Tag: biography

A little Marissa Mayer for the weekend?

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Some fascinating reading for the weekend from Business Insider, as Nicholas Carlson writes about Marissa Mayer. “The Friday before she came on, the parking lots would be empty till 10 a.m. and would be empty again after 4 p.m. That happened day after day after day for seven months in a row. Marissa comes, the next week, the parking lots are full at 8 a.m. and people are still there at 6:30. “The changes that she brought — making food free, focusing on quality, shutting some things down, being open and honest during the Friday FYI meetings — all brought

Book Idol, Simon Cowell and the Christmas Number One

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Today is “Super Book Day“, and if that sounds like a wizarding marketing wheeze, you’d be right. It’s the first wave of celebrity autobiographies being released to capture the Christmas market. But there’s another market, one by the bookies to get the “Christmas Number One” of the book charts. Given the almost perfect dominance of Simon Cowell and the reality music shows, the Bookies have missed out on a Christmas race for a long time. With the runners now including “celeb” names like Lee Evans, James Corden, and Rob Brydon (“Small Man in a Book!”) they’ve got a nice bit of