December 2010 - Managing Greatness

December 2010

December 27, 2010

Peter Berger Explains Demand Media

Gil / 2 Comments / Industry Analysis / Content Farms, Demand Media /

Give Business Insider credit on their coverage of Demand Media. They’ve published insightful analyses, ranging from highly critical to extremely bullish. The best by far was Suite101 CEO Peter Berger’s Hater’s Don’t Understand Demand Media which provided useful insights into the model Demand and Suite101 employ. [Disclosure: Like Berger, I work at a company (Answers.com) […]

Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

December 8, 2010

Superstars vs Systems, Gladwell & Technicolor Dreamcoats

Gil / 0 Comments / Management / Bible, Joseph and Judah, Malcolm Gladwell, Management, Superstars, Talent /

Last week I read Malcolm Gladwell’s essay The Talent Myth, saw Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat (again), and pondered the Biblical Joseph vs Judah story that climaxes in this week’s Torah reading. Start with Gladwell. He has fun with articles that celebrated Enron’s talent culture, for example lauding how managers were encouraged to poach each […]