He meant to paint. Instead, the Haifa-born founder built a communications career by stripping hard ideas to their essential line - and learned that a well-reasoned no can be more valuable than an easy yes.
From a federal marketing fellowship to the knotty business of getting commercial software into government, Rogers has built a career translating between two worlds that rarely share a dictionary.

She helped scale Microsoft's public-sector business from $100 million to more than $3 billion, then spent her final CMO chapter replacing mass marketing with precision. Her enduring idea is simpler than the software: sales and marketing should share the work, the numbers, and the consequences.

For Joann Fitzgerald, destination marketing is an exercise in attention: find the gap between what travellers recognize and what they have yet to imagine, then give them a reason to cross it.