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MBAs Are "A Menace to Society." George Bush and Katherine Weymouth Are MBAs - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

In his 2004 book, Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, Henry Mintzberg wrote, "MBA graduates who believe they can manage anything are quite simply a menace to society." Is it a coincidence that George Bush and Katherine Weymouth both have MBAs from the Harvard School of Business?

Can Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta Save My Space or Is It Toast? - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

Can Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta save MySpace by cutting 30 percent of its workforce? Probably not; MySpace is toast.

Star Trek: J.J. Abrams Is a Neuroscientist - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

Star Trek: The Future Begins, conceived and stunningly directed by J.J. Abrams and written by Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman, is an appropriate, much-needed myth for a new 21st century generation that brilliantly weaves the latest discoveries of neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics into the story.

Globe Writers Guild Punch Pinch - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

On Monday, June 8, members of the Newspaper Guild union at The Boston Globe rejected a package of wage and compensation cuts offered by the Globe's owner The New York Times Company, whose CEO is Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger. As a result, Pinch and the Times Company might close the venerable Globe.

AOL; Free at Last, Free at Last. AOL Is Free Again at Last - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

The day Time Warner announced it was spinning off AOL, a former colleague of mine at AOL (I was a VP there from 1998 to 2002) Twittered, "After nearly a decade of pain and confusion AOL is free again."

Sound Like Your CEO? - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

The June issue of the Harvard Business Review has a brief article in the Forethought section titled "Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders," by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, that describes the result of their research on 450 Fortune 500 executives. If you work in a large media company today, I'll bet when you read the ten flaws, you'll think it describes a CEO you know about -- even your own.

Which Media Companies Will Fall? - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

The cover of the current (May 25) issue of BusinessWeek features Good to Great author Jim Collins, and inside has an exclusive excerpt from his new book How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In.

Silicon Valley Insider: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

Like the character in Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the website Silicon Alley Insider has a split personality – when it's good, it's very good, and when it's bad, it's awful.

Tim Armstrong Gets It Right, "Silicon Alley Insider" Gets It Wrong - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

In an interview with Advertising Age Editor Jonah Bloom at the AAAA Leadership Conference, AOL's newly appointed CEO Tim Armstrong gave some insight into his plans for the beleaguered Time Warner unit. But you had to listen carefully to what he said to get a sense of what he was planning.

The Pinch and the Pauper - Charlie Warner - MediaBizBlogger

When I read an April 22nd Thomas Edsall blog on The Huffington Post, I got to daydreaming what Mark Twain might write if he were alive today and read what Edsall wrote.