Our CEO Series bi-monthly events at Grill 23 continue to attract an engaged and engaging audience of CEOs. Topics have ranged from “Social Media for CEOs” to last week’s event, “The CEO as Brand.” Speaker Israel Ganot, CEO and co-founder of Gazelle, shared his story and how he is working on different ways he can…
The measure of any successful company is its ability to affect sustainable growth while maintaining strong cash flow and a healthy balance sheet. The measure of any successful country is roughly the same: a growing GDP, consistent surpluses, and a portfolio of tangible and intangible assets that easily cover its tangible and intangible liabilities. The…
I just finished reading an excellent New Yorker article by Malcolm Gladwell entitled “Tweakers“. The gist is this: not unlike the concept of the Last Mile, the truth of much of the innovation that has changed the world is that its societal significance has come as much from the innovators who refined the original idea…
So we sit here today in a heap of mess. No jobs, a tsunami of home foreclosures, a mountain of debt, an almost insolvent Medicare and Social Security system, a broken financial system, the government printing way too much money and corporate America ground to a halt. And for my little industry, agencies bleeding red, [...]
Okay, it’s been a while. I haven’t posted in months. It’s not for a lack of thought, but rather wanting to make sure that what I think (and share) is actually of relevance. And that’s the topic for today. Relevance. A few weeks back I saw an old movie called “He’s Just Not That Into [...]