Renaud

Paul Renaud, father of two sons, was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and speaks 3 languages; French, English and Romanian. Paul is a consummate networker and he is passionate about three things: People, Business and Peak Performance. He has created and managed large teams in Marketing, Sales and Strategy and has led successful investment ventures in Telecommunications and Real estate in addition to connecting investors with successful Online entrepreneurs.

Paul Renaud, Head Coach, Renaud, moderating Focus on Telecom , Nov 3, 2011

Paul Renaud moderating Focus on Telecom , Nov 3, 2011 with Orange, Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent

I read an interesting article where David Pogue who in his State of the art column ( International Herald Tribune, Aug 25,2011) wrote a scathing report on the Blackberry Bold 9900 especially stating that when it came out…Will anybody care?
This guy killed the product and Blackberry. He also reminded us that Nokia once a [...]

Whenever I am asked to speak in public I am very inquisitive with the host organization, drilling them to know more about the audience. Why am I so persistent?
If I don’t know the audience, I cannot customize my message and “I will lose them”.
If you are selling your products/ services (let’s call it “product” moving [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen the world is throwing up. The Vomit brand was created to remind us of climate change. Please look at this video/PDF file as well as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient truth.

Easy steps in developing the right brand and to maintain its effect and appeal on the market: Paul Renaud shares some pretty cool stuff on Branding so please look at this video/PDF file:

Source: Financial times April 14, page 3: “IMF sees steady economic recovery”
As my father used to tell me” I hate to tell you so… but I told you so”.  He would always take great pleasure in reminding me that he was right on some advice he had given me a few months (or years) prior.
Well [...]

It’s an easy one. Want to cut costs? Lay off people or ‘terminate their contract’ (as we say in Romania). Layoffs imply some form of guaranteed salary in North America. Therefore some of Romanian Managers/Owners I know have been terminating contracts. But what do you do when things pick up again?
I read a great article [...]

As a leader you need to look at how you are behaving these days. It’s normal to be concerned with just about everything but you also need to look at what you do on a daily basis to keep you focused.
Difficult times require you to sharpen your own skills. Take classes, read books and network [...]

Step #2 Remember that some business can do well during a recession. What does Cisco, Oracle and Google have in common? They were started in the worse possible economical times. I was inspired when I read an article in Business Week. It talks about how companies have persevered when no one would ever think about [...]