Love him or hate him, marketers can learn a thing or two from Trump

chicagobusiness.com ^ | Lindsay Stein

[poconopundit]

Great you took the time to check on the number of subsidiaries. It's quite amazing -- unbelievable success rate.

Compare that to the venture capital model (Romney) and they say the success rate is 1 in 10.

I liked your analysis of leadership and great to hear the lessons you learned climbing the ladder.

I was in the Navy for 9 years-- made it as far as Lieutenant.  It greatly broadened my mind living in San Diego and Japan, but I learned pretty early on that I wasn't cut out for that kind of organization.

So for the last 22 years I've been self-employed as an industry analyst in telecom/IT. So I'm really an individual contributor, not a manager.  Even still, you learn all sorts of lessons -- and that helps me advise small and medium sized software firms on market dynamics and where to go next.

If you haven't seen my FR analysis of Trump's book: Art of the Deal, check out my column on that -- I think you'll enjoy it.

I've also got another column coming up comparing Trump to three nautical captains -- ship, ketch, yacht -- all named Intrepid.  So this is an amusing little hobby of mine.