Music Business Rammstein's staging Precision 61 hours. 7 days. Time lapse of the precision required to build Rammstein's concert stage.
Marketing You can learn b2b marketing in school, and should "You can’t learn B2B marketing in school." Another Linkfluencer marketing trope is simply wrong.
Marketing Marketing budget benchmarks A guide to marketing budgets and investments for 2022. Supported by research from Gartner and Deloitte.
Marketing Content marketing, meet the media business Marketers who view their content program as a media property will win in 2022. Here's how to do it.
Marketing Category creation ≠ Demand generation Category creation is not demand generation It's a hard-won skill where better customer experience wins.
Marketing From the music business to tech, Australia to the U.S. I was recently interviewed for the ZAG blog, where I shared my career journey from managing bands to marketing information technology.
Business How to talk to a non-technical board about IT investments As you progress in your career, you’ll need to present to the board. Here's how to do it to get the things you need.
Marketing A formula for marketing success Most B2B companies don’t have the patience to do actual Marketing. They chase numbers they can change quickly, not numbers that actually matter.
Business Bourdain on Teams Anthony Bourdain explains why a kitchen is a true meritocracy, and why there's no room for "cultural baggage."
Marketing Technology isn't the process The last thing we think about is technology. Tech isn’t the process. Here is how executives thing about tech investments.
Principles What Margin Call teaches us about leadership There's a point in every founder's career where they choose to remain an entrepreneur, or become a CEO.
Principles Remembering 9/11, In Memoriam Like most my memory of 9/11 is as vivid as if it happened yesterday. Remembering those we lost on September 11, 2001. We will never forget.
Business How Ransomware Will Impact the Ag Industry The Ag industry is now a ransomware target, along with America's critical infrastructure.
Business Here's why Chris Sacca will keep winning Which business is Chris Sacca really in? While many VCs are in the money management business, Sacca was off hiring a CAA agent.
Business A tiny year of business travel, 2019 in review Revisiting pre-COVID business travel as we look ahead to the global economy reopening. Will it ever be as much fun again?
Marketing A model for explaining product marketing time-to-value In this post I will introduce a simple model marketers can use to explain the delta between their marketing activity and the time-to-value.
Year With No Beer A Year With No Beer, Redux 3 #YWNB Over the past decade, I stopped drinking alcohol periodically. One year. Two years. Join me in 2021 as I do another Year With No Beer.
Business Drive to Survive: The Return of Formula One In its third action-packed season, Netflix' series Formula 1: Drive to Survive is the most captivating insight inside the world of Formula One ever produced.
Marketing Brand building and the illusion of control For all the effort marketers put into building brands, the funny thing is we don’t control how you feel. A brand is only as good as a customers’ last experience.
Technology How to commercialize open source If software is eating the world, open source is eating software. OSS projects have more opportunity than ever before.
Principles A day in the life: 2020 and the great reset It's Saturday morning. 10am and I'm on my third coffee. 2020 is a reset year, if you haven't worked that out. Let's reset.
Marketing Principle-first vs process-driven marketing A new way to understand the type of marketer you're about to hire, and how you can predict their performance in advance.
Marketing Customers aren't inside your building The only way to understand humans, is to spend time with humans. Why do marketers work within the confines of four walls?
Technology Solving the last mile, just not with scooters Scooters are the craze du jour, littering the streets of our cities. Why then are VCs pumping hundreds of millions into scooter apps?
Business Competing with last best experiences How United blew their one shot at capturing a high value customer from Delta. One shot to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
