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How’s That For F*ing Timing?

David A Fields

Stuart Armstrong, the CEO of a digital marketing company in New York City, posted a video on YouTube. Consultants Marketing' Not a promotional message, though. Apparently Stu, a successful executive, always contemplated life as a stand-up comic. Timing,” he repeats.

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The Value of Vision Series – Daniel Burrus

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to converse with Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. They kept solving those unsolvable problems,” Armstrong added, “until one day, there I was—walking the lunar surface.”. Making the Impossible Possible. And here we are, a little over fifty years later.

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Business by Perception

Women on Business

This week has been a blur of promotions for the Lance Armstrong interview and I’ve begun to wonder, how do you protect the image of your company when your company is you? Are we growing in similar ways or are they in a market I need to be in, but can’t get into?’. How do their customers and their staff feel about them’.

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Out with the Old (but Really Great Business Stories), in with the New

Harvard Business Review

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. A recording of the incident went viral.

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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. How do the best CEOs confront that challenge? For 10 years, I worked as a consultant to John Emery, CEO of Emery Worldwide, now part of UPS.

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Make sure you have at least a fifteen- to thirty-second message that is so salient it will be obvious to reporters that it should be featured in the broadcasts. Use catchy words.

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

Strategy Driven

I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. Senior corporate executives, especially those who rose to the rank of CEO, have had to adapt more in their careers than young people who never rise past mid-management. The out-cue was to describe the 1959 Ford model. They will cut and skim. People get what they pay for.

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