Design Thinking is… What is Design Thinking–good or bad? a useful approach or a waste of time? innovative or preserving the status quo? I hate to do it again but it’s all in the AND, not the OR. Design Thinking is good and bad, useful and a waste of...
What is your go to? When you have an idea or a recommendation to make are you likely to site a study with data or tell a story? Business often runs on analytical studies, statistics, significant difference. It helps us feel like we are foolproof in our actions. But...
As I was getting ready to de-plane after a business trip two men began to exchange heated words over one’s complaint that the other man was standing in his aisle space. It kept escalating, but luckily the line started moving and then it ended. On the news the...
What makes the difference between great leaders and the rest? I don’t think it is one thing, and not always the same thing for everyone, but I do think it is in transition. In the world before the 24/7 globally connected business world relentlessly coming at you, it...
I was reading an obituary of a former co-worker who died too early and discovered a host of other gifts she had that I had never seen or known. At work, I knew her as a lovely Marketing Professional, a highly capable one. Yet there was a greater dimension to her than...
What does it mean to be part of “The P&G Family”? Nearly 30 years ago I said yes to my job offer at P&G. My motivations were purely ambition related…to start my career at the world’s best marketer to launch my professional self. I had several other offers at...
