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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Let’s be honest.

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Morning Advantage: The Sky Is Falling, but the Ceiling Is Fine

Harvard Business Review

So commences McKinsey Quarterly's report on the firm's latest survey on global economic conditions (which was in the field during the week leading up to the Greek elections). Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report. MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE STATES. I WANT TO TAKE YOU HAIER.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Let''s be really optimistic and suppose that $100 billion survives, at least in the short term, out of inertia, and because there will always be moments when McKinsey must meet with clients face to face. Will it happen?