I have invested 22 years studying and experimenting with holistic mental hygiene habits. And I will never stop learning. It’s a fascinating field of study. I’m passing along many that work well for me and my CEO coaching clients.
August 22, 2022
Now is the perfect time to step up, reduce attrition of your best talent, and, in turn, dramatically boost brand repute. This is a marketer’s moment in the sun.
July 5, 2022
Marketing innovation is about applying creativity to improve your stakeholders’ condition. It requires us to challenge our established beliefs and assumptions. It often also demands that we learn from our past as a way to inform our future. We often need to set aside the past, and begin with a clean slate. This process helps us design an empowering narrative to guide us forward. It bolsters our resilience.
That’s the underlying theme of our 6th annual CMOs Leading Innovation Conference (CLIC ’22): “Growth Curves Ahead: The Resilient CMO.”
We’re gathering in historic Charleston, South Carolina at the International African American Museum….
May 4, 2022
Did you encounter a silver lining from the past pandemic era?
I certainly did. I witnessed an extraordinary number of people who paused, and confronted their existential crisis head-on.
In The Earned Life, Marshall Goldsmith and co-author Mark Reiter meticulously capture the existential moments that we endured. In Section One, Marshall describes how CEO clients become goal-obsessed. It leaves them feeling empty and deflated. He has witnessed these behaviors at the highest levels;…
February 23, 2022
We’re living in a time of marketing liminality. Some leaders feel as if they have one hand clinging to their Zoom rooms and one hand clinging to a dusty office HQ desk.
This messy middle moment is fueled by ever-changing customer expectations, dynamic workplace configurations, and high team turnover. (I started to see these challenges emerge in 2018 and published 3 posts about them here.)
There is a silver lining to this liminal marketing moment….
December 21, 2021
Two years into the pandemic, things still feel heavy. To cope, some professionals have turned to self-medication versus meditation (or other healthy habits).
For many of us marketers, our creative candles have flamed out.
Instead of focusing on discussing the theme, “The Great Resignation,” what if we made 2022 “The Year of PLAY?”
In Episode 51, we explore the connection of PLAY to performance with my colleague, Gary Ware.
You may think I’m glossing over the severity of the pandemic….
December 21, 2021
For marketing leaders, 2021 was a year to remember—and not repeat!
Customer expectations shifted rapidly. Some great marketers left their lofty roles to be their own bosses. In fact, recent Labor Department data show that the number of unincorporated self-employed workers has risen by 500,000 since the pandemic.
Many top team members either resigned or re-tooled, leaving costly gaps.
One of my top clients, for example, had to delay a new product launch valued at $1B because of talent gaps and burned-out teams. …
November 30, 2021
When it comes to our careers and our customer relationships, the way we FEEL frames our reality.
Yet there is a “reality paradox” happening in our workplaces.
On the one hand, we are witnessing declining unemployment (now 4.8% in the USA), soaring corporate and consumer spending, and a frenetic hiring pace for marketing and CX professionals. 50% of my clients have either been promoted or changed careers in the past 22 months.
On the other hand, drug overdoses in the USA have surpassed 100,000 this year….
October 12, 2021
At least half of our marketing clients and community members are actively seeking or being recruited for very financially attractive roles. How can you adapt to the new hiring and recruiting processes without selling your soul?