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July 23, 2011 By Gina Romero 1 Comment

7 Lessons on Collaboration from Marvel’s Stan Lee

This week is Comic-Con, the annual geek fest in San Diego and a gathering of all things related to the comic book industry. In honour of Stan Lee, the revered Marvel Comics editor writer, this post looks at how his management style revolutionised the creative process at Marvel and how we can use the same method to manage our own teams more efficiently. Stanley Lieber (later known as Stan Lee) joined the Martin Goodman's publishing company as an … [Read More...]

July 11, 2011 By Gina Romero 8 Comments

How Niche is Too Niche?

“Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.” ~Zig Ziglar Niche, niche, niche. If you are a networker you will hear this a lot. And it's great advice. Niching - or catering to a niche market - is simply being very specific about who your target customers are and focusing on providing a product or service which addresses their needs. This definitely applies to networking. Think about it - would you be more … [Read More...]

August 12, 2010 By Gina Romero Leave a Comment

The Success Conundrum

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty. ~ Jean Genet In business misplaced trust comes at a high price and being open and transparent is a vulnerability. On the other hand, how many opportunities have you lost to fear? So do we need harden up & close ourselves off over time, building an inpenetratable forcefield to protect us from potential risks? Must we … [Read More...]

May 2, 2010 By Gina Romero 1 Comment

The Market for Comedy Socks

Whatever path we end up on, we all have expectations to fulfil, a certain image or reputation, to be supplemented by suitably matched exterior packaging. Smart, reliable, trendy, corporate, respectable, successful, sophisticated. Our personal brand evolves, all too often defined by how we would like others to perceive us. I have lived a life of pseudo-uniformed compliance, forever in awe of tattooed mutants, human canvasses of living … [Read More...]

Danger Do Not Hold the Wrong End of a Chainsaw

April 13, 2010 By Gina Romero Leave a Comment

Stupidity Tax

Following on from a previous post '7 Tips for Delivering a Perfect Rant', my all time favourite Absolutely Fabulous epidode is when Eddy goes off-on-one in court and rants about Stupidity Tax. Pretty funny right? In actual fact though, we pay Stupidity Tax every day. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein Here are 10 examples of how we pay for our stupidity: 1 ) … [Read More...]

Someone misplaced his helmet this morning ....

March 10, 2010 By Gina Romero Leave a Comment

The Dark Lords of Perfectionism

Mediocrity. It has spread through industry and society like a plague and it seems that standards are universally low. Hospitals are criticised for hygiene levels that would cause Florence Nightingale to weep, the mantra of manufacturing for the most part appears to be ‘faster, cheaper, more’. I admit to being an over thinker, borderline perfectionist and habitual tweaker. This blog post will probably take me no more that 20 minutes to … [Read More...]

January 4, 2010 By Gina Romero Leave a Comment

7 Tips for Delivering a Perfect Rant

I am a natural born ranter and I come from a long line of ranters (father side). While ranting is a key business and interpersonal skill, it can be a tricky one to master. This blog will hopefully give you a few pointers to get you started: 1) Choosing the right rant topic Decide on a subject that you feel really passionate, angry or crazy about. It doesn’t actually matter if you are right or wrong, just make sure that you feel … [Read More...]