AI Fatigue
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
It’s “OLC season” once again where Outsell Leadership Community members convene to discuss their hot button issues and the CEO topics…
Improv
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
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
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
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
After a two-week hiatus — we returned to the office Monday.
The Year Ahead
Where did 2024 go? If ever a year flew by, this one was it.
Reflection
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One can’t help but be startled by these headlines just a few days apart, let alone their irony.
Doing Things Backwards
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
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…
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