By The Time I Stepped Down As

The Obama Campaign Is One Of The Greatest Examples Of What Is Possible In The Brave New World Of 21st Century Marketing. They Did A Masterful Job Of Connecting With Minds, Personalizing Messages, Refining Old And New Media, Sending Clear Messages, And Providing The Feedback That Enabled Them To Respond To The Messages They Heard.

We're Living In A Different World Now In Terms Of Employee Needs, And Companies Have To Offer Alternative Methods For Getting The Work Done. Even Under The Most Difficult Circumstances You Can Have Creative Flexibility.

The Hardware Business Is All About Per-unit Manufacturing Cost And Functionality. The Services Business Is Less Asset-intensive And More Dependent On People.

I Worked In Sales. It Was Definable, It Had A Quantifiable Approach To Accomplishment That Had A Great Deal Of Importance To Me. It Had A Degree Of Clarity That I Loved. And Of Course, It Was Core.

I Got A Journalism Degree. I Started Doing Journalism - I Interned At 'cosmopolitan' Magazine In The 1970s, Which Probably Wasn't The Best Place For Me, And I Spent Six Or Nine Months Freelancing. Anyway, I Wasn't That Good At It.