Claire Strickett wrote a blog post titled Hunting Byron Sharp in the Wild (December 2016).
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Bill Birchard wrote an article for Harvard Business Review (July-August 2021) titled The Science of Strong Business Writing.
Continue reading “Bill Birchard on The Science of Strong Business Writing.”Acquiring the First Thousand Customers
Michael Blanding wrote an article for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge titled How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers (13 July 2016). The article is about Harvard Business School’s Thales Teixeira’s research about how platform companies attract their first customers.
Continue reading “Acquiring the First Thousand Customers”Adam Grant on shooting the messenger
Adam Grant tweeted about the difference between weak, strong, and great leaders.
Continue reading “Adam Grant on shooting the messenger”Ritson’s 10 traits of a successful marketer
Matthew Valentine wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Ritson on the 10 traits of a successful marketer.
Continue reading “Ritson’s 10 traits of a successful marketer”Matt Lerner says Personas are worthless for marketing
Matt Lerner posted a thread on Twitter about personas. “At PayPal, I once wasted $1M on a marketing segmentation to build personas. Here’s what we actually learned, plus what I now do instead.”
Continue reading “Matt Lerner says Personas are worthless for marketing”Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering
Michael Easter wrote an article for Men’s Health titled The ’20-5-3′ Rule Prescribes How Much Time to Spend Outside.
Continue reading “Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering”Marketing is an opportunity maximization game, not an efficiency optimization game
Charlotte Rogers wrote an article for MarketingWeek titled Rory Sutherland: Marketers should see capitalism as a ‘discovery mechanism’
Continue reading “Marketing is an opportunity maximization game, not an efficiency optimization game”Kurtosis as a measure of risk
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“Kurtosis identifies whether the tails of a given distribution contain extreme values.”
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Thomas J. Pence wrote a blog post titled Long Weekends and Leadership.
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