Conan’s Own Moral

Item #1:  Conan O’Brien’s final quote: “If you work really hard and you’re kind, I’m telling you, amazing things will happen.” Item #2, even better: Since Friday night, when O’Brien said it, thousands of people have re-tweeted that quote. At a random time two days later, still another 10 re-tweets per minute. Think the average […]

Conan, Leno, and a Business Moral

Nice article in the Washington Post by business columnist Steven Pearlstein, asserting that NBC’s late night troubles are an analog for what’s wrong with American Business. Among his observations: It starts with the mind-set that puts short-term profit over long-term value creation…. Unable to come up with something new and fresh, NBC’s fallback — like […]