I read 2 articles yesterday about the upcoming Olympics and they confused me. Actually, “confuse” might be the wrong word but I’ll save that for a minute. I should say upfront that I think the Olympics are a wonderful event – I’ve been to several and loved them and watch them on TV as well. But the issue raised indirectly by these two articles may be, in my opinion, the downfall of them. I’ll let you guys decide. Continue reading
Category Archives: Reality checks
Don’t Believe The Hype
It’s nice that a lot of people watched the Super Bowl on Sunday. In fact, there are a ton of reports out about how it was “the most watched event in TV history.” I’m sure that’s true, or as true anything that comes out of the very imperfect system of TV ratings can be. This piece from Media Post is typical of the reporting that’s out there. Most of them would lead the typical reader to believe that this game set all kinds of viewing records. Well, in terms of raw numbers of people viewing, it did. But how about a little perspective as a good lesson in how you need to read carefully. Continue reading
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Undercover Boss
Like many of you (well, 38 million of you anyway), I watched the debut of Undercover Boss following the Super Bowl broadcast. Interesting premise – a CEO goes undercover at his own company to see how the “stuff” rolls downhill until it lands amidst the workers we see on the show.
On the show the CEO of Waste Management, a seemingly nice enough guy, got a taste of how the policies he sets forth get implemented. It’s like a big corporate game of telephone and he was looking to understand what came out the other end. What he found out was that even with the best of intentions (and we can debate for hours what came out in the editing room), policies often get screwed up on the way to reality. And that’s what hit me throughout: Continue reading
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Consult Keith 