Song of The Day: Changes - Artist: David Bowie

I’m sure many have read already that Mr. Jon Miller has been replaced by Randy Falco, effective today. Reflecting over my 10+ year tenure at AOL, and specifically over the last 4-to-5 years, I have mixed thoughts. The first 5 years was consumed by explosive growth and the last 5 consumed by implosive transition–with a little hope sprinkled in recently. :) Furthermore, many initiatives IMHO appeared “too little too late” to be truly disruptive in the marketplace.

Why? It is difficult to pinpoint any one challenge, but I read a good book one time titled Execution. The book exhorts companies to think more about their strategy and how to link it to their, day-to-day, operations. Perhaps Mr. Falco will look at this and improve it somehow.

History will have to be the ultimate judge. However, I think one has to give credit to Mr. Miller for sticking it out during a tremendously difficult transition. I wish him luck.

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