“You don’t need a business plan,” the self-styled expert says, feeling good when he or she does because it’s fun to be contrarian. It’s a good story because it’s man bites dog instead of dog bites man. But it’s posturing….
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Journalism
Good advice? In the first few weeks of my first real job, I was heading out to cover a student demonstration in Mexico City when my then boss, the bureau manager of UPI in Mexico City, told me: “Come back…
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I’m surprised by Seth Godin’s post Editors from late last week. Particularly this sentiment: Great products, amazing services and stories worth talking about get edited along the way. Most of the time, the editing makes them pallid, mediocre and boring….
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I love metrics. Metrics in business means some specific set of numbers you measure and get measured by, ideally numbers that anybody can understand. You know you have metrics when you find yourself checking the metrics every morning, every day,…
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“Tim,” Matt said, beer in hand, in a bar in Mexico City, “you have to learn about 50 words that will almost guarantee you play in the papers.” He swallowed. He looked at me and frowned. “But you’re so young,”…
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