My son, Dan, and his bride Katrina’s were married in Mexico last week. I enjoyed spending several days with folks considerably younger than myself, and over the course of the week I recognized that things have changed more than I’d realized. The values of young people are considerably different than my own and those of my generation. Here are a few my observations and my speculation about the implications for business. Young people value experiences over possessions. This generation …
I admit, I am a self-improvement junkie. I have been reading self-improvement books since I was a teenager. I’ve also written seven of them myself. I see life as a continuous learning process. Call me a wide-eyed optimist, but I continue to believe that no matter what our age, no matter what our condition, if we put our minds to it, we can get better and better everyday, in every way. In my obsession with self-improvement, I have developed …
Thirty-three years ago this month, on Detroit Street in Ann Arbor, I walked into a tiny space which had once been a nondescript grocery store. I quickly hit it off with the friendly two young owners who described how they were opening the first Jewish deli in Ann Arbor. As good as the food and the service was, I never could have guessed that 33 years later these two kids, one from Detroit and the other from Chicago, would …
As a consumer, how frustrated are you with the current state of advertising? As business leader, how uncertain are you about how to spend (and how much to spend) on advertising and marketing? At the next Leaders Connect breakfast on 3/13, Bob Chunn (formerly of Borders and now CEO of ContentOro) will help us gain clarity on this topic by analyzing the massive and exciting changes happening in marketing. We can readily see that traditional marketing and advertising just doesn’t work …
UM Professor Elliott Soloway, who joined us at the Leaders Connect breakfast event I host monthly, has a powerful message educators and business leaders. Changes are occurring in how we learn. No longer do we have to rely on memorization. Because we’re always connected, it is easy enough to look up facts online. We are moving toward a new model of learning that emphasizes the values of inquisitiveness and collaboration. With advances in technology, successful students are those who …