Monthly Archives: September 2011

September 16, 2011 · 3:45 pm

Reaping What We Sow

Finally Friday, and that means something food-related.  This week, you might have passed over the article on NYC’s Monkey Bar in the NY Times.  You can read it if you click through here.  In any event, it provided a pretty good business lesson for today’s screed.

This joint has been around for 75 years.  Luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Helen Hayes and others helped to build its reputation.  It was taken over in 2009 by an ownership group that was focused on glitz and exclusivity and were quite successful taking that route.  For a time.  Now, not so much. Continue reading →

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September 15, 2011 · 4:11 pm

A Random TV Thought

This tidbit crossed the wires here at the world headquarters yesterday and I want to bring it to your attention:

A new study from Altman Vilandrie says just 1/3 of 18-34 viewers in the U.S. now watch TV during normal broadcast slots, preferring instead on-demand programming via Netflix and Hulu. The study also makes a connection between increased control over when video is watched to how it is watched with nearly 1/2 of respondents saying they prefer smartphones to TVs.

“Oh sure – another TV death story,” you think.  Probably not – a lot of the content on Nextflix and Hulu comes from the TV nets who are actually more than just distributors these days.  But it brought to mind Internet Explorer, the web browser with a 90+% market share at one point which is now down substantially thanks to the growth of Firefox and Chrome. Continue reading →

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September 14, 2011 · 11:10 am

The Toughest Management Lesson

Suppose you’re a young person who has just been promoted into their first management job. You’re supervising a bunch of folks, some of whom may have been peers. You know that there’s an awful lot to learn. Where to begin?
I’ve trained a lot of those kinds of folks over the last 30 years. I may have even been one myself at some point. So today’s post is about the thing that trips up a lot of managers, even those with a number of years of experience under their belts. Continue reading →

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