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During the last period we can recall the Savings and Loan and Junk Bond Scandal everyone was up in arms over that. It led to a public mindset that all business people were greedy and evil. One songwriter in the band Jefferson Starship who wrote "We Built This City on Rock and Roll" had a verse in his song; "Someone always playing corporation games; Who cares they're always changing corporation names."
The songwriter captured the minds of the masses. But who said Corporations are bad? They bring us everything we desire. Entrepreneurs are not evil, they bring us everything we see and everywhere we go. Someone produced it, sold it, invented it and made it. You bought, because you desired it. Today we see similar attitudes in our societies and today's songwriters like Bono, attacking the corporate interests of the world. We need both of them. Yes we need the corporations for those things we desire and some Bono types out there to help the masses cope. But why is everyone so stressed out?
The media has incited the masses with the Enron, World-Com, Adelphia, Arthur Anderson, US Foods, Global Crossing, WebVan and paraded our TV sets with the names of the purported perpetrators. But really there are so few actual bad people in corporate America. Even academia and PhD's have got into the scene now, painting entrepreneurs and executives with a broad stroke. There are many such individuals, which offer great products or services at fair prices to consumers and provide things for the world that are extremely important. Some contend that ethical business is an oxymoron and that if you were truly ethical by nature your belief system would be in conflict with your job. I would say that a corporate executive position does not necessarily counters someone's belief system if they are a worthy or benevolent by nature human beings. When those from academia, reporters or mere TV watchers who do not understand such individuals and make a blanket statement such as calling their belief system an inner struggle and ethical corporate profession an Oxymoron. I question this really.
From my own personal experience I have created businesses which serve mankind, individual running them and are conflict free. And further would like to point out that there is nothing more noble than an entrepreneur capitalist who provides for civilizations desires.
If we label all executives and business this people who work in corporations; where shareholders equity and quarterly profits and the best interests of the owners of that business, stock holders must be of the highest priority; then in fact the we end up labeling those who truly care and create win/win /win situations for themselves, investors and consumer of end products or services; as self serving. Which they maybe in fact be true, yet without that there will be no incentive to do anything. I would like to recommend Ayn Rand and Charles Dickens to you if you are not following or disagree with my contention.
If we tell humans they have inner conflicts or should have ethical and moral conflicts in their jobs then they might start feeling inferior in the corporate inner circles where organizational capital is king, thus we have weakened the corporation and the entrepreneurs involved to a point it effects the flows of our civilization and therefore affected the quality of life and cause stress to the masses.
So let's listen to the radio and realize indeed; we did build this city on Rock and Roll with the help of our corporations and entrepreneurs. And if it was not for us, you morons would be living on dirt flows with your farm animals contracting bird flu. Stop condemning business people, lest you will have nothing. Just shut up and give thanks. Think about it.
"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/. Lance is an online writer in retirement.
It's About The Content, Not The Pipes!
Forgive me, but aside from the horrible economy, 2009 is starting to sound a lot like 1999 at the intersection of communication and technology. As with the dot.com explosion, everyone, it seems, is in technological awe of how Twitter will change our lives forever (last year, of course, it was Facebook).
This reminds me of 1999, when “everyone†was sure the day would come when we ALL bought EVERYTHING on the Internet, including groceries. Well, that prediction didn’t quite come true. It’s not a failure of technology. Certainly, ecommerce is here to stay. I am not a curmudgeon who challenges technology (I have my 3G iPhone loaded with plenty of cool apps).
No, it’s a failure of focus. You see, communication is not all about the fact that you can Tweet or Twitter or that you’re Twittering right now (with or without excitement). No, communication is all about communication. Well, duh.
As I often tell clients, if we were still dragging clubs and living in caves, we could still tell everyone who cared (and many who didn’t) what we just ate for lunch without sending a Tweet. It would just take a lot longer and be a heck of a lot less immediate, with much smaller reach.
At times like these, a useful analogy is helpful.
The delivery of clean, fresh water has been a human need since the dawn of time. The same is true of successful communication. Societies, the record shows, need both to grow and thrive.
Yet when I examine conversations (online and otherwise) about the need for fresh water in sub-Saharan Africa, the debate is not about how cool the pipes are, how thick their walls are, the size of the pumping stations, water pressure, etc., etc. Now I know that among a small community of companies and people who build pipes and water stations, that dialogue exists. Among those who need fresh water and those who hope to provide it? Nope.
It’s the same with communication. It’s about the content, not the pipes! Sure, I use TweetDeck. I’m up to speed on CoTweet and lots of other apps and sites and communities that are useful tools. Tools. Yes, tools, as in pipes that provide fresh water, not the live-giving liquid itself. As in, tools that enable communication.
Review your Tweetstream. And then ask yourself this question: Just because I CAN Twitter my every move, should I? There is where the real debate belongs: How can we use these tools to communicate more effectively and more efficiently?
When Twitter enables the first report of the Hudson River plane crash, there’s the germ of a communication opportunity out there. While the ability to send a TwitPic from a breaking news event is noteworthy, what’s truly revolutionary is the process of figuring out how to use this technology to tell compelling stories to interested audiences, not the technology itself.
That’s our focus here at WordWrite, and with the explosion of instant, broad technological tools to communicate in the 21st century, I would argue that it’s never been more important to focus on what you have to say, rather than getting lost in the weeds of how you can say it.
Your story has never been more important, and while how you tell it is an essential aspect of communication success, it’s still about the content, not the pipes. Here’s to drinking deeply from that pipe.
About the Author
After two decades in public relations, journalism and government, Paul Furiga founded WordWrite Communications, putting his award-winning storytelling skills to work for companies with great untold stories.
Every company has at least one great story to tell: its own. WordWrite’s team of corporate storytellers help shape that story and share it with everyone who needs to hear it.WordWrite has emerged as one of the fastest-growing PR firms in Pittsburgh. Its clients range from MEDRAD, Inc. to Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Pfizer Inc., Cowden Associates and Koppers Inc.
What was the worst start-up failure of the first internet bubble?
Webvan? Pets.com, boo.com? Check these out - http://www.insidecrm.com/features/20-worst-vc-investments-111907/
Which one was the worst? Which start-up do you think will be the worst failure of the current bubble?
My vote would be for Kosmo. It may not have been bigger than HomeGrocer/WebVan, but the economics of the business were so outrageous that you have to wonder how anyone could even imagine a profit from it.
All Aboard The Bubble Express
Bubbles sometimes do have a use. WorldCom might be the price we pay to get a Google. They're not always easy to tell apart.
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