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Dispute Resolution – How To Avoid It And How To Deal With It

Big Red Car — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:24:22 +0000

I was looking back at some old notes from when I first got into the CEO coaching business a dozen years ago and reflected on the nature of my relationships with CEOs. One of the things that bubbled to the surface is I have been involved in a lot of internal and external dispute resolutions. […]

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Don’t Cry For Me, Elon Musk

Big Red Car — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:48:56 +0000

Elon Musk, whose 2012 employment agreement compensation was the largest in US corporate history, is angry that the Delaware Chancery Court invalidated his 2018 employment agreement (also the largest in US business history). The 2018 agreement is fairly described as being a “performance based, equity compensation plan.” It contained a dozen milestones each of which […]

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The Amazon Prime Nibble

Big Red Car — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:42:32 +0000

Today I received a friendly email from my friends at Amazon Prime — currently $139/year — telling me the ad free nature of Amazon Prime Video was going to change. There will now be “limited” ads on its movie and TV offerings, unless I want to pay — drumroll please — an additional $2.99/month = […]

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The $10MM Gross Revenue Reality Check

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:58:15 +0000

If you are a startup, I hope one day soon you get to $10,000,000 in gross revenue. If you do, I have some thoughts for you. A caveat first — there are a great number of exceptions to what I am going to share with you, so do not fall prey to missing the difference […]

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This Bud Lite’s Not For You, Amigo

Big Red Car — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:56:12 +0000

Case studies are a great way to learn. If you get an MBA, you will study lots of examples of what happened in the real world. They are very instructive. One of the most recent interesting case studies is the Bud Light School of Marketing’s recent program to destroy America’s leading beer brand. The Company […]

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Dupes v Brand Slavery/Loyalty

Big Red Car — Tue, 16 May 2023 12:51:15 +0000

Imagine you are a woman in the market for a new set of leggings/yoga pants. You look at the Lululemon line of products because they are a highly recognizable luxury brand, your butt looks great in them, you can wear them everywhere except church, and decide you are going to buy a pair of Align […]

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Adapt Or Die — New York Times

Big Red Car — Wed, 26 May 2021 18:13:44 +0000

Evolution is a real thing. We are seeing companies evolve due to the realities of the Internet and digital everything. Do you recall just a couple of decades ago when we knew that hard copy, paper newspapers were a “dead man walking?” You just knew all that content was going digital and that a paper […]

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Elegant Simplicity

Big Red Car — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 16:45:58 +0000

Steve Jobs (please note his elegant, simple look above through the years) is alleged to have said: “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” I agree completely with this utterance. I have […]

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The View From Afar — Spain/Germany #6

Big Red Car — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 01:19:01 +0000

You will recall we are canvassing the world to get an idea of how folks think about themselves, their own businesses, their own countries and the United States. Today, we speak to a very special correspondent in Madrid who is the Chairwoman of the Board of a truly global company. She is from Germany, but […]

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The White Underbelly Of Work From Home — WFH

Big Red Car — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:48:15 +0000

As we begin to contemplate a post-Pandemic world the air is awash with musings as to how WFH is going to become the new normal (God, I hate that phrase). There is no doubt that we have all discovered some interesting things about how we can or cannot work from home. Please know that in […]

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