Category: Leadership
Cox, Tribune and a story of self-disruption
In the disruptive digital world, only cannibals survive It’s now fashionable to trot out the Harvard Business School thesis on […]
Digital First Media – the end of the beginning
This is a great time to be in the news business – if you’re not a newspaper. Andreessen Horowitz just […]
Owning Your Own Destruction
Business synergy is a myth – chasing it is fruitless An established company is always tempted to position a new […]
Success Can Be Fatal
Any business leader worried about the future must build a culture that welcomes it For newspapers, the Internet offered one […]
Keeping Your Head Straight
It’s never the technology that’s important. It’s the market and economic forces driving it that matter the most Newspaper companies […]
Hubris Is Blinding
A simple rule of basic management: Under-estimate your own market position and over-estimate the competition Newspaper companies don’t have an […]
It’s What I Do
In any business, operating performance is a function of organizational culture. QED. We’ve all got stories about crazed managers and […]
A pox on the editor-priests
The future is never a straight line projection of the past Strange to say, newspapers suffered from years of recurrent […]
