Alan Webber, Fast Company magazine co-founder and the author of
Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self (HarperBusiness, 2009), shares his insight into how to succeed in business when the game is changing while its being played.
Event
April 22nd 6:30PM at The Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St. (bet 1st and 2nd Aves.)
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Caller Tim
So glad to hear you articulate that, totally agree.
After 9/11 I feared the learning curve that so many Americans incl our president were about to undergo...it took some years but a presidential campaign in which Hope trumped Fear and/or Ignorance was proof that the majority of Americans had evolved the realization that this earth is complicated indeed.
Interesting to contemplate the correlation between this phenomenon, and the simultaneous national awareness of our "environment" and the narrative of the food we eat.
this interview and comments greatly angered me. I grew to national prominence in a niche market, in a company I built myself, only to have it destroyed by this economy. When that happened, I was forced to take a low level job, which I was then layed off from. I am 30. I have lost everything important to me. I chose not to have children - because my business was my child. Now I have nothing. I can't get a job because as a business owner I'm overqualified, or under qualified for everything. I have been unemployed for 7+months. I have explored everything I can think of.
For people like me, there is no silver lining, nothing left to explore. All I can do is pray some company takes pity on me. Shame on you for suggesting this is a way to find yourself - I found myself, and it was all taken from me.
"Rule of thumb" is the width of a stick that you can legally beat your wife with. Not a good name for a book.
Don't mislead my younger peers. I am a recent MSW graduate making 60K. You can make money and do good!
I just finished a 3-year part-time MBA program at NYU Stern, and let me say that the culture there has not changed at all. It is still all about finance and making as much money as possible. It was disgusting.
I appreciate Mr. Webber's expertise but I think its a mistake to get into the business of making rules and predicting what will or should happen. It exerts undue influence on the growth of media. For example, many of us believe that the Times is much more than the paper "of record". Its investigative journalism is also splendid and provides a voice of sanity in a media world dominated by the likes of Rupert Murdoch.
Sounds like platitudes.
Bolles wrote the same thing about careers in What Color is Your Parachute 30 years ago.
Megan's rules are classic sales rules that sales people have been reading in books for another 30 years.
Can Alan Weber tell us something that is non-obvious?
What's a surprising, unexpected non-platitude in his 52 truths?
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