In last month’s post, we got into a meditation on business turnaround principles, as demonstrated by the philosopher Robert Irvine (the host of Restaurant: Impossible). Restaurant: Impossible is my guilty pleasure, my Keeping Up With The Kardashians. And I thought it might be beneficial to try and divine real-world business lessons from a staged, pseudo-realistic […]
SMB, Impossible: Transferable Principles of Successful Small Business
One of my guilty pleasures is the show Restaurant: Impossible with Robert Irvine. Whenever I take a trip out to my parents’ place in Woodstock, they always have a backlog of the show on their DVR. I’ve always loved stories about fixers, from Winston Wolf to Michael Clayton to Ray Donovan, to real life practitioners […]
The Psychology of Social Media In a Crisis
One of the large parts of professional Social Media management is the role of a crisis. When something urgent and negative happens, people feel emotionally compelled to share information without necessarily evaluating the truth of that information. This is particularly so when someone is 1) physically or effectively close to the disaster, 2) tending to […]