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 …
Most of us are confident of our memories. Yet, when it comes to important events, our memories might be less reliable than we think. Here is an example from The New Yorker of a study which vividly illustrates this point. “The day following the explosion of the Challenger, in January, 1986, Ulric Neisser, then a professor of cognitive psychology at Emory, and his assistant, Nicole Harsch, handed out a questionnaire about the event to the hundred and six students in their …
Good morning,The most important lesson to remember as a leader is that, for almost everyone, work is difficult. Keep in mind that, no matter how good a leader you are, how enjoyable a workplace you create, how well you empower your workers, they call it “work” for a reason. Philip Levine is a poet who captures this sentiment in his poem about auto workers, “What Work Is.” In honor of Mr. Levine’s passing this weekend, I encourage you to …
While most of us are pretty good at making daily to do lists, we generally have a much harder time being reflective. In today’s post I present a method that I have been using to become more reflective. There are basically two steps; one to do first thing in the morning, and the other to do in the evening. Step One: Think about your day ahead and what will be required of you to make it a good day. …