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[Todd Terry]

[Phillip Wnuk] “they got their 80 million in overages from the city.”

Shoulda asked for a percentage on that one!

T2

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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com

[Ron Lindeboom]

The other day I was talking to our tech director, Abraham, about the changing marketplace and world economy and I mentioned Alan Greenspan’s book, The Age of Turbulence, to him.

Today, I got a call from Abraham that he had his wife order him a copy because he had watched Meet the Press this weekend and Alan Greenspan was on it. He told me that “…he was clearly head and shoulders above the others that were on the show. He knew what was happening in the world and when he talked, it was clear that he was telling you things that you needed to be aware of if you were serious about your future.”

Smart guy, Abraham. It is one of the reasons we hired him.

In contrast, I wonder why people who are in business and think they are serious about their businesses, will not read Greenspan, Kotler, Friedman, Smick, or any of the other economists/futurists who have insights into the changing marketplace in which we all interact.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

[Tim Wilson]

One of my favorite things about Greenspan: he recently admitted he was wrong. After decades as the face of deregulation, since “markets always operate in their own self-interests,” he testified before Congress that he had noooo idea that, left to their own devices, markets will throw themselves on the rocks of their own greed.

It was quite remarkable to see the man so visibly shaken. All he had to do was not show up, not open his mouth, and he would have been lionized, and at least in the debate on who was the most influential economist of his time….and whether his influence was good or bad. Well, now he’s told us that he thinks he was asleep at the switch. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a public figure so honest about his mistakes.

Our grandkids will still be paying for them…and he knows it…which was all the more reason to hide. You have to respect a man for throwing a 50-year legacy under the bus, hoping to start steering it in the right direction.

So yes, people who are in business, yet refuse to learn the lessons of both success and failure of those who have gone before, or learn from the insight of people smart enough to figure out that, to survive, they need to change what they’ve been doing for most of their lives — my guess is that people who won’t take a few hours to trouble themselves for that won’t be in business much longer.

Too cheap to buy a $15 book from Amazon? Pick it up the next time you take your kids to the public library. You ARE taking your kids to the public library, right? Library doesn’t have it? Buy it and DONATE it to the library, then write it off. You can be cheap and generous at the same time.

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Tim Wilson] “You have to respect a man for throwing a 50-year legacy under the bus, hoping to start steering it in the right direction.”

Yes, it was pretty remarkable to see a man who for the last few decades has been what many would argue as being the most powerful man in the world, come clean about the changing face of capitalism, the whole concept of laissez faire — especially in an age of Sovereign Wealth Funds, etc — and how that the changing marketplace is likely to be one in which today’s “entitlement generation” is likely to not only inherit a debt they’ll never be able to repay — but also do it without the internal will or knowledge of how to compete in today’s world.

Now, was that a run-on sentence, or what? ;o)

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Gandhi

[Christopher Wright]

And while you are throwing out titles about economic theory and trends,
don’t forget to include the books that will really tell you
what is happening and why in our current economic “downturn;”
“No Logo,” and “The Shock Doctrine” by Naomi Klein,
as well as just about any book on economics written by Naom Chomsky.

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[Ron Lindeboom]

Let’s see: you complain about the economy and read whom you profess “really” can help you, and I don’t complain about the economy and benefit from what I learn from the writers I cite. That said, I think I’ll stick to the ones that can REALLY help you get your brain wrapped around the Brave New World.

Not to say that your choices are bad, they aren’t. Just a little bit dated is all. And in today’s world, dated is another way of saying “not currently pertinent” — at least not to mere mortals like us.

Lastly, why over the years do you always try to step on the toes of whatever I say, Christopher? It has been this way for years.

Do you enjoy it?

Ron Lindeboom