by Editor | May 19, 2011 | Business Development
More than 550 health professionals and organizations have signed a letter to McDonald’s Corp, asking the maker of Happy Meals to stop marketing junk food to kids and to retire Ronald McDonald today. These advocates have run a full-page ad in six newspapers, stating...
by Carol Sanford | May 11, 2011 | Business Development
This blog was initially posted on Forbes blogger Steve Denning’s site 1. You have worked with teams that have no supervision. You call them Buyer Node Teams. Please tell us about them. Buyer node teams are champions for a set of customers or consumers. In a...
by Carol Sanford | May 9, 2011 | Business Development
Early in my academic career, a seasoned manager of a Fortune 500 company told me that his superior had reprimanded him, repeatedly, for only infrequently submitting the names of his people for special corporate recognition programs. His boss felt that this group, or...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 28, 2011 | Business Development
Leadership is a much spoken about and highly misunderstood subject. It is most often seen as a role of inspiration and motivation. But leadership that ensures a business’s success and its responsibility is neither of these—it is something very different. Responsible...
by Carol Sanford | Mar 24, 2011 | Business Development
Mar 24, 2011 – This article was first posted at Matthew E. May’s American Express Open Forum Blog. I earlier reviewed Matt’s book, The Shibumi Strategy, with a Q & A here. There is growing appreciation for the idea that social responsibility is...