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Newspapers: Why bother?

Tony Mayo

Why Speculate? You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. I have often remarked on this myself; now I learn it has an “official” name. A talk by Michael Crichton International Leadership Forum La Jolla April 26, 2002 …the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. In […].

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Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Christoper Nolan’s Dunkirk

Joseph Lalonde

Normally the shallowness wouldn’t bother me but for such an epic evacuation, I felt the story deserved more. You need to let people know who you are and why you are there. And he wanted to be in the local newspaper. You may not understand why things are happening when they’re happening. Not so much.

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More Dangerous Than a Drunk Driver - Traffic Stories

Building Personal Strength

Like the time the guy in front of me slowed down, stopped his car, turned off the ignition, got out and went into a store to buy something - without bothering to find a parking space! It bothered me so much that I made a list of what kinds of people would drive like that. Why am I telling you this? It was a sincere question.

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Black Holes - We Create Order out of Chaos

Building Personal Strength

We enjoyed the restored sense of order, but in truth that result was superficial and in a day or two most of the surfaces were covered with magazines, newspapers, pocket change, opened mail, clothing and other items. But the disorder bothered me. That’s why it’s hard to find. I have the same problem and it bothers me, too.

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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

Rick was covering the event to take photos and write an article for the base’s newspaper. Why was that the case? One can understand why ignoring poor performance is a behavior that a leader can easily fall prey to. I would love to know more about how and why this landed on the list. They don’t like giving bad news.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

Newspapers have been unbundled by blogs and classified ad sites. Why is this? And so the newspaper bundle, the idea of this slug of news and sports scores and classifieds and stock quotes that arrives once a day was a consequence of the printing plant. The fact that it was free and illegal didn’t seem to bother them too much.

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Apple's News Platform Battle

Harvard Business Review

An interesting battle is looming over Apple's newspaper and magazines subscription pricing for iOS devices (notably the iPad). That may not give Apple an advantage if publishers can sell their customers subscriptions who otherwise would not have been bothered. Apple's offer to publishers is simple.

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