RARE Business: People, Performance, Growth, Marketing and Customer Service
Today’s interview is with Doug Richard made famous in the UK for being one of the first Dragons on the BBC series, Dragon’s Den. More recently Doug started the School for Startups in 2008 to provide accelerated instruction to entrepreneurs and it has grown into a world leader in delivering targeted programs that teach people [...]
Today’s interview is with Phil Barden, MD of decode marketing ltd and author of ‘Decoded. The Science Behind Why We Buy’ and follows on from my recent interview: Employee engagement inside one of the UK’s best companies to work for – Interview with Keith Lewis of Matchtech This interview makes up number fifty in the [...]
Recently, I was listening to an interview with Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, on HBR’s Ideacast series (you can listen to the interview here: Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon) Whilst the whole conversation was only 10 minutes long there a section, in particular, that stood out for me. Here it is, [...]
Today’s interview is with Sarah Wood of Unruly Media and follows on from my recent interview: Social business is not just social media, it takes real transformation – Interview with Brad W Martin and Vala Afshar of Enterasys. Founded in 2006 by Scott Button, Matthew Cooke and Sarah Wood, Unruly has 120+ full time employees [...]
Today’s interview is with Vala Afshar and Brad W. Martin of Enterays who have recently written a book called The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence, which charts Enterasys‘ transformation into a truly social business. This interview follows on from my recent interview with Neville Hobson in Lessons from ten years of blogging and eight years [...]
It’s not very often that I directly promote something that I am up to on my blog. However, today is different because what I’m about to tell you about matters. Over the last year or so, a couple of colleagues and myself have been developing a thing called: The Bridge….a crowdsourced employment and careers resource [...]
Today’s interview is with Jacob Morgan, the Principal & Co-Founder of Chess Media Group, a management consulting and strategic advisory firm focused on collaboration. He has also authored of The Collaborative Organization, a best-selling book on collaboration strategy. Increasing collaboration within organisations using social tools like Chatter, Yammer and Jive etc is increasingly becoming an [...]
Back in November, I shared an interview with you called: Using systems thinking to improve customer satisfaction and employee engagement – Interview with Rob Brown of Aviva. I met Rob at an event run by John Seddon and Vanguard Consulting. John was speaking at the event too and I and was lucky enough to get [...]
Linn, the Glasgow-based maker of upscale audio equipment, was written about in The Economist (15th Dec edition) in an article called Streaming Toddler. I don’t own a Linn product but I do know of the quality of their products and that they have a loyal customer and fan base. Linn make high value, high quality, [...]
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