In this sequel to their Amazon-bestseller, Bulletproof Problem Solving, Conn and McLean introduce a novel approach to strategic problem solving. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-Covid environment, while others are making panicky bets, including ?leap before you look? acquisitions. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work?there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to ?when change abates.? Most company planning processes are fantasy market conditions are changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. While everyone read and trusted the newspaper in the 1950s, few people turn to print media now as their main source of news.The world is changing faster and faster, with increasing uncertainty and threat of disruption in every business and nonprofit segment. While I don't imagine that this story is indicative of all newspapers, it does make you think about the tremendous change we have experienced as readers in just the last 50 years or so.
As time passes, Rachman shows us how the newspaper changes and how it stays the same, much to its detriment. We get snippets of the Ott family history and discover how and why Cyrus Ott founded this newspaper. There is also a lot to be found on these pages about the evolution of print media. Together, these vignettes give the readers an intimate view into the everyday workings of a newspaper and the complicated lives of the employees who work there.
Each chapter focuses on one person integral to the publication of the paper - Lloyd Burko, the Paris correspondent desperate for relevance and a relationship with his son Kathleen Solson, the editor-in-chief who discovers her husband is having an affair and contemplates one of her own Winston Cheung, the inexperienced Cairo stringer who worries that his job has already been taken by someone more experienced and Oliver Ott, the publisher who can never hope to fill the shoes of his grandfather who founded the newspaper.
The Imperfectionists, the debut novel from Tom Rachman, follows the staff of an English newspaper based in the city of Rome.
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