Rule One: Don't follow the crowd.

I subscribe to Seth Godin's blog because he always has interesting content, and it's usually brief.

A few months ago he featured a quote from Andrew Carnegie that I saved:

"Take away my people but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory."

Is there one large consolidated radio company in America operating on this principle?

Seriously, if you know one please share with us in the Comments section below.

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