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The editor of the Guardian talks to us about brave new frontiers for journalism, the hunt for a business model to pay for it all, and what he hopes (and fears)…about press regulation
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From Forbes (Hat tip: Ann Althouse)
I retired from corporate management a few years ago, but reading through these cliches brought back memories, and reminded me how “with it” we all were at the company where I worked. It also made me want to laugh at our perceived self-importance!
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2012 James Ament From Forbes, Ten Myths About Social Networking For Business. The introduction:
There is so much noise about social media, much of it not very helpful. Myths about how and why to use these networks abound, spread by networking neophytes and so-called experts (like me) alike.
The truth is the answers to these questions keep changing, because we are only beginning to understand how to harness social networks to unlock the Web’s true potential. We are learning, day by day. What none of us can afford is to stand by and watch it all unfold….
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 James Ament Steven Pressfield is an author I like, particularly his wonderful novel Gates of Fire. It’s a fictionalized story of the Battle of Thermopylae—a Greek location I visited in 2009—where a great quote reminds us of their valor: Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. (There are a number of translations of this quote; this is Steven Pressfield’s.)
Pressfield has written a new non-fiction book called Do The Work!. An exceprt from the linked article, which explains its content:
Pressfield and others recognized that “it’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance,” as he described in The War Of Art.
Last week, Pressfield released his latest non-fiction book, Do The Work!, which is the second release on Seth Godin’s new book publishing imprint, The Domino Project (powered by Amazon). The book (clocking it at under a hundred pages) reads more like a manifesto than a piece of non-fiction. In Do The Work!, Pressfield continues to chop away at the “Resistance” and weaves one of the best business books I’ve read in a long while. This book will leave you -and your business -with no other choice but to get down to doing the work (as the title implies).
“These are the forms of self-sabotage that we as artists and entrepreneurs inflict on ourselves…”
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 James Ament From The New York Times, an article that asks “why there aren’t more strong works of fiction dealing with the business world,” answers its own question, and then offers some good examples.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2011 James Ament 
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