Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won’t

December, 2009    SAI-048 Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won’t The full title of this article, published in the Journal of Strategic Marketing, is Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won’t: what the connected perspectives of motivation theory and...

Inside the modern salesforce

October, 2009    O2N-008 Inside the modern salesforce Business to Business (B2B) sales operations is very different from business to consumer (B2C) selling. The traditional salesperson is fast becoming obsolete but, as with many things in...

Culture Kaleidoscope

October, 2009    SMM-051 Culture Kaleidoscope Managing the myriad of perspectives within the marketing team is fraught with complications. It takes skill to manage cultural differences without too much conflict, but to do so is rewarded with better...

Caged Companies

September, 2009    O2N-007 Caged Companies When was the last time you heard someone in your company or organisation talk about change? Changing strategies, changing business models, changing culture, changing attitudes. Modern management philosophy...

Spot the Difference

July, 2009    O2N-006 Spot the Difference If I’m ever invited onto the Today programme and forced to come up with a sound bite about how to spot the difference between successful firms and failures, I think I’d have the answer: Beware...

Overcoming “them and us”

November, 2009    SFP-016 Overcoming “them and us” When we strongly identify with our group, we instinctively identify against people in other groups. However, this persistence of stone-age group identity thinking doesn’t help us in the...