April 2010 - Leadership Blog

  • Innovation Doesn’t Belong To the Developed World Anymore

    During my flight back home to New Jersey from a successful Regional Spotlight in Buenos Aires, the movies offered on the plane were not that interesting, so instead I began to think about examples of successful global brands coming from emerging markets: Chile’s Concha y Toro (one of the world’s most important brands wine with a presence in over 130 countries), Mexico’s Televisa (multimedia conglomerate, the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and don’t I watch their soap operas...
  • Get Ready to Compete With Anyone from Anywhere for Anything

    I spent a lot of time in airports traveling to TM Forum’s Regional Spotlight in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week. I was determined to spend my time as far away as I could from any high-calorie, high-fat foods, so to “kill time” I started to look for any news on emerging markets I could find on magazine racks. I couldn’t stay away from the chocolate and lattes, but I did stick to my “emerging markets” plan. I still had the article on the richest people in the world in my laptop case ( Forbes Magazine...
  • Becoming More Socially Networked in Emerging Markets

    I still remember sitting on my grandfather’s lap when I was a little girl, carefully listening to his fascinating stories from his childhood back in Poland. “You know, we didn’t have TV sets, CDs or even radios at home growing up. We would go to the house of the richest man in town, and he would put his radio outside the balcony, so we could listen…” Amazing, I thought, there’s life without Mickey Mouse on TV! He added: “I had the fortune to have witnessed many of the most incredible developments...

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