Case studies that resonate
LinkedIn: Great customer stories are important, but well-packaged ones win the day. In a complex marketplace, staying ahead on product alone gets harder every year.…
Gotta get a message to you
There are about a quarter of a million words in the English language. Use them wisely. Words matter. Even a single word can be important.…
Book review: Moneyball
SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Moneyball by Michael Lewis Here's the dilemma: You are a Major League Baseball team's general manager, and you have $50 million…
Gene Johnson — True inventor of basketball’s fullcourt press
Gene Johnson of Wichita University invented the full-court press in the 1930s. This fact should be a slam dunk. I used ChatGPT to correct an…
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Us lucky sevens – Remembering Paul Johnson
Remarks on Paul "Pableaux" Johnson in Austin • April 12, 2025 Good afternoon. A reading from Paul: “Brick House” by The Commodores ought to be…
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Kid K Returns — The Cubs’ Kerry Wood
TIMEOUT CHICAGO Kid K Returns In reclaiming a beloved icon, the Cubs regain leadership and clubhouse presence at a critical time. Seated before his locker…
Entrepreneur: Corporate Incubators
INTRAPRENEURISM — WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE? 2013 Large players hope to reap reward from entrepreneurs – and vice versa © 2024 Stuart Wade Funding. Flexibility.…
Book Review: Why The Stony Face?
An engrossing look at how Rushmore came to a head By Stuart Wade SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN A recent headline in the popular newspaper-parody The…
EME Part VIII: Open web, early money
Latest entry in my Excellent Media Experiences - introduction and complete index here. The most recent prior entry covered the arrival of cable TV. Nobody misses the…
The Island of Lost Maps
Hartford Courant, 2000 The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey — Random House, $24.95 Was Gilbert Bland only in…
Excellent Media Experiences: Introduction
*Before the Internet “People and places were websites.” That thought wouldn't have made any sense in 1979, standing in the showroom of my local hi-fi…
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30 years of prank letters — and what we learned
Absurd queries, corporate comms evolution “…the deadpan and gullible responses from major corporations, especially when read aloud, bring on fits of laughter.” The New York…
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The best and only advantage
Competitors will take apart your product. They'll reverse-engineer your process. Almost overnight, they'll duplicate your innovations, match your price, and mimic your services. But the…
This post contains zero thought leadership
The phrase 'thought leader' has become corporate jargon at its least compelling, often signaling more about someone's branding than their actual contributions. The phrase "thought…
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The future arrived right on schedule
SOUTHWEST SPIRIT 2011 Future-Present Tense Mobile Lifestyles Are Ready to Accelerate In his 2002 thriller “Minority Report,” Steven Spielberg envisioned a future powered by fantastically…
A journal entry for Paul
Remembering Paul "Pableaux" Johnson one year after his death A winter storm arrived this weekend, a burst of arctic air and frozen rain that shut…
National champions
Indiana completes the single greatest turnaround in college football history and caps a perfect season in CFP title game thriller over Miami Fernando Mendoza leaps.…
Excellent Media Experiences* VII: Cable TV
* Before the Internet Cable television is near death. Household penetration peaked above 80% in 2011. By last year more than 80 million subscribers had…
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