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But what about you and your organization? As you get bigger and older, are you busy ensuring that a bad thing won't happen that might upset your day, or are you aggressively investing in having a remarkable thing happen that will delight or move a customer?
Here's a rule that's so inevitable that it's almost a law: As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring. With more to lose and more people to lose it, meetings and policies become more about avoiding risk than providing joy.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism. The former, represented by the United States, has broken down, and the latter, represented by China, is on the rise.
Thank God Ronald Regan didn't live to see this.
“(The) broadcast might be the next Kodak film, Xerox, Polaroid, beeper, VCR business to just fade away. Really smartphones with 4G connectivity are changing the world. Broadcast radio might be at the end. Some tech friends think the wave after 4G … WiMax/Ultra Wide Band radio technologies … will bring video smartphones. In 3-5 years even TV broadcasting will be replaced by these fast, mobile, infinitely smarter digital networks”.Advertisers are waiting for the right time to build their own direct connections with audiences.It will happen and some of the advertisers now working secretly on this would blow your mind – many are traditional big spending radio advertisers.
Question: If a company wants an active, aggressive presence on Twitter, how many people does it take?
Answer: One person working really hard, unencumbered by a clueless boss and a Luddite legal department, can do it. Certainly one person can get things going enough to prove that Twitter makes sense for a company to add more people to do it even better.
You can read this useful and interesting post at the link above.
I didn’t believe this story was true at first — thought it had to be a spoof. But it turns out to be true. The great banks of the world have gone on a p.r. counteroffensive in Europe, and are sending spokescrooks in shiny suits into churches to persuade the masses that Christ would have approved of the latest round of obscene bonuses.
First time I've come across the term "spokescrooks." From the same post:
"Some day, when historians finish peeling back all the different onion-layers of this financial disaster we’re living out right now, they’re going to find at the heart of it all this social Darwinist mantra wherein a very small group of overeducated twerps agreed to believe that stealing every last dime they could get their hands on was something other than what it looks and sounds like to the rest of us. That protective delusion was the first of the many luxuries they bought with all the money they stole, and see if it isn’t the last they agree to give up. What a bunch of assholes!"
