One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul. — Tahl Raz Board Copy Share Image
Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use. — Tahl Raz Identities Copy Share Image
Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations. — Tahl Raz Customer Copy Share Image
ReadyMade's first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy. — Tahl Raz Even Copy Share Image
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world. — Tahl Raz Management Copy Share Image
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil. — Tahl Raz Climate Copy Share Image
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism. — Tahl Raz Athletic Copy Share Image
The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so… — Tahl Raz Anything Copy Share Image
Since its founding, Brooks Instrument has been producing devices that measure and control the flow rate of fluids used in manufacturing processes.… — Tahl Raz Brooks Copy Share Image
Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners… — Tahl Raz Boxing Copy Share Image
There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over… — Tahl Raz Crisis Copy Share Image
A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively,… — Tahl Raz Business Copy Share Image
Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s… — Tahl Raz 1970s Copy Share Image
Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly… — Tahl Raz Always Copy Share Image
Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches -… — Tahl Raz Marketing Copy Share Image
While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those… — Tahl Raz Ball player Copy Share Image
There is a huge opportunity in the intermarriage trend. These are people who, if you show them how vital the community is… — Tahl Raz Community Copy Share Image
If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a… — Tahl Raz Consumer Copy Share Image
Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget. — Tahl Raz Design Copy Share Image
Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation. — Tahl Raz Innovation Copy Share Image
No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing. — Tahl Raz Boxing Copy Share Image
Spirituality is a growth industry. And nothing illustrates that better than the burgeoning crop of colossal sanctuaries sprouting up in suburbs across… — Tahl Raz Better Copy Share Image
Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money… — Tahl Raz Business Copy Share Image
Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and… — Tahl Raz Business Copy Share Image
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by… — Tahl Raz Business Copy Share Image
Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late… — Tahl Raz Art Copy Share Image
The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and… — Tahl Raz Food Copy Share Image
When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you… — Tahl Raz Current Copy Share Image
Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red… — Tahl Raz Bass Copy Share Image
Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to… — Tahl Raz Be careful Copy Share Image
A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why… — Tahl Raz Business Copy Share Image
Always the notorious red-light district of sports, boxing today is as troubled as it was even in the days when the Mob… — Tahl Raz Absurd Copy Share Image
When the founder of World Energy Solutions Inc. assembled his first board in 2000, it consisted of nine investors and friends. The… — Tahl Raz Action Copy Share Image
Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that… — Tahl Raz Customer relationship Copy Share Image
Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the… — Tahl Raz Big Copy Share Image
