Countless books advise how to build your personal brand. Michael Jackson was so unique that he cannot realistically serve as anyone’s role model in that effort. Yet Jackson was unquestionably a brand icon and there are lessons to be learned. Here are the top ten factors that explain his icon status. Start early.... 

Reading all the hand-wringing stories today about General Motors’ bankruptcy, one wonders how such a corporate titan could fall so far, so fast. But what most of these stories don’t mention is that GM would never have become the world’s biggest company were it not saved from the brink of collapse after... 

At the PMI EVM World 2009 conference, Pat Barker of MCR presented an alternative talk when an opening appeared due to a cancellation. First MCR is one of those firms that is a real life “thought leader.” Many what to call themselves “thought leaders.” Very few are. Pat presented a concept that...