by Experimarketing | Apr 3, 2015 | Leaders, Strategy
The Great Panic of 1907 was a crisis largely overlooked by the history books, yet it was during this time that J. Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan made a courageous deal that saved the American banking system. J.P. Morgan has one important lesson for modern marketers: Work...
by Experimarketing | Mar 30, 2015 | Leaders, Strategy
When most of us envision a writer, we probably think of a New York playwright cooped up in her apartment, dressed in pajamas, papers and books scattered everywhere. Or maybe we envision a nineteenth century novelist holed up in a cabin writing with a quill pen, seated...
by Experimarketing | Mar 19, 2015 | Leaders, Strategy
Harland David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fame, has one vital lesson for modern marketers: Persistence pays. Early life Harland Sanders was born in 1890 on a farm about 3 miles (5 km) east of Henryville, Indiana. He was the...
by Experimarketing | Mar 16, 2015 | Leaders, Strategy
For 15 of the last 20 years, William Henry “Bill” Gates III has topped the Forbes magazine list of the world’s wealthiest people. At the end of 2014, after nearly a decade of philanthropy, the Gates fortune was $81.2 billion, nearly $35 billion...
by Experimarketing | Mar 9, 2015 | Leaders, Strategy
Walter Elias Disney (1901-1965), better known as Walt Disney, created the best-known brand in the United States and later around the world in the first half of the twentieth century. A voice actor, cartoonist, writer, producer, director, industry magnate, and...
by Experimarketing | Mar 5, 2015 | Leaders, Strategy
A brilliant engineer, former Intel president Andy Grove has been dubbed by business historians as “the guy who drove the growth phase” of Silicon Valley. The famously immodest Steve Jobs idolized Grove and called on him for advice when he was starting Apple. Grove...
