Julie Banks packed up the doughnut maker and coffee machine and closed her Donut King store. Image: Tash Sorensen By Jon Michail In the wake of recent media reports and a spate of store closures, franchisees are leaving the Retail Food Group network in droves, and RFG...
By Jon Michail Here at Image Group International, we don’t particularly like to rely on personality tests, but we do believe in core values and Taylor Protocols’ Core Values Index TM (CVI TM) as an evidence-based assessment of unchanging values. I find this an...
Oprah has an instantly recognisable personal brand. Image: OWN By Jon Michail I wrote recently about the importance of creating a good-looking business brand. Crafting an aesthetically pleasing brand where the outer image reflects the inner image. However, in...
Apple's London store. Image: CNET By Jon Michail Good design is really all about good communication. It is about different elements working in harmony to tell a story. This is as true in business as it is in life. Humans are visual beings, and we are drawn to things...
How to Overcome Beauty Prejudice By Jon Michail She looks as though she has everything. That long, curly hair without a whisper of frizz. The cheekbones that could cut glass. The rosebud lips that never need Chapstick, the slim gangly limbs of a greyhound matched...
We all know that presenting well for a job interview is important, but I worry that some people looking for work underestimate just how important it is to look ready to walk right into that dream job. Take the image above - staged of course, but it got me...
Have you ever noticed that sometimes the things that hold us back are the most insignificant? Often it’s our mentality or fear of something that is obstructing us from achieving our goals and not the obstruction itself? I’m reminded of the case of circus elephants,...
By Jon Michail Office politics is a game we’re all playing, whether we like it or not. It can be seen as a negative – by exploiting opportunities or a situation to advance one’s own career. But of course, there is the plus side of office politics, by skillfully and...
By Jon Michail Recently I have found myself becoming acquainted with the notion that storytelling is an important tool to be used in the field of interest that is selling – being a surprisingly coalesced action to the art of persuasion. Many conventional sales experts...