I am in the process of looking for a new role. Yesterday, during an interview, I was asked the ever popular question, “Describe a time you failed.” Let me put this out there – I don’t do failure. What exactly does that mean? “I don’t do failure?” It’s a philosophy on life and on business […]
Insight + Expertise = Results
Insight + Expertise = Results
Tag: leadership
Failure is the Road to Success
Typically my blog entries are focused on marketing, but the idea of failure has been weighing heavily on me lately. Every time I turn around, it seems, there is some new quote about failure making an appearance. It came up not too long ago in the copy of “The Happiness Project” I’m reading. One of […]
Creating Resonance Through Leadership Style
If you remember, in the post entitled Effective Leadership and Emotional Intelligence I promised to discuss leadership styles in my next post, but then skipped them in favor of 2012 marketing trends. This is that promised post. There are, according to Daniel Goleman, six leadership styles and all are effective – when used at the […]
Effective Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Typically, I write more on what I would call hard skills: strategy, research, analytics, etc. but I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about leadership lately, and what makes a good leader. I’ve been in design industry a long time, 19 years, and most of it has included some aspect of marketing, though that didn’t […]