it's in technology or in sales and you have to or I'm suggesting you really see it as an assumpt failure and begin to gamble is going to throw $100,000 into a big advertising Camp he said no no you don't understand we have the advertising
I left there and I went to work for a sales training company, and it was this little speck of a sales training company, it was a six million dollar company compared to Proctor & Gamble , so obviously very small. But I went to go work there because I really believed in what they were doing.
graduated from the University of Cincinnati I had a full-time job as an assistant brand manager at Proctor and Gamble uh on the uh Mr Clean brand uh which was very ironic because I had just shaved my head at the time and peoplethought people thought I was really really into my job it was great uh so what I found
connections. One of my favorite stories that illustrates the element of the value in a connection culture comes from the Proctor & Gamble company. In the year 2000, P&G was really struggling. In one quarter, they lost $300 million dollars. They -- half their brands were losing market share and talented brand managers were walking out the door.
Osthorne, like any school, is not defined by the teachers who teach there, and it's not defined by the administrators who are just trying to fight the rising tide of entropy. Ivy Gamble is really uncertain of herself, and she tries to pretend like she is, right?
In Cairo. In Cairo, the best job for any easy graduate was P&G. That was the number one job, because it was the only multinational-- Procter & Gamble . Procter & Gamble . So I got an offer from Procter & Gamble .
So they tell me. They gamble on the number one song like they do on the Kentucky Derby.
And so what happens is then they yell at me, we are putting out shoes on! We gamble too much.
The other side would be happy that it was failing. Procter & Gamble was able to repurpose that technology into their diaper manufacturing operation, improving their cash flow about a billion dollars
try to make it better. Simple language and simple action, at the same time we got all the crazy mortgage stuff going on with the banks. You have A. G. Lafley running Proctor and Gamble and his motto was, "Keep it Sesame Street simple." And if anybody has ever met A.G. Lafley, he talks to you like you're a seven year old. It's like Mr. Rogers. Remember those who were kids during Sesame Street? And, and that sort of, and, and it sort of,
Even more notorious than that was, of course, the gambling ships. There were gambling ships out at the Bay that water taxis would take you from the Pier to the, to these ships to, to gamble and they were just beyond the three mile limit until Earl Warren stepped in, State Attorney Earl Warren stepped in and declared the limit to be three miles beyond an imaginary point between, making it far too out, far too out of the way to, to water taxis to and back in a reasonable amount of time. Lots of really rich stories that, I, I could go
in Iraq 20 3 to 2005 today he's going to be talking about his new work which is the gamble General David Petraeus in the American Military Adventure in Iraq 2006 to 2008 so Thomas has been part of two pit surprise winning teams and he is
farming society President Jefferson had envisioned in their grandfather's time. And men who cared for neither politics nor books gather at the tavern that sat between the stores to imbibe and gamble until their wives prevailed upon them to return home for supper. Abba was at least lucky on one account. And Abba is Louisa's mother, Abigail. Bronson was a temperate man and never once set foot in that place of temptation. Louisa fought back the whelling irritation that made her jaw feel tight. Walpole seemed to her wholly unremarkable. Over the last
Can you imagine what the world would be-- what Silicon Valley, and the US, and the world, at large, would be-- if 10% of that $180 billion per year would get invested-- or gambled , informally-- into new innovations that has that opportunity to change our world? So basically, you're saying the micro-investment is worth the risk.
And it always amazed me, because we never saw the money. He gambled it away or spent it. And he often had investors trying to put him in jail.
Compulsive gamblers are experts in self-deception.
It was a complete gamble but the four big US tire companies were able to improve and manufacture a synthetic rubber called styrene-butadiene
He was using a gamble kind of as a prototype, abstract prototype, for the risks of life that involve chances of gain and loss.
taking a gamble . But again, it goes back to the name, I think.
It was a big gamble .
Integrity is a gamble .
It's a gamble to bet on your CEO having integrity.
At Procter and Gamble , there is a program called the Mastery Program.
it's in technology or in sales and you have to or I'm suggesting you really see it as an assumpt failure and begin to partnered with Proctor and Gamble and what they created was the crest spin brush the crest spin brush and they
it's in technology or in sales and you have to or I'm suggesting you really see it as an assumpt failure and begin to said to proor gamble we have our advertising all set they said no wait a minute we're the experts and we're Proctor and Gamble we're the experts we
it's in technology or in sales and you have to or I'm suggesting you really see it as an assumpt failure and begin to months later Proctor and Gamble bought him out for $475
So they made a gamble , in 1977, of selling a computer in a sealed case.
Do you gamble ? And how many casinos are you banned from?
Or the impulse to gamble .
You look at Proctor & Gamble .
If you're Proctor & Gamble , you should be very focused on earnings reports and say, how much did they make last year.
It was a huge gamble .
It was a huge gamble on AT&T's part, because it cost us a lot of money.
It was a big gamble to push all that money out on the table, but it had great potential.
That's Procter & Gamble .
And it was a gamble that payed off.
When Proctor and Gamble went from 26 varieties of Head and Shoulder down to 15, they actually saw a rise in sales of ten percent.
So after college I went to work for Proctor & Gamble , I was a salesperson there, won some sales awards, was the sales manager, and was the sales trainer. But I left Proctor & Gamble , big fancy Proctor & Gamble , multi-national company. I left there and I went to work for a sales training company, and it was this little speck of a sales training company, it was a six million dollar company compared to Proctor
This was a huge gamble on my part because even though it really seemed like he was gonna win it on that day, the way the Chicago election works, we don't know this 'cause we really
A.G. Lafley, he talks to you like you're a seven year old. It's like Mr. Rogers. Remember those who were kids during Sesame Street? And, and that sort of, and, and it sort of, Proctor and Gamble was things like the customer is boss or the customer is king, but then they'd make billion dollar decisions in the basis of a very simple approach. And then to talk about, well now an easier competitor, an interesting thing, example, of keeping it simple is to look at what happened when Jobs took over as then acting CEO of Apple
careful not to gamble , On a guy with a suitcase and a ticket getting out of here in a tired bus station
is a gamble . This is a risk. But, it's an appreciable risk, because the payoff could be this validation of the Tarahumara as the custodians of this lost art.
There is no gamble . You're not putting up money because you think something might happen to you. And they're not taking your money hoping that,
on a on a gamble of people with the history of not paying their bills his story is the story
I'm not a gambler.
And I guess the gambles these days come in different shapes and forms, and in different dangers.
He was a gambler.
And just as a gambler myself, as a semi-professional gambler, in fact, like high stakes gambler in poker,
who's a gambler. And Sky Masterson's dad bankrolls him to be a gambler and gives him this advice very early in his career.
And so there were periods of this time he didn't work at all. He was a gambler and a womanizer. We never knew whether we were going to have that roof over our heads the next day or not.