At the Professional Marketing Forum training session for Future Marketing Managers last week I talked about the Finnish quality of “Sisu”. Future Marketing Managers need some Finnish “Sisu” or Japanese “Ganbaru” for success. There isn’t a direct translation in English of this special quality which is part of the Finnish Read More
In the current edition of Professional Marketing magazine http://www.pmforum.co.uk/magazine/index.aspx there’s an article by me on communicating and developing business relationships in multi-cultural and cross cultural business environments. Three key models are explored and some practical guidance is provided. Due to space limits, the following nine dimensions of cultural leadership competencies from Read More
I’ve just read and written a review (for Professional Marketing magazine) of “From products to customers to the human spirit: Marketing 3.0” by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, Iwan Setiawan. It suggests that Marketing 3.0 is where marketing has evolved from being product centric, to consumer centric to being focused on Read More
Most lawyers, surveyors and accountants moan about how many internal meetings they have to attend and what a huge amount of time (and money) is wasted in them. So how do we make our meetings more effective? Common sense and communication The professions are bright people. They understand that effective Read More
On 1st July I went along to the lovely riverside offices of Norton Rose in More London to help lead a discussion on the topic of cultivating a culture of relationship management for a group of senior marketers and HR practitioners from legal, property and accountancy firms at the Managing Read More
