There’s a saying, usually attributed to Hewlett Packard co-founder David Packard, that marketing is too important to leave to the marketing department. This sentiment has caused many marketing practitioners to lament that people throughout the business now Read More
In his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t, Jim Collins talks at some length about being a hedgehog. What’s that, you say? Well, the story of “The Hedgehog and the Fox” is originally attributed to a phrase by the Greek Read More
I’m just coming off of an immensely satisfying business gathering that I’ve not missed over many years. It’s a gathering of some of the smartest, most emotionally connected people I’ve ever met. (How I ever got invited, I don’t know – but they’re stuck Read More
I have a content campfire story for you. Once upon a time, a company that still lives today was founded in a city by the bay. It has lived its entire life in the digital age. It was founded around the time that many of today’s social platforms emerged, Read More
Last week at Content Marketing World, I realized a lifelong goal when I met and interviewed John Cleese. Today it hit me: I had planned it all along. I’ll come back to this in a moment so that you can see how that dream fulfilled fits with a talk that I Read More
I'm just returning from an exhaustive, and exhilarating, week of amazing people at Content Marketing World, and after speaking with so many people about a common challenge, I’m thinking of one of my favorite Hollywood quotes. It comes from William Goldman Read More
