Comments on: The Long Tail, Your Brand, Your Career : Don’t Get Whipped By The Long Tail http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/ an edited assortment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:20:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Long Tail Career Survival Tip #2 : Be Like Siddhartha « Meme Menagerie http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2511 Mon, 12 May 2008 22:33:28 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2511 [...] The Long Tail, Your Brand, Your Career : Don’t Get Whipped By The Long Tail  a “bird’s eye” view of the long tail in motion, and what it means for your [...]

]]> By: Long Tail Survival Tip #1 : Strong Communication Skills « Meme Menagerie http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2389 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:24:11 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2389 [...] So Dan, why are you talking about Communication Skills, and what does that have to do with your earlier blog post, ‘Don’t Get Whipped By The Long Tail?’ [...]

]]> By: Benzo http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2375 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:38:31 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2375 the MTV generation is being replaced with yet another crazier generation. one that is apathetic. doesn’t like to work. Has been around the world at the age of 12. very jaded.

the ideological shift will happen… it’s a question of when and which way!

Dan: we will start charging you while we’re still in the early part of the tail.

]]> By: smg http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2374 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:50:38 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2374 Benzo – I absolutely agree with your comment about an ideological shift, but I think that this also has to be understood by shareholders and wall st. I think that since the advent of the MTV generation with its short attention spans, people are conditioned to try to make a quick buck vs long term profit. Patience is a virtue.

]]> By: danspira http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2373 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:21:15 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2373 this is brilliant. i’ve got 66.7% of my blog’s readership talking to each other. thanks mates!

]]> By: Benzo http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2372 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:02:27 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2372 i think part of the fascination with growth (actually, rapid growth) comes from a cultural point of view.

psychologically, it’s more satisfying to see short term performance v/s long term performance. It is hard to cope with the idea that short term overperformance could lead to long term underperformance.

unfortunately, publicly at least, short-term steady performance is punished by the market.

Smg: i have heard countless stories along the ones you told. Both from owner perspective and employee perspective. I am more and more convinced there needs to be some idealogical shift by companies at some point.

]]> By: smg http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2371 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:13:49 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2371 I’ve worked in 2 companies now where both growth seems to equal success. Both these companies were looking to grow both their customer base (to make more money) but also the size of the company in terms of manpower. What was interesting in the first place was that they thought the market could keep expanding, which it did until it hit a bubble in 2001 and lo and behold, instant shrinkage, leaving the only option of layoffs. The current company is growing similarly, however they are facing a different problem, where internally the infrastructure growth is not being allowed to keep up with the extra manpower being brought in. Something will no doubt fail dramatically here too.
I don’t consider either of these scenarios successful.

]]> By: danspira http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2368 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:03:08 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2368 those are some great distinctions, thanks.

maybe i should replace the word “success” with another term i’ve been hearing a lot of lately, which is “exceptional performance.”

or “sustainable success??”

]]> By: Benzo http://danspira.com/2008/02/04/the-long-tail-your-brand-your-career-dont-get-whipped-by-the-long-tail/#comment-2367 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:35:04 +0000 http://danspira.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-2367 “When it comes to career success, your knowledge and skills are only 20% of what matters. Your attitude, on the other hand, accounts for 80%.”

attitude is part of the definition of success. i don’t think success is a measurable tangible. it’s an abstract concept closely related to expectations and (self)attitude.

that’s my biggest problem with Godin’s “the dip”. he assumes a business definition of success where success = being #1. success = growth. success = more. (altho, in all fairness, Godin does make a point to specify a very loose definition of “being #1″…)

we live in business times where there’s a strong fascination with growth. especially rapid growth. if you make $5, you look for ways to make $6, then $10, then $20.. it never stops. I think it has to do with our generation who wants to achieve too much too fast.

i’m not sure this attitude is sustainable.

and if the coming generations are any indication, it’s not gonna last long either.

more later!

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