{"id":689,"date":"2006-11-06T23:56:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T03:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/11\/06\/leverage-those-core-competencies-baby\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T23:56:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T03:56:23","slug":"leverage-those-core-competencies-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/11\/06\/leverage-those-core-competencies-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Leverage those core competencies, baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

So CBS wants to find and buy<\/a> the next YouTube before it gets big. Gee, I wonder why no one else has thought of that? Way to go, CBS. And so they’ve hired a guy who at the age of 35 is described as a “veteran” of the industry, and of the takeover game. Why — because he helped advise Viacom to buy Neopets? Wow. That’s rocket surgery for sure.<\/p>\n

What Quincy Smith seems to have picked up during his time on The Street is the ability to say a whole bunch of really great sounding phrases that actually mean diddly-squat. Here’s a great one that PaidContent highlighted<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The important thing is that we get confidence internally on a set interactive strategy that will immediately change and be organic as we grow. From there we can think about how we can execute on this as a team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"trader\"<\/p>\n

Did you get that? In other words, it’s important to get confident — internally, of course, as opposed to externally — and to set a strategy. Wouldn’t it be better to get confident after<\/i> deciding on a strategy? Never mind. Because that strategy is going to “immediately change” anyway. And, it’s going to be organic, which as we all know is the best kind of strategy to have. <\/p>\n

And then, of course, after getting confident and having the strategy (the organic one that immediately changes) then it’s time to think about how to execute. Not actually execute — which is a fancy word Wall Street types use when they really mean “do” — but just think about it for awhile. <\/p>\n

In other words *we don’t have a clue what we’re doing.” Or phrased differently: “I’d better come up with something good, or it’s back to hedge-fund land.”<\/p>\n

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So CBS wants to find and buy the next YouTube before it gets big. Gee, I wonder why no one else has thought of that? Way to go, CBS. And so they’ve hired a guy who at the age of 35 is described as a “veteran” of the industry, and of the takeover game. Why … <\/p>\n

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