Candy Corn's Leadership Lessons

Oct. 31, 2016 - PRLog -- Holidays are often associated with a particular candy. Christmas has candy canes, Valentine's Day has those little heart candies, Easter has Cadbury Creme Eggs, and Halloween has candy corn. These yellow, orange, and white striped, corn-kernel-shaped treats were popularized in the 1880s. Today, more than 35 million pounds (or 9 billion pieces) of candy corn are produced each year.

There aren't many products with the staying power to get more popular over the course of 140 years. So when we find them, there's surely a leadership lesson to be learned. Here are a few:

The recipe has not changed

Candy corn is basically the same as it was since the turn of the century. With the exception of a few minor ingredients, what we are eating today is the same as the cowboys of the Old West, the soldiers of World War I, and our great, great grandparents.

   In today's business climate, "old" is often considered to be a bad thing. We see this whenever a political candidate peddles change or a new leader joins a company...

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