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Turkish Delight – A Confection, Not a Strategy 1 Aug 2013 | 09:44 pm
My wife and I returned to New York in July from a three-week trip to Jordan and Turkey. So much about the trip was memorable: Petra, Istanbul, the boat traffic on the Bosphorus, a sunrise balloon rid...
Beancounters, Not Creatives, Now Run Don Draper’s Ad Business 10 Jun 2013 | 01:25 am
Don Draper must be spinning in his grave, or he would be if he had read Business Insider’s May 13 post by Jim Edwards titled “The 37 Richest People in Advertising, Ranked By Income.” Of the 37 people ...
TV Upfronts: Fingers in the Digital Dyke 21 May 2013 | 09:22 pm
The broadcast and cable TV networks have wrapped up their spring narcissistic extravaganzas that try to seduce TV buyers to invest their ad dollars in programming that will appear next fall. The upfro...
“Stop Koch” – How Dumb Can You Be? 29 Apr 2013 | 08:21 pm
The liberal advocacy organization Free Press is promoting a “Stop the Koch Brothers” campaign that pleads for its members to sign the following online petition: Dear Tribune Company: We need journalis...
Don’t Tred On My Profits, Aereo 18 Apr 2013 | 08:52 pm
Broadcast TV networks and stations are really pissed at everyone’s favorite boss, Barry Diller, and Aereo, the TV-signal-grabbing startup Diller is backing. The TV networks and stations are furious at...
The Ten Most Hated Jobs – Why? 9 Apr 2013 | 09:06 pm
Of the blogs I read regularly, Steve Denning on Forbes.com consistently writes the most thoughtful ones about management. Recently he posted about the ten happiest and the ten most hated jobs in Ameri...
Innovative Move by Marissa Mayer 9 Mar 2013 | 10:24 am
The blogsphere, newspapers, and magazines have been full of opinions about Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision last month to have everyone who telecommutes at Yahoo come into the office. Most of the op...
Stuck In Their Ways 22 Feb 2013 | 09:21 am
In the February 17 issue of the New York Times Magazine Robert Draper wrote an article titled “Can the Republicans Be Saved From Obsolescence?” The graphics are awesome; check them out. Draper reporte...
Google Wins, Legacy Media Loses 12 Feb 2013 | 08:55 pm
For the second year in a row, Google is the best company to work for in America according to the 2013 FORTUNE list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Also, Google “earned higher marks from marke...
Remaining in the Railroad Business 30 Jan 2013 | 06:36 am
In the 1980s and 90s I did a lot of sales consulting for radio and TV stations and cable companies. One service I provided was a Sales Audit. I would ask sales management a long list of questions, int...
