How to sell ideas
The latest post by Steve Sammartino
A decade ago I got a business lesson I’ll never forget. A vital one for people who trade in ideas, creative output, concepts and the like. At the time, I was working as the head… [ READ POST ]
Three Skills Your Future Depends On
October 9, 2020
Once you’ve made it to the upper echelon of any field – you only need three core competencies: Strategy, Finance and People It doesn’t matter which industry you are in – these are the three… [ READ POST ]
Graduate to Greatness
October 2, 2020
To make it to the upper echelon in any field, we need to be able to do one thing: Graduate from competence to confidence. The foundation of any career is technical capability. You need to… [ READ POST ]
Divided by Algorithms – COVID-19 series
September 18, 2020
Regardless of whether you support Daniel Andrews’s lockdown or want to give him the boot and open up, here’s what I know to be true for both parties. They see what they already believe. For… [ READ POST ]
The Worst Advice Ever – COVID-19 series
September 4, 2020
All or nothing is not a good strategy. It ignores probability. You’ve heard the story about burning your boats, right? Legend has it that in 1519, after the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in the… [ READ POST ]
Don’t Be Evil? – COVID-19 series
August 21, 2020
Don’t be evil…? To your shareholders, at least. You may have noticed on the homepages of Google and YouTube this week an announcement claiming that the way you search on Google and use YouTube is at… [ READ POST ]
The End of the Cinema? – COVID-19 series
August 13, 2020
The crisis for the cinema industry didn’t start when COVID did – it’s been a slow burn problem for a very long time. The current crisis just accelerated the inevitable. The future of cinema sharply… [ READ POST ]