Lux and Friends

The topic of today’s podcast is HOW TO SELL A BUSINESS, AND GET THE MOST OUT OF IT so, if you’re a business owner, an entrepreneur, or if you’re planning to start a business sooner than later, you don’t want to miss the precious advise my guest John Warrillow, the author of the newly released book which we will discuss today, titled The Art of Selling Your Business will share in this comprehensive...

The topic of today’s podcast is Virtual Sales Meetings, as if our lives were not filled enough with virtual events…..and yet there is much to gain from leveraging the opportunity to meet new and old customers online that I wanted to know more about it, and share with you, my dearest listeners, the world’s best practices. Let’s start from saying that, if you and your business are not equipped yet t...

The topic of today’s podcast is VISION, which is that unique, special, rare, aspirational and yet tangible ingredient of leadership only the most impactful leaders display, to the point we may conclude VISION is what makes their leadership so strong and impactful. When we take a close look at the way people like  Apple’s Steve Jobs, of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew, and the many corporate and community...

The topic of today’s podcast is personal finance, and also financial education and also financial freedom. Yes, I am talking about freedom because there are two ways to go about money, we can either work for it for the rest of our lives, or make it work for us as early as possible and live a life in which money is no longer something to worry about. Wouldn’t this be just great? And what if I tell...

The topic of today’s podcast is Virtual Events. Yes, the kind of events many people wouldn’t even consider events before COVID came and changed our physical world. And so, all of a sudden, we found ourselves having to replace the shows, the conferences, the trade events in which we would share our space with thousands of people, with the four walls of our house and a pc screen or at best, a large...

The focus of today’s podcast is Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically the transformation AI will cause to a variety of industries. I am extremely happy to discuss such a deep topic with Sudi Sinha, the co-author of the book Reimagining businesses with AI .  Sudhi is a business and technology leader with over 20 years of experience. He has served as VP and GM of Digital Solutions for Johns...

The topic of this podcast is INNOVATION, the type of innovation that makes a company strive questioning first and foremost the way it does business; its business model.  My guest today is an innovation rockstar, the co-author of the newly released book  Business Model Shifts , 6 new ways to create value for customers, and with him I will try to understand which systematics steps can a business tak...

The topic of today’s podcast is HOW TO SELL EXPERT SERVICES, and more specifically how recurring revenue is driven at expert firms like BCG, KPMG, EY and more. If you are a consultant, of if your job requires you to build strong relationships with high-profile corporate clients, relationships based on trust and expert advice, this episode of the podcast with provide you with ideas, case histories,...

The topic of today’s podcast is  A MARKETING REVOLUTION, A CONTEXT MARKETING REVOLUTION, that is. Anyone thinking the rules of marketing haven’t changed, because consumer behavior hasn't changed and the media still got all the power may be setting themselves up for a bad surprise. With my distinguished guest of today, Mathew Sweezey, author of the bestseller “The Context Marketing Revolution”...

The topic of today’s podcast is China, one of the largest markets in the world, formerly the largest factory of the world; the Country making the headlines every year for its GDP growth, the next world’s superpower, at least according to many analysts, and certainly the place where many companies, in particular in the luxury industry, develop most of their turnover. But China is also a place where...

Welcome to a new episode of Lux & Tech The topic of today’s podcast is WORKING FROM HOME. To dig into this extremely relevant topic, I am delighted to interview Karen Mangia, an internationally-recognized thought leader whose TEDx appearance, keynotes, blogs and books reach hundreds of thousands of business leaders each year.  She is the author of the books Working from Home: Making the New No...

NEGOTIATION, the topic of today’s podcast, is the ultimate business skill, regardless of what industry you are in, regardless of your role, and even the level you play at. Negotiating well, means not only getting as much value as you possibly can from anything you do, but as master negotiators know, it also means creating more value than you thought possible at the beginning of a negotiation. List...

Welcome to the age of transparency sounds like the title of a scifi movie, doesn’t it? But if you think about it, the internet, and its mainstream, mobile, use has created an unprecedented opportunity for people to source information, and to a certain degree of accuracy, to fact check. And so, trying to hide something, or avoiding uncomfortable questions may be just the wrong thing to do for a bus...

What is luxury? What makes it so desirable? Can anyone create it? Should anyone have access to it? Would anyone understand it or just the few?  These and many more questions come to mind when discussing a topic that is at the same time fascinating and difficult to enclose in a single definition. Luxury is certainly about perception, but can you dare say a luxury product or a luxury service is not...

ARE YOU A THINKER OR A FEELER? I mean, do you draw your conclusions about the world, its future, and the future of humanity based on what you see around you and feel about it, or on larger data? For example, did you know that the world today is greener than it’s ever been? That it's also more peaceful than it’s ever been before and that the number of children starving to death - still too hig...

The time to sell for the sake of selling, for the sake of making money, for the sake of scaling and gaining more power are over. No, I am not saying that these are not legit reasons why organizations should exist and people should work, but I am here to tell you that another way of doing business exists, and is gaining traction, has already got momentum. Purpose is the name of the game; is the one...

Today we’re talking about money, banks, finance, technology and before you skip this episode thinking "oh this is Fintech, it’s not my business" I tell you stop! Don’t go anywhere because a revolution has started, an irreversible process of transformation of the way we earn, save, borrow, lend, invest money and that involves everyone, including yourself. My guest of today is an expert, t...

Why do you do what you do? Have you ever asked yourself this very question? Have you ever investigated the neural and psychological mechanisms that govern your brain, and as a consequence your mind and which determine every decision you make? If you haven’t, this episode of the podcast will provide you with newly found scientific evidence that the brain is first and foremost an organ and that by u...

Getting to know, and understand the industries of the future is not only a moral imperative for anyone willing to gain or keep their relevance in an ever changing world, but also the smartest thing to do to try and catch the opportunities the not so silent technical revolution we are experiencing has has to offer, and minimize the risk of being, personally and professionally, left out. If you don’...

The topic of today’s podcast is China and it’s quite an ambitious one you may think, for China is more than just a country or a market, but rather one of the most complex, and fascinating I’d say, players in the geo-political and economical theatres of the world. Listening to this episode of LUX & TECH will give you the opportunity to see China through the lenses, or to be more accurate, the e...

If you are like me, and probably many other people around you, you may get discouraged everytime you hear the word problem, or when you find yourself in a tricky situation that requires a certain level of structured thinking. From today onwards, this will change. By listening to this episode of the podcast, you will learn that not only complex problem solving is the skill that will support you thr...

The topic of today’s podcast is….your brain. Yes, that part of your body that consumes 20% your energy, although it accounts for only 2% of its weight. Your brain, that little engine inside your head that controls your life because as neuroscientist Antonio Damasio said “We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think”. And so, while marketers all over the world keep try...

Creativity and innovation are two of the most spoken, dare I say, abused words in the corporate world today. Leaders of all industries reckon that the speed of change we are experiencing , challenges pretty much everything a business is and everything a business does. From its products to its culture, from its processes to its business model. There is nothing, nothing, nothing we can be sure won’t...

Should they choose the latter, they must know CSR, corporate social responsibility, is not the answer. The guest of today’s show, Gib Bulloch, the author of the book The Intrapreneur, Confessions of a corporate insurgent, has spent most of his professional life merging business with aid and development, leading ADP the non-profit arm of the consulting giant Accenture. He did it for over a decade u...

The topic of today’s episode of the podcast is charisma and I cannot stress enough the importance of this subject. Charisma, contrary to popular belief, is a skill and a skill that can help you in so many ways in life, from gaining respect and admiration, to succeeding professionally, from attracting the partner of your dreams, to having your kids hear and listen to you every time, from gaining po...