Not speaking up might doom your project to failure

posted on February 14, 2007 in

The ability of senior leaders to execute on business strategy depends largely on whether employees are encouraged to speak up about project failures. A simple dynamic — called “organizational silence” — causes 85% of failed business programs and projects, according to a research study by The Concours Group and VitalSmarts.

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YouTube and TV

posted on February 1, 2007 in

Fred Wilson asks

Will the Web always be the minor league of video” and the equivalent “The question is: Will the TV always be the pinnacle of fame.”

The answers are no, and no, respectively.

The web will not always be the minor league of video, assuming that you include interactivity (even in a limited sense) in that definition.   Interactive, multi-angle, exploratory video is much more likely to be the future of video, instead of the flat presentation we have now.  To a generation growing up on video games, the ability to interact with the screen and the characters is important, and it will only get more important over time.
And the TV will not always be the pinnacle of fame, for the same reason that radio is no longer the pinnacle of fame, nor composers and authors before that.  Eventually, games and interactive media will become the pinnacle of fame, if not something else.  Again, look at it in generational terms.

Now, if I constrain myself by adding “in the next 5 years” to each of those questions, my answer is yes, and yes.