February 10, 2011 · 12:23 pm
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As I was exercising this morning I put on “The Promise”, Bruce Springsteen‘s resurrection of a lot of material recorded 30 years ago during the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” sessions. Many of the songs haven’t been heard before. Some were hits for others (“Talk To Me”, “Because The Night”), and others were concert faves (“Rendezvous”) even though they hadn’t been formally relased. You could also hear how some of these songs became others – the most obvious is “Racing In The Street” but besides a lyric change a few of these songs did make it in a different form on to “Darkness.”
The quality of this material raises the obvious question: why has it taken 30 years and why didn’t it go on the original record 30 years ago? And that’s the business lesson from Burce today. Continue reading →
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February 9, 2011 · 1:12 pm
I’m writing this post from my back-up computer. Actually, it’s the back-up to my back-up and I’ve fired it up because I’m using my real back-up to do my work since my main desktop died. Turns out there are really excellent reasons to turn your computer off at night besides the environmental concerns and those reasons involve fried capacitors (mmm…fried!). But that’s not our subject this morning nor is a rant about the evil machines that run our lives. Continue reading →
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February 8, 2011 · 1:26 pm
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One of the annual fire drills in many businesses is the creation of THE FIVE YEAR PLAN. For my money, it’s one of the biggest wastes of executives’ time out there and since, as we all know, stuff rolls downhill, that loss of productivity extends to their staffs.
There was a release this morning from comScore which made me think of this. It’s their annual U.S. Digital Year in Review report and let me tell you why the rant about five year plans came to mind. Continue reading →
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