by John Hill | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
It’s a fine June day in New York City. Bill Ackman peels off his suit jacket in the afternoon sunshine, and hands it to a chauffeur parked outside his office in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. Wearing a crisp white shirt and a “Never Forget 9/11” blue cap, the 60-year-old...
by John Hill | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
On a Monday morning in late March, a member of Nestlé’s marketing team walked into the company’s office in Vevey, Switzerland with unusual and costly news. More than 400,000 KitKat bars, some 12 tons of chocolate, had vanished while being transported from a Nestlé...
by John Hill | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
The U.S. continued to strike Iran over the weekend with President Trump saying the action was “in honor” of three American soldiers who were killed in recent days. As the conflict continues to heat up, oil futures rose higher through the rest of the year, and...
by John Hill | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
A consumer tech VC confessed to me over breakfast that he was injecting himself with an experimental peptide protocol. His grey market tincture could soon be mainstream. Peptides—the tiny protein fragments that users inject to try to speed up recovery, boost energy,...
by John Hill | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
I’ve spent the last 12 years interviewing more than 700 leaders for The Learning Leader Show. I’ve started noticing the same failure pattern across founders, executives, and managers alike: some of them are outsourcing their thinking to AI, and their best people are...
by John Hill | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
When Target named Michael Fiddelke CEO in February 2026, the leadership changes he announced went beyond a standard promotion. Target eliminated its chief commercial officer role and consolidated merchandising authority into a single position, naming Cara Sylvester,...
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