Listening, Learning, Leading: What’s Next for the Outsell CEO Network
We have been on a listening tour with members over the past few months and based on your extraordinary feedback we are tuning elements of…
Big B’s
It was a matter of time. Reading an article the other day about a bread and butter ‘analytic firm’ made me laugh when I saw this: …. In an…
Be Kind
I am introspective this week. There has been tragedy among family and friends that leaves me shaken. Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week…
TRMan’s Brother
TRMan has a colleague in another division sending similar emails, (or GenAI is doing it for him) only this time it went to our head of…
AI Licensing
Somebody asked me this week what I thought about AMA and NEJM licensing to Open Evidence and earlier, Wolters Kluwer and LexisNexis to…
Outsell CEO Summit
Excited to share plans for October 8 in London where we are hosting select CEOs, COOs, MDs, & Presidents by-invitation for a meeting one…
Your Answers
Outsell clients have the benefit of a feature we call ‘inquiry privilege.’ It’s the ability to ask questions (in confidence) about thorny…
Gartner & Sales
It was a matter of time. Not months or years. Nanosecond time. We see it when big boulders start to roll downhill. They move gradually…
Inside Out and Upside Down
It’s another week when someone predicts the big tear-down. This time, it’s BigTech vs. BigFour.
Bloomberg’s “Terminal”
It starts with LinkedIn and someone boasting about AI and its replacement of something big, bold, popular — in this case the Bloomberg…
Hamster Wheel
I received this note from a Thomson Reuters sales rep and so did another colleague who is no longer with our company. The whole thing…
Technology 4 — Tradition 1
It’s been a rough week for tradition. First, after 148 years the Wimbledon line judge is no more; the game will now rely on Hawk-Eye…
Prompt Happy
When news of OpenAI’s ChatGPT broke, which now feels like a decade ago, we made that year’s meta-theme AI Everywhere All at Once.
Outsell Leadership Community
Forget Elon and Trump; the bro-break-up of the week is Altman and Nadella. Scientific Journals remain in justice department crosshairs…
Glass Half Full
The entire internet was just translated in 18 days. Thank you Nvidia. Debates continue about where defensible moats will be in an AI era…
Who Owns My Data?
So now AI is listening in at doctor’s visits — a la ‘ambient notetaking,’ designed to let docs spend more time with patients. Afterall…
AI & Data Licensing
Last week, writing about copyright and IP under assault by big tech, our industry under existential threat, Thomson Reuters vs. Ross…
Dinosaurs & Alligators
An article on LinkedIn this week says Google is toast. Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital reported disappointing Q1 results with more online…
Outsell Q1/Q2 Sales Benchmark
The results are in, our members had a good discussion with resident expert Christine Rogers about what they’re experiencing on the sales…
Spring Forward
Yup — a new time for Outsell Accelerate! — change your clock and mark your calendar!
On My Mind
There is good news after all! While my belief in humanity is restored by this Boston Marathon runner, I am thinking about marketing again…
Tea Leaves
We are heading to Outsell’s 31st anniversary next week and last year’s blog reflected the tech cycles we have seen and the economic ones…
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