GUEST SPEAKER: JOHN LEVY
There are two main highlights that stood out for me about John Levy. First, to get to where he is at now took a long time and a lot of work in the “trenches.” His family owned a broadcasting business in the Hamilton area, but that did give him a free ride. I admired the fact that during summers he would work with the crew and although he screwed up many times, it provided him with technical knowledge of how things work. This “bottom-up approach” has served him well ever since the family’s business was sold to Rogers Communications.
Second, he seems to be one-step ahead in the business curve. I was impressed that the family broadcasting business was one of the first to install cable in Hamilton (and the GTA). In a private …show more content…
The future of broadcasting did not lay in the old business model. The Internet changed everything. By moving from antenna to cable and now from cable to the digital world, John’s soothsayer abilities are impressive. This staying ahead of the curve is reinforced in an HBR article by Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Matthew Verlinden titled “Skate to Where the Money Will Be,” the authors point out that if you want to stay in business, you better anticipate where the changes are going to come from. It is quite impressive to take everything you have done in the past and apply it in a new operating environment without worrying about legacy costs or as I would call it “past …show more content…
Currently, about 20% of theScore’s management team are women. Unlike his counterpart, John Albright, Mr. Levy considers impact investing (and CSR in general) to be important because it reflects on the people working for you. It was interesting that using business intelligence or data analytics can help you convince others that impact investing / CSR is important. On many occasions in business you need something to break inertia and having the data drive your business is one way to do it. It removes emotion, past prejudices, and habit from the decision-making process. In the fast-digital world, we all live in, this is extremely
There are two main highlights that stood out for me about John Levy. First, to get to where he is at now took a long time and a lot of work in the “trenches.” His family owned a broadcasting business in the Hamilton area, but that did give him a free ride. I admired the fact that during summers he would work with the crew and although he screwed up many times, it provided him with technical knowledge of how things work. This “bottom-up approach” has served him well ever since the family’s business was sold to Rogers Communications.
Second, he seems to be one-step ahead in the business curve. I was impressed that the family broadcasting business was one of the first to install cable in Hamilton (and the GTA). In a private …show more content…
The future of broadcasting did not lay in the old business model. The Internet changed everything. By moving from antenna to cable and now from cable to the digital world, John’s soothsayer abilities are impressive. This staying ahead of the curve is reinforced in an HBR article by Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Matthew Verlinden titled “Skate to Where the Money Will Be,” the authors point out that if you want to stay in business, you better anticipate where the changes are going to come from. It is quite impressive to take everything you have done in the past and apply it in a new operating environment without worrying about legacy costs or as I would call it “past …show more content…
Currently, about 20% of theScore’s management team are women. Unlike his counterpart, John Albright, Mr. Levy considers impact investing (and CSR in general) to be important because it reflects on the people working for you. It was interesting that using business intelligence or data analytics can help you convince others that impact investing / CSR is important. On many occasions in business you need something to break inertia and having the data drive your business is one way to do it. It removes emotion, past prejudices, and habit from the decision-making process. In the fast-digital world, we all live in, this is extremely