The media company Warner Bros./Discovery has been in play for months. It just accepted a bid from Netflix for $83 billion — for its production studio assets and HBO Max streaming services only. This deal may face antitrust scrutiny for consolidation in the streaming space and may not go through. Paramount/Skydance and Comcast/NBC were outbid…
To write and publish a business book is to say “The world is different from what you thought it was. Here’s what to do about it.” If you are undertaking a business book, you must decide what your manifesto is. Some prominent manifestos for your consideration It’s not a coincidence that it’s easy to write…
Newsletter 127. Balancing between your inspiration and your audience’s desires. Plus, is publishing in crisis, Google powers a publisher, three people to follow and three books to read. What do your readers want? Authors are often torn. On the one hand, they passionately want to tell their own story and share their own unique insights…
About 20% of the time, authors I work with stop making progress. This pause often lasts months. It also saps authors’ energy and creates guilt and sadness. If this is you, I want you to feel better. So here’s some advice on what to do if your book appears to be stalled. Step 1: Forgive…
Publishers and authors are panicking about the appropriate uses of AI. It’s a nuanced problem, because AI use creates issues of quality, copyrightability, and disclosure. Wiley, publisher of vast numbers of business books, has now published its extensive guidelines online for all to see. Wiley’s guidelines are a great start Given some of the shortsighted…
Technology disruption is practically a cult in Silicon Valley. Here’s one definition: Technology disruption occurs when a new approach changes the basis of competition in an industry. It triggers a discontinuity: established architectures, competencies, and business models become misaligned with what customers now value. Incumbents struggle to adapt, and the upstart ultimately reshapes or replaces…
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Newsletter 125. When it’s time to change jobs, how AI destroys the writer-reader relationship, an AI-powered romance bookstore, plus three people to follow and three books to read. The pursuit of career happiness Should you be looking to change what you do for work? As the Thanksgiving break approaches (for US workers), it’s a time…
I’m easy. I make friends with almost anybody. Of course, we have to have something in common. I have 4,240 LinkedIn connections. That’s probably not unusual for somebody who has been in the working world for 46 years. I don’t seek out people on LinkedIn. But I get a lot of inbound requests. I don’t…