Is it my imagination or has it been a weird week?

If I’d been a cheerleader and had some pom poms it would be great to turn that into a cheer. We need some cheer. The week ended and started…

There aren’t too many people who will fess up to loving their law firm let alone admitting they’ve worked with it forever. Moons ago, our…

Once again, we completed our quarterly benchmark on sales performance in our industry and the outlook for Q3. We’ve been doing this with…

In 2016 I had a conversation with a leader in the UK who asked me if I thought Trump had a chance becoming the Republican Presidential…

It’s inevitable with new technology. FT this morning calls it an AI bubble. Gartner’s hype cycle has its trough of disillusionment. Paul…

I woke up this morning to the Outsell Doorway reading that Strat7 named a new COO. Hah! Imposter. Strat7? Great name but man better to be…

Ahh for best laid plans to log-off for two weeks. My typical annual vacation schedule is fall. The tourists are back home, everyone’s…

It’s that time of year. I’m signing off and taking a break. It’s also a good time to send a little reminder as we begin summertime: It’s ok…

One of the questions I’m asked often is “how are others using Outsell in ways I’m not.” Our clients get curious about their peers and…

Just when things start to get going, going starts to stop. The US economy in particular has been resilient but with gasoline over $6.00 a…

There are pieces we write that have industry-wide implications and this latest analysis about FT’s licensing deal with OpenAI is one of…

Thank you to all of you who have sent such kind notes acknowledging last week’s blog post celebrating our 30th year. You really know how to…

You could say this post took 30 years to write and it wouldn’t be completely wrong. This is a long-one so grab a cup of coffee and lean in.

It’s impossible to believe what’s coming out of Nike these days. First see-through baseball uniforms; and then women’s Olympic team garb…

Each year our Outsell Leadership Community members, largely CEOs, COOs, MDs & Presidents meet F2F in London and on the East Coast…

Virtual Whisperer 5 — Performance Management I wrote earlier about the irony of people’s performance showing even more in a virtual environment when they are on either end of the performance spectrum: outstanding or just so-so. How do we manage performance in this…

What a dizzying week. Sam Bankman-Fried gets the book thrown at him. (There is justice!) Inflation in developed economies is proving harder…

The NY Times reports 8 incidents on United of late and right about the same time its Premier members receive an email about safety from…

The NY Times reports 8 incidents on United of late and right about the same time its Premier members receive an email about safety from…

While the state of California decides that financial literacy is as important as cursive the rest of our world is figuring out win/loss and…

Late September, with economic clouds and headwinds in full tilt I wrote about the buying and selling climate for data and information…

Product Management Crossroads We have been analyzing and benchmarking the product management function in our industry for the last 20 plus years as the industry became software (tech) enabled and modern PM functions became the norm. We developed a methodology…

We have used Stern Strategy Group to source speakers from time to time and a week or so ago I received the wordle above with a note:

OpenAI introduced Sora last week and in and outside of Outsell the world was atwitter. My colleagues speculated about loss of CGI animation…