Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Forty years ago, Stanley Kubrick showed us 2001. It''s hard to imagine that working as the intro to a YouTube video today.  The first 90 seconds are without dialogue and solid black.   Instead, our finger is on the mouse trigger, ready to leave in a moment. Who would love this that I should send it to?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Forty years ago, two companies were known for aggressively recruiting minorities on college campuses: IBM and Xerox , both considered hot tech companies of that era. My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. The Numbers.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2016

years after initial occurrence. For example, news stories today continue to reference former American Apparel CEO Dov Charney’s odd behavior of walking around the company’s offices in his underwear, even though it was first reported over 10 years ago. In most cases, the CEO is terminated.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Today, I have an actual black market link to share thanks to reader Oleg from Crimea. Oleg Currency Limits The official foreign exchange limit is 3000 hryvnias per day, down from 15,000 a year ago. I hear various reports of what the hryvnia actually trades for on the black market in Ukraine. That''s less than $100 a day.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Forty years ago, passengers didn’t know which airline flew where and when. And forty years ago, airlines had no easy way to find out who wanted to fly somewhere. Today, of course, there’s no shortage of information or ability to connect. Not just travel agents, but all agents.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Forty veterans died while waiting for appointments at the Phoenix VA alone. Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis.

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CaseInterview.com

JUNE 13, 2019

It replicates all of the stages of a three- to six-month engagement in approximately thirty or forty minutes. It started many decades ago and has since been broadened to be adopted in other industries as well. Topics Covered: What is a Case Interview? What is the Difference Between a Case & Regular Job Interview? Let me back up.

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MishTalk

JULY 29, 2013

Almost forty years later and having supervised the municipal trading/sales and banking areas at four different investment banks I still am on the watch for the green bugs in the milo. In a followup guest post on the Big Picture blog, Kotok offers More on Munis, Detroit, Bloomberg, Whitney & Wilson. There are many of them.

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MishTalk

JUNE 15, 2014

Today, the share who are ideologically consistent has doubled: 21% express either consistently liberal or conservative opinions across a range of issues – the size and scope of government, the environment, foreign policy and many others. The share who are consistently liberal has quadrupled from just 5% to 23% over the past 20 years.

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