by Tim Hayden | Jun 7, 2018 | Leadership
I’m sorry. How often do you hear those words? I mean hear them applied really sincerely. These days, probably not much. The journalist Ambrose Bierce lived from 1842 to 1914 and in The Devil’s Dictionary, he wrote that to apologize was “to lay the foundation for...
by Tim Hayden | May 22, 2018 | Leadership
Last week, we were treated to one of the major conflicts of our time. It was not global superpowers at loggerheads, but rather the Internet, looking to skewer itself over the audio clip known as Yanny or Laurel. To me, the most fascinating part of this was not the...
by Tim Hayden | May 9, 2018 | Customer Experience
Last week’s commentary began with a focus on Big Tech – how Facebook and Google hold a duopoly in digital advertising – and ended with a call for brands to own their data. Given that the piece mostly focused on the former, we’d like to explore the latter a...
by Tim Hayden | Mar 7, 2018 | AI (artificial intelligence), Customer Experience, Innovation, Strategy
In a previous post my colleague Scott Monty shared a word on The Silent Brand Killer, a brief note on the very real threat of brand dilution and competition that Amazon represents to just about any consumer-facing business. Today, we take a look at one of the...
by Tim Hayden | Mar 2, 2018 | Customer Experience, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy
(Photo credit: Jason Thibault via Flickr Creative Commons) One of the most overused terms in entrepreneurship is “pivot.” You’ve undoubtedly seen it used by various startups, and it seems like they’re trying to fix a broken business. Or it may...