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…
Going to the Goats
Is it my imagination or has it been a weird week?
Loving a Law Firm
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…
Outsell Q2/Q3 Sales Benchmark
Once again, we completed our quarterly benchmark on sales performance in our industry and the outlook for Q3. We’ve been doing this with…
Twists & Turns — The Geopolitical Outlook
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…
AI Hype to Reality
It’s inevitable with new technology. FT this morning calls it an AI bubble. Gartner’s hype cycle has its trough of disillusionment. Paul…
AI and Generative AI is Not Going Anywhere
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…
OLC Themes — 2024 Spring Meetings
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…
OOO and O
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…
What Are Your Hot Button Issues?
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…
A Virtuous Circle
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…
OpenAI and FT Licensing Deal: Old News, New Value
There are pieces we write that have industry-wide implications and this latest analysis about FT’s licensing deal with OpenAI is one of…
Lab-less Lab
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…
Happy 30th Outsell
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.
Licensing Content to Big Tech
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…
OLC Winter Meeting Themes
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
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…
A Renaissance of the Trades
What a dizzying week. Sam Bankman-Fried gets the book thrown at him. (There is justice!) Inflation in developed economies is proving harder…
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