Feb 6, 2024
Doctors don’t save patients in cardiac arrest by treating an unrelated skin rash. Radio, currently somewhere between serious and critical condition, is busy trying to treat its problems with calamine lotion. (So why did the headline borrow from print to write about...
Aug 6, 2023
An organization founded 108 years ago that has continued to thrive with a documented record of massively greater success than any of its competitors just imploded. Not-so-shocking development for you: there are lessons for every business vertical, particularly...
Jul 10, 2023
So here’s a development that shouldn’t surprise: the New York Times – the nation’s newspaper of record – is disbanding its entire sports department, instead counting on its ample, if recently downsized, staff of the recently purchased The Athletic for sports coverage....
May 31, 2023
When I was in high school, I had an incredibly obnoxious government teacher who, whenever a student made an accurate, but largely meaningless, point, would sarcastically yell out, “Whoop de doo!” I wish I could remember his name because I keep hearing his voice in my...
Feb 5, 2023
20+ years ago, the great Jack Trout wrote a book called “Differentiate Or Die: Survival In Our Era Of Killer Competition.” Six years after his passing, the competition ain’t getting any less killer. In other news, podcasting is, apparently, passéing...