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Jamie

As usual, we have a food theme here on a Friday. Specifically, it’s about something that I hope catches on here as it did in England, and that’s Jamie Oliver’s campaign to get us all eating better. As he says on his website:

Jamie’s challenge was to see if he can get a whole community cooking again. He worked with the school lunch ladies and local families to get everyone back in the kitchen and making tasty meals with fresh ingredients – no packets, no cheating. He’s started a Food Revolution: to get people all over America to reconnect with their food and change the way they eat.

Here’s the problem with that, and it’s a good lesson for business as well. Continue reading

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Second Guessing

German: as in English a Puck, Russian: schajba...

I hope you watched the USA/Canada hockey game last night. If you love the intensity of international sport played at the highest levels, it was the proverbial “must-see TV.” In my mind the only way the game could have been elevated to another level would have been had it been the medal round. But the preliminary round is where statements are made.

As someone who has watched a lot of hockey I can tell you that this was Stanley Cup playoff intensity and skill and it only is going to get better. Which is why I can’t understand why there is so much second guessing going on this morning and that provides some thoughts that are about both sport and business. Continue reading

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Tic Tac Toe

A strange but valid position in a Tic-Tac-Toe ...

The media business is, in part, founded on the medium’s ability to deliver eyeballs to advertisers. Obviously the ability of any one medium (and I mean, for example, a TV channel, not all of TV) to do that on a large-scale has been diminished over the years. However, there is an expectation, in my opinion, on the part of advertisers that somewhere at the end of the media equation is a sale.

Part of what we used to sell in TV was the fact that there is only one ad on the screen at a time and your product is front and center. And while that’s still true, a few other things have changed which show how dumb we TV folks have become in many ways. Continue reading

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