Telling a Great Business Story Starts With…

Dr. Nick Morgan:  Good stories reveal their structure and they tell you where they’re headed and yet, still provide surprises, so you’re interested. When we go to a Hollywood movie, we have certain expectations. We know things are going to start with a bang. We know that the hero is going to off on a Read More …

How well do you interview?

Steve Portigal (@steveportigal) author of Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights is next weeks podcast guest. Steve is fascinated by the stuff of a culture – its products, companies, consumers, media, and advertising. As he says, all these artifacts and the relationships between them are the rules that define a culture — the stuff Read More …

Instilling the Culture of Disney

This is a transcription from the podcast,  Are you Plusing your Show?, with Doug Lipp. Doug is a world-renowned speaker and acclaimed expert on customer service, leadership, change management and global competitiveness. Doug recently published a book, Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees. Disney U reveals the Read More …

Community is an Organic Construct

An Organization is an inorganic construct. That is why organizations struggle building community.  It seems the harder we try, the more difficult it is. Listen or watch as Rosetta President Tom Adamski explains how communities and relationships are transforming the way companies do business. Tom drives Rosetta’s fast growing Commerce business and oversees Marketing and Read More …

Are you Plusing your Show?

That philosophy is found in the phrase that Walt Disney started and everybody in the Disney Organization knows. It is called “Plusing the Show.” Walt would say: “We have to keep plusing our show, if we ever lose them, meaning the guests, it will take us 10 years to get them back. This is an Read More …

Have you ever seen a Comedian use a PowerPoint?

I will admit that I use a PowerPoint more often than not. It is not because I am trying to dazzle anyone, it is mostly for the sake of being my notes for the process. Seldom do I use a tremendous amount of wording on them, but I need a few key prompts to get Read More …