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Feb082012
Danny Schechter - Is The Past The Future? The News Dissector Reports From and on Iran
February 8, 2012 Listen to The News Dissector weekly on Friday's at 1pm only on PRN.fm
The TV series House of Lies is about business but it could as easily be about government and foreign policy.
In a recent episode, one of the management consultants pitches a company about the need to launch a new product. She recounts the story of the Polaroid Company known as the Apple of its day, widely admired for the cool design of its instant cameras.
When I lived in Cambridge MA, Polaroid was one of the town’s biggest employers, an economic powerhouse.
But soon it was gone. It failed to see new competitive products on the horizon. It only saw the past as its future.
It went bankrupt.
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