I’m sure you pay attention to one sort of social stream or another. Maybe it’s a Facebook news feed; maybe a list of friends or business contacts on Twitter. I do, and what’s interesting to me is that often the age differences between some of the folks I follow come to the fore in a not very subtile way. This happened the other day when the internet service went out in someone’s building and they wailed about not being able to get anything done. I’m paraphrasing here but there was a shout out to us oldsters asking “how the hell did you get anything done without technology.” Damn good question – thanks for asking. Continue reading
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Heavy Research
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I tried to catch up on a backlog of reading over the weekend since I was in no shape to do much of anything else. One of the piles contained this month’s Wired Magazine and I had to good sense in the midst of my delirium to tear out an item that caught my eye. For those of you playing along with our home game, it’s on page 18 of the April 2011 issue and is called “Heavy Research.” Besides reminding us of a fundamental part of real journalism it also makes an excellent business point as well. Continue reading
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Won’t Get Fooled Again?
There are so many things about which to write this morning and yet I find myself reverting to a few common themes expressed in this space over the last few years. It just amazes me that Santayana‘s maxim about the past is given so much lip service and yet ignored in practice.
I’ll apologize upfront if I sound kind of angry but I kind of am. You see, things such as earthquakes, which we can’t control, are very different from things such as knee-jerk reactions to malicious underhandedness, which we can. In this and other cases it costs people their jobs and embarrasses their organizations for absolutely no reason. I’ll also tell you upfront that this is NOT a political rant because in this case although the incident was politically motivated the business implications could not be more clear. Continue reading
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