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Midweek Motivator

The Midweek Motivator – Self Sabotage

Canadian born radio programmer George Johns is someone to be admired. He’s largely under-credited with format-crafting while with the former exemplary Fairbanks Radio Group, owners of legendary stations in Dallas, […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Priorities

More and more I hear conversations about aspirations; opportunities lost and found. It’s that kind of time. Where are you focusing your attention; a promotion, wealth, notoriety? So indulge me in […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Music Inaccuracy = Ratings Failure

A format that has long commanded significant revenue and high levels of female loyalty has been gradually “aging” its music catalog. Since cash-is-king what “works” is all that matters. But is it […]

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The Midweek Motivator 4 Levels of Competency

Scan your travel across time. Doing an informal search think about many of the people with whom you’ve coexisted; bosses, department heads, fellow team members and social colleagues. And as […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Ten Thousand Hours Revisited

Canadian behaviorist Malcolm Gladwell has written several compelling books on human behavior. In Outliers he focused on shared traits of the highly accomplished. The most intriguing of chapters “The Ten […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Chaos & Character

“Far off I hear the rolling roaring cheers: They come to me from many yesterdays, From record deeds that cross the fading years, And light the landscape with their brilliant plays, Great stars that […]

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The Midweek Motivator – What IS a Program Director?

Like the title, “Broadcasting” clings to archaic terms and titles. At a time when defining a position and modernizing its meaning seem critical we sleepwalk through history with little coruscating […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Is Your Position Contestable? The Sequel.

If you missed last week’s column we explored the proposition of “contestability” pointing out that if a competitor is branding using the opposite theme, your brand is probably viable. Last […]

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The Midweek Motivator – Is Your Position Contestable?

When doing competitive for our clients (and their opponents) we pay close attention to this question: “Is this position truly contestable?”  A focused point of differentiation beats the heck out […]

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The Midweek Motivator – A Higher Call

Four days before Christmas 1943 on his first mission, 21-year-old 2nd Lt. Charlie Brown was trying to nurse his badly shot-up B-17 back to safety. Half his crew lay wounded […]

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