26Aug 2017 by Bob Cargill

10 Boston Restaurants Crushing it on Twitter

Boston, Branding, Business, Marketing, Restaurants, Social Media
It’s one thing to be able to serve great food. It’s quite another to be able to show off those dishes in words and pictures on Twitter so well that your followers like your tweets almost as much as your eats. That’s the irony of marketing a restaurant in this day and age. As if it’s not enough to be considered one of the best places to go for a bite to eat in town. Now they have to have the popularity on social media to prove it. Okay. Maybe that’s a stretch, but the importance of displaying their menus everywhere people are congregating online today cannot be underestimated. More and more potential customers are stalking their every move not just on the grapevine, but on a bevy of newfangled…
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18Aug 2017 by Bob Cargill

The Importance of Trust Among Colleagues

Business
I've read a lot of Patrick Lencioni's books on leadership and business management. They are all ridiculously awesome and incredibly insightful. "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" is one of his best books, if you ask me. One of the dysfunctions he writes about in this book is the absence of trust. Trust is essential to the success of a team. Without trust in the workplace, team members will be more than likely to work ineffectively. Trust needs to be earned, of course, but if the right people are on board, trust is a given. A presence of trust in the workplace (or among any group of people working together towards the same goal) helps ensure that every single individual contributor on the team is performing his or her duties…
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13Aug 2017 by Bob Cargill

The Quality of Empathy in a Leader

Business
Empathy. It's a quality possessed by many great leaders. It's a quality to admire. Those who are empathetic are able to understand others. Apparently Theo Epstein has a great deal of empathy. That's one thing I learned about him in the December 19, 2016 issue of Sports Illustrated. As a general manager, he's already won two World Series with the Boston Red Sox and one with the Chicago Cubs. He's a winner. He's a leader. And he's empathetic.
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