I wonder if the NYT will publish this? Bill, would you find this to add for your readers? "Exclusive: NYT sued by shareholders over biased Israel coverage." In this FP article it includes the fake news about an emaciated boy, along w/ more. I can't imagine the NYT publishing biased news against blacks or Hispanics like this. I will add that there is plenty of other fake news that is awful & deserves to be published & called out. Should not ignore any of it.
& about the places to retire to, in our community a woman from Viet Nam has retired, joined one of the many groups we have; the writers group. She has been writing her story: In 1975, Cham Baird left her homeland, Vietnam, on a military aircraft empty-handed but for the clothes she wore. She arrived in America as a refugee with no money, no home, no future. All Cham knew was that she had escaped communism, and that somewhere, somehow, she would find safety and freedom. Over the decades that followed, Cham rebuilt a life from the ground up, piece by piece. She learned resilience not from books, but from living it day by day, just trying to survive, assimilate in this new life, and overcome challenges. Many beginnings, many starting overs. Between full-time work and night school, Cham earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and business. After almost two decades in corporate America, Cham traded a management position and took risks to pursue an independent lifestyle, becoming a business owner. In the first two years, she attended school to earn a master’s degree (MBA). Cham had loved, lost, and found love again, a companionship that brought steadiness and peace into her life. She has begun to heal and understand identity and belonging, shaping her into the person she is now.
After over two decades running her business, Cham retired and stepped into writing. Her story is one of resilience, healing, and transformation—shaped by the experiences that carried her from Vietnam to America, from a refugee with no voice to a woman who finally found hers. Cham writes to turn memory into strength, a voice through written words that she once had to leave behind.
Here you are again, trying to write your own newsletter in the comments section on the back of Bill’s newsletter with cut & paste of other people’s comments. Moreover, you are trying to tell Bill what he should write.
& there you go again, seeing only one side of what I wrote, didn't see that I wrote all fake news needs to be reported on. And no comment about the woman writing her story after coming from Viet Nam. You should go write your own totally biased left-sided close-minded newsletter.
Shareholders have recourse to organize and vote out the Board of Directors or sell their shares. It kind-a depends on who's buying. I know a lot of folks who are still buying - perhaps to keep playing that word game (I've already read many commenters who love the games)? And guess what: Games, recipes, and product reviews are the revenue centers for the NYT.
I know from commenters on some liberal sites who proclaim NYTs as gospel truth & they'll totally dismiss this as fake news & keep on shelling out their $$ & read'n & putting in words of praise, 'oh, according to the NYT', or 'here's a link from the NYT'.
I’m not commenting on the content, even though it is Bari Weiss. I am commenting on the gall you display to co-opt Bill’s newsletter for your own purposes.
“Culture is leadership at scale” made me wonder about the mechanism underneath it. Once an organization is too large for a leader to influence people directly, what actually carries that influence? What gets repeated, rewarded, tolerated, noticed? Maybe culture is partly the accumulation of those signals over time.
Well spoken. I think the influence of leadership diffuses into an organization. In a startup, it happens pretty quickly. In a big company, I don’t know. Now I’m wondering if percolation describes the process
Percolation is an interesting way to think about it. Especially because the influence probably doesn’t travel unchanged. It passes through layers of people, decisions and local norms along the way. Now I’m wondering what gets amplified, diluted or transformed as it moves.
I’m not an expert on this at all, but I had lots of experiences in different sized companies. I bet that there are some (not sure what the noun should be) things that bubble thru an organization unchanged, like desire to please the leader. Maybe whatever is associated with the survival instinct passes around easily?
That’s interesting. I’m not sure I’d call it survival instinct yet, but you’ve made me wonder why some signals travel through an organization much more faithfully than others. Maybe the question is what makes a signal easy to transmit: consequences attached to it, repetition, status, incentives, emotional salience? That could help explain why some parts of a leader’s influence travel much farther than others.
"Culture is leadership at scale" - yes, I'll ask that to tie it into the 'so-called leadership' at the New York Times article link, posted above. What kind of culture is that leadership inspiring?
I think that we will most likely see that Apple has already started losing its "it" factor and that in 20 years we will identify this period as when Apple started its IBM like fall from leadership. Apple used to be product lead, focus on creating new awe inspiring products that even if consumers didn't know that needed, once they saw them, they wanted them. Now Apple is another company that has decided to focus on making its investors happy and has become a finance company, not a product company any more. I really wish that someone would write a piece on how PE firms destroy many more firms than they create. Not that PE is at play with Apple, but the change from product oriented to finance oriented, a PE staple, is. Cook was still a product oriented guy, the new leadership team does not appear to have that vision.
Hate Apple with a passion, won't be spending any of money on their products. They have great marketing but their are painful to deal with.
In 1998, I was a single parent raising two kids,with the guy who would be my second husband starting to show up. Not the meteoric rise of Tim Cook but it has been mostly happy.
Truthfully Bill with the state of things that we are finding ourselves in lately, I don’t really think it’s going to matter one whit about Apple or any of the currently large companies that are leading us by the nose today. Apple is well on the way to pricing themselves out of the market unless our present circumstances make a 180° turn around. The last I Phone I bought was $1,500 and change which is absurd but the last price I saw on their new folding I Phone will be $2,000. Unless these large companies change their ways of doing business, there will be no market large enough to support them.
Wow!! I’ve purchased Apple phones & other products but honestly have never spent more than around $600 tops. Most have been less. I don’t play games or need much
I wonder if the NYT will publish this? Bill, would you find this to add for your readers? "Exclusive: NYT sued by shareholders over biased Israel coverage." In this FP article it includes the fake news about an emaciated boy, along w/ more. I can't imagine the NYT publishing biased news against blacks or Hispanics like this. I will add that there is plenty of other fake news that is awful & deserves to be published & called out. Should not ignore any of it.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/exclusive-shareholders-sue-new-york-times-biased-israel-reporting?r=biua7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
& about the places to retire to, in our community a woman from Viet Nam has retired, joined one of the many groups we have; the writers group. She has been writing her story: In 1975, Cham Baird left her homeland, Vietnam, on a military aircraft empty-handed but for the clothes she wore. She arrived in America as a refugee with no money, no home, no future. All Cham knew was that she had escaped communism, and that somewhere, somehow, she would find safety and freedom. Over the decades that followed, Cham rebuilt a life from the ground up, piece by piece. She learned resilience not from books, but from living it day by day, just trying to survive, assimilate in this new life, and overcome challenges. Many beginnings, many starting overs. Between full-time work and night school, Cham earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and business. After almost two decades in corporate America, Cham traded a management position and took risks to pursue an independent lifestyle, becoming a business owner. In the first two years, she attended school to earn a master’s degree (MBA). Cham had loved, lost, and found love again, a companionship that brought steadiness and peace into her life. She has begun to heal and understand identity and belonging, shaping her into the person she is now.
After over two decades running her business, Cham retired and stepped into writing. Her story is one of resilience, healing, and transformation—shaped by the experiences that carried her from Vietnam to America, from a refugee with no voice to a woman who finally found hers. Cham writes to turn memory into strength, a voice through written words that she once had to leave behind.
Here you are again, trying to write your own newsletter in the comments section on the back of Bill’s newsletter with cut & paste of other people’s comments. Moreover, you are trying to tell Bill what he should write.
Go write your own newsletter in your own space.
& there you go again, seeing only one side of what I wrote, didn't see that I wrote all fake news needs to be reported on. And no comment about the woman writing her story after coming from Viet Nam. You should go write your own totally biased left-sided close-minded newsletter.
Shareholders have recourse to organize and vote out the Board of Directors or sell their shares. It kind-a depends on who's buying. I know a lot of folks who are still buying - perhaps to keep playing that word game (I've already read many commenters who love the games)? And guess what: Games, recipes, and product reviews are the revenue centers for the NYT.
I know from commenters on some liberal sites who proclaim NYTs as gospel truth & they'll totally dismiss this as fake news & keep on shelling out their $$ & read'n & putting in words of praise, 'oh, according to the NYT', or 'here's a link from the NYT'.
I’m not commenting on the content, even though it is Bari Weiss. I am commenting on the gall you display to co-opt Bill’s newsletter for your own purposes.
Go write your own newsletter in your own space.
“Culture is leadership at scale” made me wonder about the mechanism underneath it. Once an organization is too large for a leader to influence people directly, what actually carries that influence? What gets repeated, rewarded, tolerated, noticed? Maybe culture is partly the accumulation of those signals over time.
Well spoken. I think the influence of leadership diffuses into an organization. In a startup, it happens pretty quickly. In a big company, I don’t know. Now I’m wondering if percolation describes the process
Percolation is an interesting way to think about it. Especially because the influence probably doesn’t travel unchanged. It passes through layers of people, decisions and local norms along the way. Now I’m wondering what gets amplified, diluted or transformed as it moves.
I’m not an expert on this at all, but I had lots of experiences in different sized companies. I bet that there are some (not sure what the noun should be) things that bubble thru an organization unchanged, like desire to please the leader. Maybe whatever is associated with the survival instinct passes around easily?
That’s interesting. I’m not sure I’d call it survival instinct yet, but you’ve made me wonder why some signals travel through an organization much more faithfully than others. Maybe the question is what makes a signal easy to transmit: consequences attached to it, repetition, status, incentives, emotional salience? That could help explain why some parts of a leader’s influence travel much farther than others.
"Culture is leadership at scale" - yes, I'll ask that to tie it into the 'so-called leadership' at the New York Times article link, posted above. What kind of culture is that leadership inspiring?
I think that we will most likely see that Apple has already started losing its "it" factor and that in 20 years we will identify this period as when Apple started its IBM like fall from leadership. Apple used to be product lead, focus on creating new awe inspiring products that even if consumers didn't know that needed, once they saw them, they wanted them. Now Apple is another company that has decided to focus on making its investors happy and has become a finance company, not a product company any more. I really wish that someone would write a piece on how PE firms destroy many more firms than they create. Not that PE is at play with Apple, but the change from product oriented to finance oriented, a PE staple, is. Cook was still a product oriented guy, the new leadership team does not appear to have that vision.
Hate Apple with a passion, won't be spending any of money on their products. They have great marketing but their are painful to deal with.
In 1998, I was a single parent raising two kids,with the guy who would be my second husband starting to show up. Not the meteoric rise of Tim Cook but it has been mostly happy.
Don't remember the rest of the stories to comment
Truthfully Bill with the state of things that we are finding ourselves in lately, I don’t really think it’s going to matter one whit about Apple or any of the currently large companies that are leading us by the nose today. Apple is well on the way to pricing themselves out of the market unless our present circumstances make a 180° turn around. The last I Phone I bought was $1,500 and change which is absurd but the last price I saw on their new folding I Phone will be $2,000. Unless these large companies change their ways of doing business, there will be no market large enough to support them.
Wow!! I’ve purchased Apple phones & other products but honestly have never spent more than around $600 tops. Most have been less. I don’t play games or need much