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Old 06-11-2009, 06:59 PM  
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Originally Posted by boneprone View Post
Flanders: I have operated in the media business my entire career and have taken on situations with businesses in transition. Everywhere I?ve gone I?ve been a change agent. In 1999, I joined Columbia House, which was a $1.5 billion marketer of music and VHF tapes right before Napster was released and DVDs emerged. We had a business that was over 50 years old, that started in the same timeframe as Playboy, that needed to migrate into the new model, including online. I think that singular experience is most analogous to the opportunities for Playboy.

What ever happend to Columbia House?
LOL yeah my favorite line was "hoping" when i read it i got up in the office and went off my whole office turned to look at me yelling: "if i hired someone to turn around a business and he used the word hoping i would fire his ass"
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