What will newspapers look like in 2020? That’s the burning question a number of people have been tackling lately, including Buzzmachine’s Jeff Jarvis, fellow Spin columnist Dave Morgan and Businessweek’s Stephen Baker.
Jarvis says that: By 2020, we had better hope that newspapers aren’t just papers anymore but are valued members of larger networks that enable their communities to gather, share, and make sense of the news they need.… Read the rest
Constantin Basturea pointed me (via Twitter) to Gallup’s latest annual rating of the images of 25 business and industry sectors:
… Read the restAmericans have rated most business and industry sectors more negatively over time, particularly since 2003.
This blog, AttentionMax, now is distinguished as an official M20: Top Marketer Blog, a new ranking created by Peter Kim, senior analyst at Forrester Research. Peter noted earlier when he first began experimenting with the ranking methodology:
… Read the restThere’s something different about the voices that come from the client-side of the table.
Steve Baker at Businessweek offered his prediction on the future of newspapers:
… Read the restEditors will go the way of the linotype machine. Increasingly, human editing will be viewed as an expense and a delay that few can afford. Algorithms, editing software and seach engines will handle much of the work.
I recently wrote that:
… Read the restI’m more convinced everyday that passion is the ultimate competitive advantage in business.
Competency is expected. Only flawless execution is tolerable.
But when you enable passion, you drive focus, cultivate mastery, leverage spontaneity, foster creativity, build intuition and live toward mission.
