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Detroit's Brand Killer 
forbes blogger via Forbes.com: Digital Rules By R on Mon, 24 Nov. 2008
In addition to its other mistakes, Detroit's addiction to fleet sales, particularly of rental cars, was a killer. This strategy helped destroy the brand value of its sedans. Follow my logic:
Detroit was once an innovation hotbed in the world. During the first half of 20th century Detroit mattered to the U.S. and global economies in the way that Silicon Valley matters now. This obviously
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Humiliation as a Management Tactic
Mark Potts via Recovering Journalist on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
These are horrible, scary times in most newsrooms, with recurring rumors of cutbacks and open speculation about the future of the business and journalism. Newsroom morale, chronically bad in most places, is even worse these days–if that's possible. Fear and loathing is at a record pitch.So there's no excuse for management to add insult to injury by humiliating staff members.
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The edifice complex
Seth Godin via Seth's Blog on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Why do banks spend so much money on marble lobbies, high ceilings and yes, $400 million to name a baseball stadium?
Why do marketers buy TV ads that don't increase sales in the short run?
Why have a receptionist and not just a house phone where you can call the person you came to see?
For the same reason that so many people have a green front lawn.
It's o
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Confessions of an Unrepentant BlackBerry Addict
(unknown author) via HBR Editors' Blog on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
I have a confession: I like my BlackBerry.
I like checking my work email at home at all hours. I like reading about what's happening at work when I'm supposed to be decompressing on vacation. It comforts me somehow. I know what's happening. I'm not missing something importan
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Jerry Yang out
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
And Chairman Roy Bostock says it’s the right time for this to happen. I only wis
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Disruptive Factories
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogge on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Just a few minutes ago I was standing in the middle of a sea of cardboard boxes. They include power supplies for your XXXXXXX. Or new laptops made by XXXXXXXX. Or other consumer electronics goodies from brands you know and love. Sorry, the owner of the supply chain (Liam Casey founder of PCH) forced me to never tell what brands I saw being
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What's So Great About Information Overload? - Harvard Business Online's HBR Editors' Blog
(unknown author) via discussionleader.hbsp.com on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
David's comment highlights the twin casualties of information overload: the individual and the organization. When employees spend a good part of the day managing their Outlook inbox or reacting to rapid-fire alerts from RSS feeds, productivity and even creativity
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Time to Rethink the Times Co.?
Mark Potts via Recovering Journalist on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
These are very tough times in the news business, and they require some very tough thinking. Notorious Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget offers some tough prescriptions for The New York Times Co., including:
Sell the glitzy Times b
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I heart David Sedaris
Dan Lyons via Real Dan Lyons Web Site on Tue, 21 Oct. 2008
Check out this essay in the New Yorker about undecided voters. Money quote:
To put them [undecided voters] in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the c
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Going to the Googles
(unknown author) via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr' on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
Stephen Colbert and I chat about the Net and the future of man: Give it up....
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The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogge on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
This is my hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding. All of these point to FriendFeed. If you know someone who deserves to be on this list, please post their FriendFeed URL. Mine is: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer
I watch this list very closely and put the best stuff from
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In-the-Flow with Acumen Fund
Michael Idinopulos via Transparent Office on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
I blog a lot about the importance of in-the-flow collaboration: the idea that organizations adopt collaborative tools only when those tools are integrated into the flow of daily work. That idea resonates with a lot of readers, but so far I haven't said very much about how to do it.The other day, I saw a really great example of an in-the-flow collaborative tool a
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Play the Incomprehensible-Tech-Jargon Game!
(unknown author) via WSJ.com: Business Technology on Tue, 23 Sep. 2008
How well do you speak tech jargon? You can find out by playing a new online game.
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What Employees Really Do Online
(unknown author) via WSJ.com: Business Technology on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
Businesses are increasingly turning to the Internet to run software. Workers are increasingly using the Internet to do, well, whatever they want.
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Yahoo and The Color Purple
(unknown author) via WSJ.com: Business Technology on Wed, 17 Sep. 2008
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This is exactly what Yahoo needs to solve its problems.
Yahoo’s campaign to grab attention has gone slightly silly. The company has launched a Web site devoted to celebrating its corporate color: purple.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Intranet
Michael Idinopulos via Transparent Office on Tue, 16 Sep. 2008
This week a couple of customers I've been working with are unveiling their new corporate intranets...on Socialtext. What's interesting about both customer is that they didn't set out to replace their intranets. Originally, they were looking for knowledge management systems, to replace existing M-drives and document management systems. But as we started working together, both cu
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Newspaper executives: if you don't use the web you'll never understand it
(unknown author) via The Evolving Newsroom on Sat, 13 Sep. 2008
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Same goes for social media. Those who don't use it, won't understand it.
I enjoyed this rant from music blog The Lefsetz Letter which has a go at newspaper executives who are "online ignorant, even if they can speak the language, they’ve got no insight, be
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Newspapers are losing their social currency
(unknown author) via The Evolving Newsroom on Sat, 13 Sep. 2008
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I like the term "social currency". Nice way to describe what used to make newspapers so valuable.
I like Jack Shafer and this piece of his has some real resonance for me. He talks about how newspapers traditionally offered readers a form of social currency (explained more below) that's increasingly bei
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Businesses Say They Care About Security, But We’re Not So Sure
(unknown author) via WSJ.com: Business Technology on Fri, 12 Sep. 2008
Earlier this week, we wrote that businesses don’t care enough about tech security. A new survey of information-technology pros suggests they are at least aware of the problem.
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