How to facilitate a meeting so you save time and get results

Being a great facilitator will be a skill that will come in handy for the rest of your life, and allow you to minimize time spent in long boring meetings.  I spent much too much time trapped in long boring meetings before I figured out these little tips. 1....

How to handle interruptions

When something unexpected happens while we are speaking, we can be annoyed, we can be distracted, or we can improvise with an open heart and win the room. Remember this violinist the next time things don't go exactly as planned!  

Why Marketers Leave

I was chatting with a friend whose company sells SaaS solutions to marketing executives, and he was lamenting the turnover among senior marketers across organizations of all sizes.  Like him, I have noticed that there seems to be a higher turnover rate among...

What’s your legacy?

The other night, I attended an historic gathering of five deans of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University: Arjay Miller, Robert Jaedicke, A. Michael Spence, and Robert Joss discuss the school’s past and its future, with Dean Garth Saloner...