AI Fatigue

AI Fatigue

Anthea Stratigos Feb 21, 2025 4 min read

As the bro-sphere stood all-knowing at the inauguration, Lauren Sanchez and her outfit notwithstanding, I kept thinking about email threads…

Hot Button Issues

Hot Button Issues

Anthea Stratigos Feb 14, 2025 3 min read

It’s “OLC season” once again where Outsell Leadership Community members convene to discuss their hot button issues and the CEO topics…

Improv

Improv

Anthea Stratigos Feb 7, 2025 3 min read

Today leaders are improv performers. Is your muscle built? Is agility with a capital A driving you and your leadership team’s day to day…

Outsell Q4/Q1 Sales Benchmark

Outsell Q4/Q1 Sales Benchmark

Anthea Stratigos Jan 31, 2025 3 min read

Once again, we’ve completed our quarterly sales benchmark looking at Q4 and an outlook for Q1. We also asked a few questions about 2024 and…

Pricing

Pricing

Anthea Stratigos Jan 24, 2025 5 min read

I’m taken by the complexity of pricing and how so many high-end hotel and resort properties and airlines now “nickel-and-dime” rather than…

Boomers & Purpose

Boomers & Purpose

Anthea Stratigos Jan 17, 2025 4 min read

A long time ago a client of ours — a CEO of a DC-based company — said in one of our peer group meetings that boomers would be the…

The Difference We Make

The Difference We Make

Anthea Stratigos Jan 10, 2025 3 min read

After a two-week hiatus — we returned to the office Monday.

The Year Ahead

The Year Ahead

Anthea Stratigos Dec 20, 2024 7 min read

Where did 2024 go? If ever a year flew by, this one was it.

Reflection

Reflection

Anthea Stratigos Dec 13, 2024 3 min read

It’s always full throttle around here this time of year. Forget about making our lists and checking them twice and getting ready for…

What Matters Most

What Matters Most

Anthea Stratigos Dec 6, 2024 3 min read

I was all set to write about Thanksgiving. Then turned my attention to luxury brands and how they differentiate or don’t, diminish and…

What Matters Most

What Matters Most

Anthea Stratigos Dec 6, 2024 3 min read

I was all set to write about Thanksgiving. Then turned my attention to luxury brands and how they differentiate or don’t, diminish and…

Introducing Outsell’s New Segment Views

Introducing Outsell’s New Segment Views

Anthea Stratigos Nov 22, 2024 3 min read

It’s exciting to share the first releases of our new Outsell Intelligence suite, a set of market intelligence formats that replace our…

It’s About People

It’s About People

Anthea Stratigos Nov 15, 2024 3 min read

A couple of weeks ago we had a great members-only meeting, confidential and ‘behind closed doors’ about succession and the tips and tricks…

Democracy Won

Democracy Won

Anthea Stratigos Nov 8, 2024 4 min read

Once again, the pollsters, pundits, and press got it so wrong. They are the losers in this election. Just as they were in 2020 and 2016. It…

Outsell Q3/Q4 Sales Benchmark

Outsell Q3/Q4 Sales Benchmark

Anthea Stratigos Nov 1, 2024 4 min read

Once again, we ran our quarterly sales benchmark and industry performance remains sluggish. On one hand we heard at the Outsell Signature…

Where Is the Line?

Where Is the Line?

Anthea Stratigos Oct 25, 2024 3 min read

In late September, a colleague in the UK sent a link to an article about the Economist Group canceling an event focused on cancer within…

Succession

Succession

Anthea Stratigos Oct 18, 2024 3 min read

While the real-life version plays out in front of all of us — Rupert Murdoch’s family drama as non-fiction to Logan Roy’s fiction — I…

The A-Z of the 2024 Outsell Signature Event

The A-Z of the 2024 Outsell Signature Event

Anthea Stratigos Oct 11, 2024 3 min read

Our theme for this year’s Signature Event reflected the evolution of artificial intelligence technologies, and the move from hype to…

Keynotes — The Outsell Signature Event

Keynotes — The Outsell Signature Event

Anthea Stratigos Oct 4, 2024 2 min read

Three don’t-miss keynotes as a matter of fact. This year’s program for the Outsell Signature Event, co-produced with JEGI CLARITY is…

You’re Covered

You’re Covered

Anthea Stratigos Sep 27, 2024 3 min read

Last year at the Outsell Signature Event, we began a journey to intelligent work with a program that took us through the emerging world of…

Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire

Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire

Anthea Stratigos Sep 19, 2024 3 min read

How nice it was this week to see our very own David Worlock, honored by ALPSP, receiving the ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly…

Circle of Secrets

Circle of Secrets

Anthea Stratigos Sep 13, 2024 3 min read

While news continues to unfold about the licensing deals between big publishers and big tech, Wiley’s numbers and T&F’s are out there; and…

Oil & Water

Oil & Water

Anthea Stratigos Sep 6, 2024 3 min read

One can’t help but be startled by these headlines just a few days apart, let alone their irony.

Doing Things Backwards

Doing Things Backwards

Anthea Stratigos Aug 30, 2024 4 min read

It boggles my mind that our data is out there for all the world to see. The dark web runs amok with all kinds of, well, dark, bad things…

Soft Landing

Soft Landing

Anthea Stratigos Aug 23, 2024 6 min read

Life can be cruel. One moment you are staring at goats. The next you’re reading about the sudden departure of CEOs in industry who were…