I always enjoy reading Ron Shevlin‘s work. He is a senior analyst with Aite Group, where they say he is “…a recognized thought leader for his pioneering research on right-channeling consumer interactions, the impact of customer advocacy on future purchase intention, and developing sense-and-respond marketing capabilities to improve sales and marketing efforts.” I’ll buy that. […]
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Sorry, But You’re No Steve Jobs
Today is Apple’s 36th anniversary. Appropriately, there was an amusing article in the March 30 Wall Street Journal (Bio as Bible: Managers Imitate Steve Jobs) that described managers who take their admiration of the Apple co-founder beyond inspiration to imitation. Mindless repetition of another’s actions in hopes of repeating their success may work for a […]
Stop When You Get to Yes!
That’s classic sales management advice, yet I have seen countless sales professionals ignore it at their peril. The advice applies outside of sales too, and I just witnessed it yesterday in a whole new context on my flight to San Francisco. We are all buckled into our (relatively) comfortable exit row seats and the flight […]
Top Ten Geek Week Sneak Peeks – Part 1
This week I really got the chance to embrace that inner geek that’s just dying to break out of my pinstripe suit. On Tuesday I had the chance to visit the Microsoft Research TechFest 2012, and celebrate twenty years of Microsoft Research (Shout out to my host Juliane Carlson). Then on Wednesday I attended the […]
Why Bankers Need to Think Like Private Fixed Income Investors
Banks are in the business of taking and managing risks. Get that wrong and you go out of business, and there are many recent examples. I have sometimes worked with advisors who view loans as just another product to sell. This type of advisor also tends to view anyone in the credit underwriting and approval […]
Remember When Laptops Revolutionized Financial Services?
Me neither. Today’s coolest tablets won’t either if they don’t enrich the advisor-client relationship. Many firms have pursued technology for its own sake, and some firms still have deeply engaged, profitable clients despite a shocking lack of sophistication. The real magic happens when technology enhances and enables the advisor-client conversation to uncover unmet and unstated needs […]