In a 1954 speech to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was quoting Dr J. Roscoe Miller, president of Northwestern University, said: “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important.”
Don Draper, the legendary and fictional ad man from the wildly successful American TV series Mad Men, is famous for his reckless lifestyle as well as his brilliance as a Madison Avenue advertising executive.
Throughout the 7 seasons, Draper was responsible for some of the best quotes of the series. It demonstrated Drapers deep understanding of his craft.
I have listed below my favourite 5 Don Draper quotes from all 7 seasons, I have also spent some time thinking about how these quotes relate to business in the modern context.
Funding a business throughout a period of high growth is often a difficulty that many businesses face. There are many sources of funding that are available to business owners, the most common sources (according to the reserve bank) are:
In many businesses a key economic driver is employee productivity. Obviously if you are able to get the same amount of people to produce more, your business will be more profitable.
You may be asking yourself where you can make extra profit in your business, you may be wondering which clients require most effort to support, and you may even be wondering which staff member is the most productive? Until recently this information was the exclusive domain of large businesses.
Charles “Lucky” Luciano is one of the most famous mobsters in history. He was a childhood criminal from the lower east side of New York and quickly grew in stature to become one of the most influential figures in the history of the Mafia.
A few weeks back I wrote an article – “Out with the old, in with the new” detailing how I viewed the Apple Watch and its prospects for success. Apple released the Watch for demonstration and pre-orders on the 10th of April and thus far, the numbers are staggering!
In 1983 Swiss watchmaker Swatch group released the Swatch, a shortened version of the “Second Watch”. The Swatch was a direct response to the Japanese watch manufacturers Seiko and Casio and how they had decimated the Swiss Watch making industry with quartz based watches. Continue reading…
In one way or another, it’s the dream of every business owner to sell their business. Ok that might not be so true, many business owners also dream of passing their businesses on to children and grandchildren. Continue reading…
Here are three statistics that should scare you.
