet and resulting E-commerce has changed retail forever, no surprise there. What is surprising and incomprehensible…
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Staying in Day 1 — Disruptive Leadership Lessons from Jeff Bezos
Groundhog Day Movie If you have not already read Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders, I highly recommend it. (The link is at the end of this post) What Bezos calls staying in Day 1 is the…
Influencer Marketing — Influencers, Screws, Reviews
Bernard Goldbach https://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/ In the 1860’s a prominent machinist named William Sellers set out on a mission to standardise the common screw. Importantly, this was a screw by his own design. At that time, screws…
Cannibals: 3 Trillion, 2 Pizzas and 1 Helluva wake up call
http://www.webnebber.com/kitchen-sink/cannibal-marshmallows-shirt/ There is a great anecdote that goes as follows… A big corporation had hired several cannibals. “You are all part of our team now,” said the HR director during the welcome briefing. “You get…
All Good Things… Marshmallows, Amazon, Leadership and Thinking Long
Thanks to Threadless In the 1960s Stanford professor and psychologist Walter Mischel carried a study, which became known as the Stanford marshmallow experiment. It went like so; children were offered a choice between having one…
Ryanair — Amazon of the Air or Amazon Air?
There are 55 known business models available in the world and only a few are applied by businesses. This is because very few business ask themselves some fundamental questions and thus find their business model…