How Anne Sweeney Is Changing the Way We Watch TV
In the beginning, every business thought social networking was an advertising tool. “We quickly realized that it isn’t. In fact, you are kicked out of the club if you are there flogging a new show,” says Anne Sweeney, the president of Disney/ABC Television, who is featured in the April 2014 issue of SUCCESS. (To read […]
The Things That Keep the Chief of Disney/ABC Awake at Night
Reading List: Moments of Impact
The authors are “on a mission to eradicate time-sucking, energy-depleting workshops and meetings,” a goal that we can all celebrate. Chris Ertel and Lisa Kay Solomon are proponents of “strategic conversations,” which differ from a regular meeting or a brainstorming session in both design and agenda. A strategic conversation is an interactive problem-solving session with […]
How to Build Your Company to Fit Its Culture
John C. Maxwell: Grace Under Fire
Once, about 14 years ago, I really thought I was about to die. You don’t forget details from a moment like that. It was during a 21-city tour to promote a new book, and my team and I were aboard a Learjet heading to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Georgia. We were maybe 100 feet from the […]
5 Questions to Find Out If You’re a Grump
Find out where you rank on this quiz adapted from Jon Gordon’s The No Complaining Rule (Wiley, 2008). Read the five statements below and then select the response that best describes how strongly you agree or disagree with each. At the end, total your score to see where you fall in the complaining scale—along with […]
Sheryl Sandberg: Why You Should Take Credit for Your Successes
Reading List: Scaling Up Excellence
Scaling up a business—whether transitioning from startup to prime time, growing a company’s market reach, increasing (or shrinking) its workforce, expanding its product line or ratcheting up its performance—is a challenge fraught with potential peril, say Stanford professors Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D., and Huggy Rao, Ph.D. The authors of Scaling Up Excellence spent seven years […]
Celebrate Failure
Jeff Bezos: The Amazon Story
Gary Vaynerchuk Weighs in on Your Social Media Challenges
Reading List: The Business Book
Along with its popular travel guides, DK is well-known for its graphically rich reference books that distill complex subjects into concise, comprehensible portions. In DK’s new addition to its reference library, the editors take on the business world, drilling down to come up with easy-to-digest explanations of entrepreneurial and corporate strategies, concepts and theories, such […]
