Modern Voices

Does Journalism Have a Plan for the Future?

"Do we have a plan for the future, or are we just sort of reacting as things come at us?"

-- Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism

Business Philosophy by Newmark

“I’ve seen companies with too much revenue.  Having too much money, too many resources, means you don’t have to work smart, so you work dumb. And then you lose your market position to smaller, hungrier competitors. Also, when you have too much cash and power, you tend to attract employees who are very good at organisational politics but who are really bad at everything else.”

-- Craig Newmark, founder, Craigslist

What You Know Is Who You Know

“What you know is who you know.”

-- Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour

via INSEAD

Humor Gets You Only So Far

“Humour is a very good social lubricant. In many categories, humour can only play the role of breaking the ice. Further down, you’ve got to have an intense relationship to be able to get into [the customer’s] life … You can’t constantly keep cracking jokes and expect the customer to be humoured by you.”

-- Prasoon Joshi, chairman and  regional executive creative director, Asia-Pacific, McCann World Group at the World Effie  Festival 2008

Blog is Virtual Substitute for Bill Marriott

"It is the virtual substitute for Bill Marriott visiting every hotel"

--Kathleen Matthews, Global Communications, Marriott International

Employees around the world make up about one-fifth of the blog's readership and they comment frequently.
Bill Marriott doesn't use computers. Instead, he dictates entries into a recorder and a staff member transcribes and posts them. The audio is also on the site, which averages about 6,000 visitors per week and has had more than 600,000 total visitors since its inception in January 2007.

via Washington Post

Gates Defines Technology

"Technology is just a tool to let you do what your are interested in."

--Bill Gates
in an interview with Donny Deutsch, The Big Idea, CNBC

iPhone So Much More

"The iPhone is a game-changer."

--Matt Murphy, partner Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers

Profit is Consistent with Social Entreprenuership

“Social entrepreneurs identify opportunities for social profit where others see only problems. They are able to develop innovative business models that engage stakeholders and bring about social change.”

-- Pamela Hartigan, co-founder of the Schwab  Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and author of ‘The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets  that Change the World.’
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Social Entrepreneurs: Making Meaning and Making Profit

"We can no longer divorce where we do business from  where we do good.

You are part of a historical transition that will culminate with every business, large or small, having to be a social business. There has never been a more urgent time for connecting markets and meaning.”

--Pamela Hartigan, co-founder of the Schwab  Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and author of ‘The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets  that Change the World.’

             

Mainstream business, financial and political leaders are having to come to grips with emerging trends in value creation because consumers and voters are increasingly demanding that they do so.
via INSEAD

Amazon Get Ugly - Imposes Publisher Discipline by Removing BUY Button

"The buy button is their weapon of choice and that's how they impose market discipline."

"It's ugly with Amazon and will probably get uglier."

--Paul Aiken, executive director, Authors Guild

referring to Amazon's tactics in demanding a greater percentage