Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

Cactus began developing special characters, with unique personas. During that time, he developed a famous sign-off phrase. Through the remotes, I learned how to feed lines and develop the talent to speak in sound bites, as I do for business media interviews to this day. I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford.

Pryor 50

Pryor Mentor Learning-by-Doing Audience 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. I'm also an owner. We did that.

Strategy 15

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. For these types of projects, develop them so that the returns don’t pay out only at the end.

Wilde 18

Wilde Armstrong Project Technology 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. Armstrong’s Killer App.

Armstrong 9

Armstrong Wireless Succession Licensing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?

Armstrong 9

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Tim Cook is the stiffest scripted presenter since Neil Armstrong. Alternatively, get inspirational and move people with the difference Apple products make in the lives of the blind, poor children in rural schools, entrepreneurs in the developing world. Make a Self-Deprecating Joke. But most people aren''t bothered by that.

Delegation 10

Delegation Supply Chain Armstrong Products 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

The development of the Nook Color, which took place in Silicon Valley, proved divisive for the company, which is based in New York. And as Lynch tried to wrangle 300 developers and designers, Nook''s sales dropped 26% in a year amid talk that the company should be split up. That means being as quick to market as Chinese companies.

Innovation 9

Innovation Armstrong Globalization Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. The end of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, relaxation of ownership constraints in 1996, and technological developments that reduced the use of radio as a medium for music also helped fuel the popularity of conservative talk radio. The media landscape in the U.S. publicly traded companies.

Media 9

Media Company Politics Armstrong 9