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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products," he explained. "We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are. via businessweek.com Lessons in innovation. There are a couple of key points that I took from this interview, based on my own experience on both sides of the fence (as a media player, reporting on tech success, and as an innovator trying...
Yes, faced with odds as big as these, the average citizen of a troubled South Africa in late summer ’08 is sorely tempted to give up. Or, even worse, just leave. But that is an average citizen I’m talking about. Not you. You’re a maverick. Giving up is not an option, here or anywhere, any time. You know who you are, and you know what you value in life. You understand that selling your principles is a sacrifice that will leave you scarred for the rest of your life, a price that is too much to pay for a human being...
Media is seeing competition like never before: from non-traditional media companies and from their own readers. If you think about it, pretty much all companies on the net are de facto media companies — some more advanced than others. via matthewbuckland.com I'd agree with Matthew on this. Seems to me that progressive marketing managers might even start thinking things like "Rather than *use* traditional media, let's *build* our own, aggregate interesting and complementary information, and provide it to...
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision. via 75.co.za Instantly memorable. The pic says it all.
Steve Levy: Going back to disruptive internet companies from 1990s - "could an established company have understood how to build a great internet company?" Bezos: "One of the statistics I saw in 1994 that encouraged me to start Amazon was that net usage was growing 2300% a year. But it was still tiny... One of the biggest problems with big companies doing clean sheet innovation is that even if you see it, you have to be a really long term thinker, because for a long time it will be a tiny slice of the company...
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. via insightoftheday.com Michael J. Fox What ever the situation, when circumstances conspire to bring you to your knees, and to kick you when you are down ... dig deep, stand-up, dust yourself down ... and face your circumstances with dignity. If you can. If you have to, run ... there is such a thing as dignity in defeat, whatever the win-at-all-costs media would have you believe. All the better...
via austinkleon.com A newspaper blackout poem By Austin Kleon
Your bodies are right because you've done the preparation, now your minds have to be right. You don't blame the guy who drops the ball, or the guy who's not there to cover the situation, because you're a team, and you're all in it together, and it's how you react when your backs are to the wall that will show what kind of team you are. via independent.co.uk The lessons of leadership. If only there was more of this in business today. It seems that when push comes to shove, and your back is against the wall...
From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! --Old Scottish Prayer via frontlinethoughts.com A year ago, just last January, the US 2009 budget deficit was estimated at "only" $1.2 trillion. Yet as of this week, total US debt is $11.3 trillion and rising rapidly. So the world is going to have to fund multiple trillions in debt over the next several years. As John Mauldin suggests, "Pick a number. $5 trillion sounds about right. $3 trillion...
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