Archive for May, 2007
Fast Company Reduces Authenticity to a Brand Experience
Maybe I shouldn’t read Fast Company, but I do. I also read sites that reduce complex ideas into a series of bulleted “hacks” and mainstream news sites that can’t seem to step even a millimeter outside the guiding tropes of our very painful times.
If it’s just an occasional craving for outrage, then I can [...]
Posted: May 28th, 2007 under The Ideas, The Text.
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Narrow Self-Image in Civil Society Organizations
It is sometimes said that a narrow self-image prevented the wealthy American railroad companies from investing in automobiles and airplanes in the first half of the twentieth century. They saw themselves as being in the railway business, rather than in the transportation business. Thus, by the middle of the century, the modes of transportation that [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under The Ideas, The Text.
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