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Jo Owen practises what he preaches as a leader. He has worked with over 100 of the best, and a couple of the worst, organisations in the world, has built a business in Japan; started a bank now HBOS business banking; was a partner at Accenture and brand manager at...- more about Jo Owen »
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- Which Do Customers Really Prefer: Cut Prices or More Brands?
- Price cuts are a good way to build sales and destroy the business. London's Evening Standard newspaper has been giving a masterclass in this suicidal art form. Over the last two years it has responded to the free sheets by halving its...
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Demoralised CEOs Need Stiff Upper Lip
- Apparently the CEOs of S&P 500 companies are demoralised because they have lost half, or $53 billion, of their personal wealth. Eventually, I managed to wipe the tears from my eyes after laughing so much. The poor dears. Perhaps we should organise a charity drive for them:...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- The Obama Trap
- Any aspiring leader should study Obama carefully, and make sure they do not fall into the hole he has been digging for himself. Obama clearly likes to be liked. Like all politicians, he needs popularity. No popularity means no votes, means no power. But Obama took it to the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- A Formula for Avoiding Resistance to Change
- Change is something we all pay lip service to. Like flossing our teeth and jogging, we know we ought to do it, but prefer not to. For most people change means hard work, risk and the need to learn new ways for unproven benefits. But staff know...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Poor Generation Y Me
- Throughout history, there has been a pretty simple contract between the generations. Parents invest in their children, and they keep working until they die. The Baby Boomers have changed all that. The Boomers now expect their children to look after them while they enjoy thirty years of knitting or playing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- How to Become an Ad Expert in 10 Steps
- In my early career I was responsible for Daz. I put the blue speckle in Daz, and my career has been downhill ever since. From this flimsy start, I am often able to fool people into thinking that I know something about advertising. So here is how...
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Five Rewards For the Post-Pay-Rise-Culture
- "Congratulations: this year your pay rise is zero per cent. And your bonus is that you still have a job. Given you now have fewer co-workers, you can expect to work even harder this year." This is the sort of motivational message which is becoming increasingly common...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Four Tips on Dealing With Big Shots
- Big shots like to look and sound important. They can look and feel very intimidating. I have discovered, through painful experience, four rules to remember about dealing with les grandes fromages: Most of them belong to the human race. Find out what interests...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Knowing When to Move On
- When headhunters call, they always claim that the grass is greener on the other side of the hill, and so you should move. Gently remind them that it is greenest where it rains most. The reality of moving often does not live up to the hype which is so easily...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Six Short-Cuts to Innovation
- A good idea beats the dull weight of money every time. The greatest start-ups are traditionally born in a garage: Microsoft, Google, Skype and most Silicon Valley innovation worked with the reality that every entrepreneur quickly discovers: their ambition was exceeded only by their poverty. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Welcome to the Shareholder Revolution
- Karl Marx would be spinning in his grave. The media are reporting excitedly about shareholder revolts against the executives. That means capitalists are revolting against the workers. That is the world turned upside down. Marx's idea was that the workers would revolt against exploitation by the evil...
- Blog posts 2009-05-28
- Is Workplace Stress Always Bad?
- We have the stress test for US banks. Now we need a stress test for managers. The Samaritans reckon that workplace stress costs British industry £3.8bn. In the US, it's closer to $300bn, proving that Americans do everything on a grander scale than...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- The Knowledge Revolution Means Your Boss Knows Almost Nothing
- The knowledge economy has made us all more ignorant and changed the role of management. Assume that over the last 500 years, the sum of human knowledge has been doubling every generation: that means there is over a million times more knowledge available to us. Good news, except of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- The Test of a Good Meeting
- What is the point of a business meeting? For Pierre-Francois, chef du cabinet of a leading French government ministry, they are "a great opportunity to sabotage other ministers' plans." But purpose of meetings is unclear to many managers. Some meetings are held because...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Four Rules of 'Tough Love' Leadership
- In recessions, executives must achieve two outcomes that often conflict: to be tough enough to deliver the results, and be tender enough to maintain morale and to keep key staff. Leaders have to play good cop and bad cop at the same time. Recessions are when managers...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- 10 Tips to Make Your PowerPoint Presentation More Bearable
- It is 25 years ago since PowerPoint first inflicted itself on the world. Whether the world is a better place as a result is open to debate. In the last 25 years we have discovered plenty of ways to use PowerPoint badly. Here are ten tips for making the most...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Should Leaders Admit to Mistakes?
- Should leaders be like the Pope and admit to fallibility, or like politicians and deny mistakes? At the heart of the problem is trust. We want leaders we trust. If they are always messing up, we will not trust them much....
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Learning from Millwall FC
- A combination of loyalty to a cause and opposition can turn a reasonable group into a stubborn herd. by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- 24/7: Myth or Reality?
- Everyone I know claims to work 100-hour weeks. So why do I only hear from them from 9-5? by Jo Owen
- Blog posts 2009-10-30
- Are You Hiring Skills, Values or Bank Robbers
- I hire most people for their technical skills. Over the years, I have come to realise that this is a big mistake. It was our book keeper who alerted me to the limitations of technical skills. She was good technically, but we should have read the warning...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
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