Month: March 2016
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Branding is for Bubblebrains
Have you heard about this new term of art in branding? “Brandcuffs.” It sounds like some sort of adult toy. I had to look this up. Turns out that “brandcuffs” are a restrictive style guide, so strict they don’t allow any wiggle room when it comes to conveying the brand. The point of course is…
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RIP, Andy Grove
Best known as the CEO of Intel, Andy Grove was a Holocaust survivor who went through hell: “By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis’ “Final Solution,” the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years…
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What Bad Leaders Have In Common
They seriously think the show cannot go on without them. For example, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is known for her “tight-fisted,” “controlling” management style.Apple’s Steve Jobs was known to be a tyrant.It’s a turnoff. Most people know instinctively that large, top-heavy organizational hierarchies are both costly and wasteful – but it is hard to imagine what…
Management Excellence 