You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. Announces Social Media, Branding & Diversity Strategies" by @ bizshrink. Breaking an established rule usually comes with a measure of risk. What do you think?

Maturity 50

Maturity Blog Merchandising McCarthy 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

As fast as we could pin an idea on the wall, some red-faced account manager in a bad suit would run away with it. Economically I probably helped shift some merchandise. Then before we knew it, we were eating Pot-Noodles at our desks, and taking it in turns to go home and see our kids before they went to bed.

Advertising 265

Advertising Creativity Industry Bottom-up 265

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Your human resources aren’t trying to decipher what skills and behaviors will be needed in the future, or maintaining performance evaluation systems that are out of sync with your values.

Brand 8

Brand Company Operations Merchandising 8