Like many other people, I’ve been following the virtual meltdown at the CBC over its new (i)copyright rules. For a great summary of the back and forth I strongly encourage you to check out Jesse Brown’s blog. In short the terms of use of the CBC seemed to suggest that no one was allowed to [...]
Entries tagged as “business strategy”
CBC: A Case Study in what happens when the Lawyers take over
Negotiating – how not to manage tension
Last week Rob Cottingham pointed me to ReadWriteStart piece entitled Learn to Negotiate and Close. It’s filled with some good – if unfortunately titled – advice particularly around focusing on listening and not derailing a deal by talking too much (“Two Ears, One Mouth”) as well as speaking to your client/prospective partner’s interests (“Wait Until [...]
How the Mighty Fall vs. The Black Swan
I’ve almost finished listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan, a book about how large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. At the same time, Tim O’Reilly caused me to stumble upon this article previewing Jim Collins’ (author of Good to Great and Built to Last) new book “How the [...]
Print Media: Nostalgia is not a growth model (or, on why being online is better than than paper)
Two years ago Taylor and I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review (which they opted not to publish) critical of Kuttner and the CJR’s faith in the print-hybrid model for media. After having it sit on our hard drives all this time we are putting it up for reading and commenting. It is, [...]
Microsoft: A case study in mismanaging a business ecosystem
A lot of fuss has been made about Microsoft’s inability to compete in the online space and the web specifically. Indeed, it is widely acknowledged that Microsoft was slow to understand the web’s implications and adjust its product lines accordingly. How did the largest, most successful software company in the world fail to predict or [...]
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