The Three Leadership Situations

Leadership Axiom 2 - Situational

This is our fifth in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: Strong and Weak Leaders Leadership Situations Leadership is contextual or […]

Strong and Weak Leaders

Strong and Weak Leaders

This is our fourth in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: Self-Leadership – Know Yourself, Show Yourself Strong and Weak Leaders […]

Self-Leadership: Know + Show Yourself

This is our third in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: Three Leadership Axioms Self-Leadership If leadership is a relationship then […]

Three Leadership Axioms

Leadership Axiom 3 - Everywhere

This is our second in a series of posts from the Book Rapper issue Authentic. It’s derived from Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones’ book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You that discusses what it takes to be an authentic leader. Previously in this series: The Authentic Leader. Traditional approaches tend to view leadership as […]

The Authentic Leader

The Authentic Leader

Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones in their book Why Should Anyone Be Led By You discuss what it takes to be an authentic leader. Traditional approaches view leadership as a series of competencies to be learnt and developed. Whereas authentic leaders rely on being themselves and being responsive to the people and situations they encounter. […]

14 Marketing Trends for Thriving in the Digital Era

Meatball Sundae: Thriving in the Digital Marketing Era

        Marketing Trends Marketing trends emerge when the rules of marketing change. And marketing has changed have changed because of the new digital tools. That’s the blunt message from marketing guru Seth Godin in his best-selling book Meatball Sundae. (I summarized as the Book Rapper issue Marketing How-Now). Seth defines 14 marketing trends […]

Marketing Trend: No Gatekeepers

Marketing Trend #14 - No Gatekeepers

This is marketing trend #14 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Consumer Getting Louder In the Old Marketing world, if you could get published in a popular magazine or get on TV you were set. Everyone would see you if only… The real […]

Marketing Trend – Consumers Louder

Marketing Trend #13 - Consumers getting louder!

This is marketing trend #13 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Consumer to Consumers. Complaints hidden – not any more! In the Old Marketing, consumer complaints were easily hidden or ignored! After all, how much noise can one lone voice make? Even the plebian […]

Marketing Trend – Consumers Talk 2

Marketing Trend #12 - Consumers talking to other consumers

This is marketing trend #12 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Consumer to Producer Consumers Talk to Each Other In the Old Marketing, consumers were scattered all over the place with little or no connection to each other. They may have bumped into […]

Marketing Trend: Consumers Talk

Marketing Trend #11 - Consumers to Producers

This is marketing trend #11 in a series of 14 marketing trends adapted from Seth Godin’s book Meatball Sundae. Previously in this series: Blink Attention Consumers Talking to Producers Previously, organizations were able to distant themselves from their customers: Appalling phone service (tell me about it!), employing middle men to sell to us, ignoring email […]