daily 11/09/2011

• Could Amazon’s Lending Library End in Court?

  • PW has learned that the overwhelming majority of publishers with titles featured in the program did not reach any agreement with the retailer
  • agency model
  • wholesale model.
  • each time a Prime user borrows a book, Amazon pays the publisher as if the book was bought.
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
    • Good job HMH

• Razing the Red Raiders | Barking Carnival

  • If you want your offensive line to be aggressive and physical you have got to achieve it through a marriage of scheme and preparation… the attitude must be present in both.
  • Running this play over and over again (and it’s companion plays) will help our offensive linemen transition from a unit that has been seen as a liability into the unit that is the heart of this team.”
  • I think the performance against Texas Tech was a huge game for this program. We are bearing witness to the full benefit of focused and skillful vision at the head of our offense.
  • Scheme, Execution, Attitude, and Team Culture are all intimately intertwined and our new coaching staff just flat out gets it.

• How We Know You (Might Be) Lying – Forbes

  • When pressed, liars will generally not provide more details, while truthful people will deny they are lying and provide more and more details of events to buttress their explanation.
  • Truthful people tend to look away when answering a difficult question because they are concentrating, while liars will look away only briefly if at all.
  • The reason is that a liar’s “cognitive load” is already high from manufacturing a story and trying to delivery it convincingly.
  • Asking that the person tell the story backwards (“Ok, let’s review your story again, but this time let’s rewind the tape and hear it the other way around”).

• 4 Networking Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making – Forbes

  • Meeting someone is just the first step in networking.

• Steve Jobs Had No Business Being Successful When He Returned to Apple – Forbes

  • “The Innovator’s Dilemma.”

• Steve Jobs Had No Business Being Successful When He Returned to Apple – Forbes

  • Jobs was certainly seen as a “visionary” but also a flake — and flaky visionaries don’t really tend to build great companies.
  • Jobs had a tendency to focus on things outside of work that would be “red flags” for most investors.  Later in life he became obsessed with the details of building his own private jet that improved on Larry Ellison’s.  He also spent a lot of time focused on Apple’s new corporate headquarters and insisted that no windows be allowed to open.  Most times, if I heard about a CEO like that, I would think the stock is a great short because he’s obviously taken his eye off the ball.
  • Bill Gates also comes across as very wise in the book. He thought the board was crazy to put Jobs back in charge.
  • One of Jobs’ greatest strengths that was clear to me in the book throughout his life is that Steve Jobs — with the exception of John Sculley — always was a great spotter of talent.
  • In Act III, he was still a prickly manager who overworked his people and ripped into them at times — sometimes for no obvious reason — but he was absolutely dead perfect on picking great markets to go after and picked appropriate prices that have only gotten more aggressive over time.  Music players, phones, tablets, and no TVs.  Jobs picked mass markets and revolutionized them.
  • Even though he kept his abrasive management style overall, he was absolutely right that the most important thing for an A player (in terms of talent) is that they work with other A players.  They will put up with a lot of garbage if they’re surrounded by amazing people who make them strive to be better.  Combine that with changing the world and it’s an unbeatable combination.
  •  It was as if he took every failure in his life to that point in his career at age 42 and perfectly learned from it.  That’s incredibly rare.

• Set your DVRs for tonight’s Roll Tide/War Eagle do

  Set your DVRs for tonight’s Roll Tide/War Eagle doc on ESPN (8 pm ET). Produced by @BFeldmanCBS and Joe Tessitore. Should be fantastic.

• Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

  Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.

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