Big companies should start hiring failures

by John Ribbler September 23, 2009

The biggest companies can hire almost anyone they desire.   For senior positions, they often employ high-powered executive search firms to find the brightest and most successful executives.   So, you have to ask why leaders of the world’s most important companies are universally out of touch with their employees, customers and the marketplace in general. [...]

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Sales tips from Frank Sinatra and Steve Stills

by John Ribbler September 17, 2009

“If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with,” Steve Stills Decades ago, I knew a lady who told me about a date she had with Frank Sinatra during a period when both of them were single.  The evening, arranged by mutual friends, featured a polite dinner in a crowded [...]

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Paranoia enables CEO to expand during recession and win Ribby Award

by John Ribbler September 14, 2009

Previous Ribby Awards have gone to courageous CEOs who sacrificed their salaries, egos and other trappings to help their employees get through the recession.  This month’s honor goes to Jack Stack, CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing Corporation,(SRC) in Springfield, MO, whose employee-owned company has actually expanded during the economic crisis.  Stack and his team have thrived [...]

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The world’s first and only generic brand

by John Ribbler September 10, 2009

Manufacturers began identifying products by placing a mark on the package in the 19th century when production of household goods moved to factories. Several sources cite soap as among the first goods so named. Appropriately, soap remains among the most broadly and diversely branded products.  Ironically, the notorious entertainment brand it spawned, the soap opera, [...]

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A social media success story about Google’s top-ranked Willie Jackson and me

by John Ribbler September 8, 2009

Scanning blogs, forums, e-newsletters and the like, every day I notice people wondering: “How do you measure the value of social media?” “Can social media generate sales leads?” “Is social media the future of marketing?” Here’s my story. Not long after launching my eponymous Ribblog, I posted a question about Word Press plug-ins on an [...]

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Japan Airlines CEO makes less than pilots, wins Ribby Award

by John Ribbler August 6, 2009

As I continue struggling to find United States CEOs who unselfishly lead their companies, the Ribby Award for August goes to the President and CEO of Japan Airlines (JAL), Haruka Nishimatsu, who earns less than his pilots, rides the bus to work, and eats in the company cafeteria. Last year Mr. Nishimatsu cut his own [...]

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