by Joel Cohen | Mar 15, 2024 | Insights
Pothole Behavior: Why Your Business Has Recurring Problems. In running your business, you’ll face challenges that always need to be fixed. To the company’s detriment, side-stepping these issues and hoping for better results becomes normal behavior. I call...
by Joel Cohen | Mar 15, 2024 | Insights
Executive Summary: How to Stand Out in Business: Beyond Being Better Harness the power of uniqueness in business strategy and business planning to forge a sustainable path to success. Here’s how being different, not just better, can redefine your competitive...
by Joel Cohen | Mar 7, 2024 | Insights
When someone says they want to be held accountable, we accept that as the norm for CEOs. But should we? Some CEOs feel more at ease with the pressure of having their feet held to the fire when it comes to accountability. Peeling away the layers, accountability is an...
by Joel Cohen | Aug 7, 2023 | Insights
No, not the the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, but another team that pulls together with one common goal: to win. Currently, over 100 independent ad agency owners are mavericks. Mavericks because they decided to do something different: break from traditional...
by Joel Cohen | Jan 31, 2023 | Insights
Are you thinking about merging? One of the conversations in a recent CEO Stars session among several ad agency owners was joining with other agencies. The motive behind the urge was to grow faster and ‘swallow-up’ an agency that was either financially easy-pickings or...
by Joel Cohen | Nov 14, 2022 | Insights
When people and businesses are open to ‘change out of necessity,’ how will you and your agency change? If you don’t think you have to get re-wired then you’re kidding yourself. You can bury the same-old, same-old. Here are the top three lies...
