All in Leadership
Today is Day 2 of my week long series featuring the works of Takashi Murakami.
If you, like me, believe that there is an art to business, to our careers and to our lives, then I think you'll find this series (along with the quotes and excerpts I've included) especially interesting.
It seems obvious to say that a business should be managed for long term value and not for short term gain. After all, the goal of any commercial venture is to embed sustainable profitability and ensure enduring growth.
But this isn't as easy to implement as it may seem.
Seen at Ping Pong restaurant in Covent Garden in London.
In my last post, I discussed the importance of not asking your customer what they want, specifically if the goal is to disrupt the market. It was meant as a provocative post to get us thinking about when it makes sense to gauge customers for your next idea versus when it doesn't.
In response, i received some interesting feedback.
In business today, we are told to believe that the customer is always right.
So surely it makes sense to to ask their opinion, listen to them, and actively respond to their advice with new products, adjustments and enhancements.
When we think of leadership, we often tend to think of it as this larger than life, grand personality characteristic that is essentially an intrinsically developed ability.
The nature of much of the public discourse on the subject is such that it tends to focus on the grand gesture...
Welcome back to Part 2 of the Omerisms Podcast and my interview with Brian Slobodow.
In this episode, Brian and I continue our conversation around his experiences in the management consulting industry and where it is headed.
Welcome to Episode 4 of the Omerisms podcast, where I interview interesting people and discuss, explore and debate interesting business, career and personal development topics.
“The real world isn’t a place – it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying.” (Rework, Jason Fried & David Heinenmeier Hansson)
What's your role?
Welcome to Episode 3 of the Omerisms podcast, where I discuss, explore and debate interesting business, career and personal development topics.
This month's podcast is a bit different from the first two...
Welcome back to Part 2 of the Omerisms Podcast on Retail in India featuring my conversation with Raman Mangalorkar.
As I mentioned in Part 2 of the podcast, Raman and I get into the details of the state of the sector in India and speak to some of its interesting nuances.
The curate (clergy who are assistants to a parish priest) is eating breakfast at his bishop's house.
The bishop says to him, "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones."
The curate does not want to offend his host (and ultimate boss), responds,
