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Blamestorming

“The Year the Media Died” — Can we all stop crying now?

An old friend shared this link with me last week — an incredibly ambitious undertaking, extremely well executed: a parody of Don Maclean’s “American Pie,” recast to survey the demise of the old media at the hands of the internet and Google. The piece is cute. It tests your sensibilities lyrically from time to time, [...]

Guilty of Schadenfreude: Economic troubles even harm Gartner

Thanks to industry colleague and friend Lance Shaw for this post to his Facebook profile: “Gartner cancels 2 upcoming ‘flagship’ conferences.” I wrote back at the time of the Gartner Symposium in Orlando – their surviving ‘flagship’ conference — pleading with their junior anal-ysts in particular to take a couple of affect lessons and consider how their [...]

Let the Blamestorming Begin!

As the prevailing state of things economic and political is “excitable,” and as we are nearing the typical year-end planning cycle for many companies, it’s time to start sharpening our rapiers and getting ready for another vicious round of “blamestorming.” You know — when we get to see the worst in our colleagues and bosses [...]

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