Today’s rant is based on the results of a Harris Interactive study concerning how the public feels about corporations. Actually, it’s pretty specific when it comes to individual corporate reputations and I think the results are kind of grim. Let’s see what you think. You can read the summary document of the study here and I think it’s worth a few minutes of your time. As with most research, what’s meaningful isn’t so much where the results indicate corporate reputation is at any particular point in time but what the trend lines indicate over time. In this case, they indicate that the public is paying attention, and it reminds me of Mark Antony‘s speech in Julius Caesar: “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.” Continue reading
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Stand There And Sing
Did you watch the Grammy Awards last night? There were some remarkable performances and of course I took away a business point from a few of them. Actually, the point first occurred to me a week or two ago as I watched Adele perform on an episode of Live From The Artists Den. She was in a small venue, accompanied by just a pianist and an acoustic guitar. No frills, just a young woman, some basic support, and her voice. It was remarkable.
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Watching her again last evening, as well as the moving tribute to Whitney Houston by Jennifer Hudson, the business point hit me again so I’d like to share it this morning. Continue reading
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Jumping To Conclusions
Another business lesson from politics today. Then again, politics is a business so I’m not sure why I sound a little surprised. Despite the fact that I don’t express political points of view in this space, I guess you can tell I pay a lot of attention to that business as well as the ones I write about more often.
We’re in the midst of primary season for one party. Unless you’re under a rock, you have probably heard that former governor Romney just won the Florida primary pretty convincingly and there are calls for other candidates to admit defeat and let Romney focus on the general election. The three other remaining candidates have refused to pack it in, and therein lies the business lesson. Continue reading
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