by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 15, 2017
The CEO of a large company lost the audience—his top salespeople—in the first two minutes of his presentation. I was there to witness it. Slides were out of place and financial data was wrong. “Sorry guys. I threw this together last night,” the CEO explained as he...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 14, 2017
In the information age you are only as valuable as your ideas. Your ability to package your ideas with emotion, context, and relevancy is the one skill that will make you more valuable in the next decade. During a visit to the Silicon Valley headquarters of a global...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 12, 2017
“Do you have any fashion tips for me?” Jimmy Fallon recently asked his Tonight Show guest, Project Runway mentor, Tim Gunn. Gunn’s response: “I love your suits. I love the fit of them. You are classically handsome. You have a great physique. You are the funniest...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 10, 2017
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says the best ideas for taking his company into the future are found when he’s practicing the ancient custom of storytelling by a campfire. “Telling a story is one of the best ways we have of coming up with new ideas, and also of...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 9, 2017
On his first day as the new chief executive of GE, John Flannery sent an internal letter to the company’s 300,000 employees. It’s been 16 years since GE has had a new CEO, so Flannery made sure the direction was clear. “I have a relentless focus on three things,”...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Aug 5, 2017
Jo was fifteen when a teacher told her that she wouldn’t make anything out of her life (Jo had dyslexia, a largely misunderstood condition at the time). She dropped out of school, but was determined to prove the teacher wrong. Today, Jo Malone is the name behind a...
