SubscribeA word for managers
October 28, 2008 at 9:22 p.m.
From Joe Grimm, until recently of the Detroit Free Press, in his most recent (and always-excellent) Ask the Recruiter column:
We imperil our companies and our own careers when we do not listen closely to young people, whose experience with media is so different than our own and whose ideas may hold some of the solutions. Invite them into the strategy sessions, encourage them to really brainstorm and explain -- and then try some new ways.
Joe also has a blog.
Everything and nothing
May 26, 2008 at 3:02 a.m.
Ryan Sholin asks in this month's Carnival of Journalism:
What should news organizations stop doing, today, immediately, to make more time for innovation?
A scene from the Grey's Anatomy season finale I saw last night comes to mind:
A young man is trapped in quick-dry concrete, which he jumped into because he thought it would impress a girl. While he's moaning in ER--the cement is leaching water from his body, burning his skin, crushing him slowly--the team of doctors, who are all highly gifted and well-trained, is arguing over what has to be done first.
Finally, the ...
