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The Businessman Vs. the State

Scott Holleran — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:14:18 +0000

Today is the perfect day for an individual, and most properly a businessman, to refuse to submit to a tyrannical government, especially ours in America here and now. I’ll tell you why in a minute but first let me praise former General Electric (GE) Chairman and CEO Jack Welch for writing in his op-ed in [...]

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Is Time Warner Ditching Batman?

Scott Holleran — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:59:50 +0000

Judging by the movie studio’s response to the mass murder at a Colorado movie theater where The Dark Knight Rises was playing, I anticipate some serious changes in the way movies are made, consumed and distributed. That the mass murderer assaulted innocents during an exhibition of a work of art could have a ripple effect [...]

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Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., 1919-2011

Scott Holleran — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:46:57 +0000

“If you can put a number on it, then you know something,” the late Arthur C. Nielsen Jr., who died earlier this month, reportedly said his father once told him. If you use or refer to metrics, analytics and box office statistics, you are cashing in on Mr. Nielsen’s work, because he was president and [...]

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Cars: Mazda Quits Making Rotary Engine

Scott Holleran — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:31:58 +0000

“Mazda to stop making rotary-engine vehicles,” read the Associated Press headline. After 45 years of making the engine that powered the first and only Japanese car to win the 24-hour Le Mans endurance race, Mazda Motor Corporation, the only automaker in the world to manufacture rotary engine vehicles, recently announced that production of the rotary [...]

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Books: How to Win Friends & Influence People in the Digital Age

Scott Holleran — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:26:27 +0000

On the 75th anniversary of a concise business book that’s sold more than 30 million copies, the New York-based Dale Carnegie and Associates has produced an updated version of Dale Carnegie’s book, How to Win Friends & Influence People, (Simon and Schuster, October 2011, $26/$13 on iBooks), which adds the phrase in the Digital Age [...]

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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

Scott Holleran — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:02:18 +0000

One of America’s greatest businessmen died today. Apple founder and Chairman of the Board Steve Jobs was in his prime, and he went out on top of the world, exiting gracefully if prematurely due to pancreatic cancer amid a chorus of passionate expressions of love and admiration for his breathtaking achievements in business, technology, and [...]

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Disney/Pixar to Re-release Classics in Theaters

Scott Holleran — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:27:46 +0000

With its successful re-release of The Lion King in the three dimensional (3D) format (it’s near the $80 million mark in U.S. box office receipts, according to the Walt Disney Studios), Disney announced today that the Burbank, Calif.-based company will release limited theatrical engagements for four of its classic films for the first time in [...]

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Why I Like Apple’s Logo

Scott Holleran — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:57:25 +0000

As we near the end of what’s left of capitalist America, with impending monetary collapse caused by government-controlled economics, Apple’s logo—a symbol of the greedy and passionate pursuit of knowledge—remains America’s most powerful symbol of capitalism. To me (and it is just me because the designer denies it), the logo represents the apple from the [...]

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Death of a Toymaker

Scott Holleran — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:02:15 +0000

Today, as the nation reels from an historic debate about its astronomical debt, it seems proper to note that Hot Wheels creator Elliot Handler died this month. He was 95. If you’ve never heard of him, and I did not know his name until I read his obituary, you’ve very likely heard of what he [...]

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Closing Borders

Scott Holleran — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:55:01 +0000

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved bookstores. I remember discovering The Virtue of Selfishness at the Wilmette Book Shop where I grew up and asking the store’s owner, Mrs. Burmeister, a former Broadway dancer married to a businessman who was the town’s mayor, what she thought the title meant. She told me, I [...]

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