Insights & Strategy
What makes a good marketing manager?
Being a marketing manager is a challenging role with a lot of responsibility.
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business
Corporate Communications
Four Tips on Transforming Employees Into Leaders
Transforming employees into leaders is one of the highest-leverage disciplines available to modern organizations. The companies that build sustained leadership development capability produce stronger succession benches and substantially better long-term performance. Four operating practices that distinguish the leaders.
Insights & Strategy
3 Things CEOs Should Be Promoting in 2026 — and Who Does It Best
Andy Jassy at Amazon, Sundar Pichai at Google, Satya Nadella at Microsoft, Jensen Huang at Nvidia, Jamie Dimon at JPMorgan. The three signals every modern CEO needs to externalize — operating discipline, AI strategy, public posture — and the canonical examples of each.
Crisis Communications
Facebook PR Hire Has a Tough Challenge Ahead
Facebook has hired former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications. The Clegg appointment lands inside substantial Facebook crisis communications challenges including Cambridge Analytica, Definers Public Affairs, and the "Delay, Deny, Deflect" investigation. The challenges in front of the new role.
Insights & Strategy
Want to Be a Better Business Leader? Do These 5 Things
Being a great leader is harder than it seems.
PR, AI & Communications News
Dunkin's Rebrand at Eight Years: From Donuts Dropped to Beverages First
September 25, 2018: Dunkin' Donuts dropped "Donuts" from the name. December 2020: Inspire Brands acquired the company for $11.3B. Eight years later, the rebrand is the canonical brand-architecture compression case — and the canonical TikTok-era QSR case via the Charli D'Amelio partnership. The 2026 state of Dunkin'.
Editorial
Founder-Operator Productivity in 2026: How Olipop, Graza, and Vuori Sustain Compounding Work
Founder-operator productivity in 2026 — AI tool integration, calendar architecture, aggressive delegation, asynchronous-first communication, single-priority focus, strategic withdrawal rhythm, health infrastructure. The founders running compounding companies at Lenny's Newsletter, Gumroad, Olipop, Liquid Death, Vuori, Bombas, Graza, Brightland, Soft Services, Fly By Jing, Bobbie. The tools and systems worth studying.
Insights & Strategy
Handling Conflict: The Challenge of Modern Managers
Conflict is an inevitable part of any workforce.
PR, AI & Communications News
BBC Settles with “Underpaid” Editor
CNN is reporting that the BBC is apologizing for "underpaying" a senior editor who happened to be a woman.
Insights & Strategy
Don’t let correlation cause a bad connection
You've heard it before: "Correlation does NOT equal causation." Just because it follows, doesn't mean it connects.