What happened to the VC blogosphere? Seems to have kinda dissolved into the clubhouse conversations, podcasts, and aphorisms?
At one point I thought it would replace HBR as source of record on latest management/leadership thinking but it sort of derailed a bit.
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Seems to have been replaced by what I call “managerial explainerism.” An explainer-journalism style coverage of the corporate world in newsletters, roughly from the perspective of financial markets incentives and balance sheet analysis. Makes sense given financialization.
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Michael Porter 2.0 is some sort of linear combination of and
It’s not so much latest management thinking from the inside as seen by managers/leaders and academics who study it, but a kind of critical reviewing genre from the outside 🤔
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That’s now acquired a sort of second generation. I like and among newer additions to the newsletter-industrial complex. It’s certainly an improvement over both VC-blogosphere and HBR-verse. Plus a bunch of China watchers and sectoral types.
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The practice of management though, seems to have fallen into neglect. It’s a) a bunch of stale ideas being still recycled at HBR, b) solid but hard to acquire grapevine wisdom on practices at a few leading (from management practices POV) companies, c) consultant content marketing
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It's really what happened to an RSS powered decentralized internet, where folks didn't trade immediate page views for walled garden systems.
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A plurality have shifted their time to whining about cancel culture in private group chats.
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Happens to all content marketing. Quality loses to quantity loses to clickbait. Early-stage founders don't know enough to differentiate. And there's no first-mover advantage, so recycling works.
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