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Iron Maiden In The Digital Age

A lack of radio exposure may have created challenges, but these prepared Iron Maiden for the digital era, when the industry’s traditional business model has broken down.

On Marketing and Innovation In The Current Business Climate

The fundamental problem, as Alan Murray wrote in The Wall Street Journal, is that the modern corporation might have outlived its usefulness. He says "the best corporate managers have become, in a sense, enemies of the corporation.

"The reasons for this are clear enough. Corporations are bureaucrats and managers are bureaucrats. Their fundamental tendency is toward self-perpetuation. They are, almost by definition, resistant to change. They were designed and tasked, not with reinforcing market forces, but with supplanting and even resisting the market."

So what do we have? Two immovable objects -- the big corporation and the even bigger U.S. government, both loaded with bureaucratic caution and inertia -- trying to cope with the biggest recession since the Great Depression. Not a very good combination to get things going again.

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What Big Brands Are Spending on Google

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Houston Downs Texas State in Season Opener, 68-28

Case Keenum completed 17 of 22 passes for 274 yards and five touchdowns to lead Houston to a 68-28 rout of Texas State Saturday in front of the largest crowd to watch a game at Robertson Stadium, 32,119.

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Some Photos We Took In South Texas Back in June

       

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Burger King's Whopper Bar Should Be Outlawed

 

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Tumblr Adds Some Attribution Capabilities

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