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Jim Hancock discusses the future of the music industry in light of an interview between Wired magazine and Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris.
Jim Hancock / Dec 5 2007
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Webware.com, a recently launched website by CNET, focuses on the fundamental shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet.
Sam Nguyen / Nov 14 2006
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The Tom Peters! Company posed four questions to a gathering of senior executives. They all had the same answer: disruption.
Jim Hancock / May 18 2006
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Glenn McMahan's recent trip to the U.S. from Brazil exposed a raw nerve among friends rocked by unemployment: "As the number of unemployed workers increases in the U.S. during this severe recession, many people are feeling an inner, less obvious pain: the sensation of being insignificant.”
Glenn McMahan / Feb 11 2009
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What internet space logged more page views in August (9.4 billion) than Google? That would be MySpace.com -- the upstart web company that is part Friendster, part Blogger, part MP3.com, part craigslist.
Jim Hancock / Dec 16 2005
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Rolling Stone and the Associated Press tell us something we know and something we don't about the uneasy relationship between the music industry and it's volatile customers.
Jim Hancock / Feb 17 2006
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It's easier to look at outside forces that challenge our business models because who in her right mind wants to believe she's dug her own grave?
Jim Hancock / Aug 20 2009
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"No show survives 135 years without making dramatic changes," Ringling Brothers' chief executive Kenneth Feld told the New York Times, acknowledging what we all know down deep.
Jim Hancock / Jan 6 2006
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Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh told Wired Magazine "Simultaneous release is already here. We're just trying to gain control over it." By "gaining control" he and partners Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner mean blowing the doors off the movie ind
Jim Hancock / Jan 20 2006
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An interesting note from the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg on who's serving whom in the computer market.
Jim Hancock / Jan 7 2006
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If housing and commercial real estate are any indicators, New Orleans will be back -- and profoundly changed.
Jim Hancock / Jan 4 2006
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In his first contribution to InsideWork, Glynn Young writes: "In any workplace, people quickly learn that it’s what you do that matters, not what you say. And even more importantly, it’s how you do it."
Glynn Young / Jul 24 2009
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Dan Wooldridge reflects on Blockbuster's looming bankruptcy and observes that it was the beliefs and assumptions of its leaders that made them unable to see the danger that they faced from Netflix.
If you’re in a job transition—whatever the reason—before polishing and upload your resume, take a deep breath and consider these ten principles on career change from the leadership strategist and executive coach Stephen G. Payne.
Sometimes reading the psalms feels like eavesdropping. Psalm 143 is like that for Howard Morrison, where it turns out he overhears a reassuring promise of exactly what he needs.