Driving High Performance Culture with Vern Oakley [podcast]
Neil Ball interviewed Tribe CEO Vern Oakley for The Entrepreneur Way. You can listen to the podcast here. A few choice quotes: “Working hard, trying different things, learni[..]
Breakfast of Champions
A good strategy is nothing without a good culture. Companies that maintain a culture of diminishing people, putting them down, institutionalizing sexism or harassment, or prot[..]
How will you be remembered?
The concept of resume values vs. eulogy values comes from David Brooks’ 2015 book, The Road to Character. If you’re like me, perhaps you contemplate your career in terms o[..]
Leadership in Focus is #17 on Success Magazine’s Best Books of 2017 List
Success Magazine ranked 72 of 2017’s Best Books to Make You Successful with Tribe CEO/Creative Director Vern Oakley’s book Leadership in Focus coming in at #17. It[..]
Wartime CEO vs. Peacetime CEO
What’s the difference between a Wartime CEO and a Peacetime CEO? This is a concept that I learned from Ben Horowitz’s great book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things. It[..]
Bulletproof Entrepreneur on How to Use Video to Grow Your Business
Tribe CEO Vern Oakley was recently featured on the Bulletproof entrepreneur podcast with Chi Odogwu. Transcript follows: If you’re ready to take your destiny into your [..]
Teleprompter 101
The following post was adapted from Vern Oakley’s book Leadership in Focus. Teleprompters are a mixed blessing. Technically, they’re meant to help on-camera performanc[..]
Vern Oakley on Business Insanity Talk Radio
Vern Oakley was recently featured on Barry Moltz’s Business Insanity Talk Radio on WIND AM. The discussion includes: The power of video to impact company culture, the bo[..]
The Creative Constant in Film and Video
Let’s talk about constants. The most famous mathematical constant is the speed of light: the universal speed limit. It may not be rocket science, but the time it takes to so[..]