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What Were They Thinking? The Chevy Chase Show

There are bad ideas, and then there are ideas that should have been stopped in the parking lot before anyone walked into the meeting. The Chevy Chase Show falls squarely in that second category. By 1993, Chevy Chase was already sliding. The movie run that ...

What Were The Thinking? Fox Sports and The Flaming Puck

As a diehard New York Rangers fan, let me say this as clearly as possible: the glowing puck wasn’t innovation—it was panic dressed up as technology. This was the mid-90s, and National Hockey League executives and TV networks had an insecurity complex. ...

What Were They Thinking? Blockbuster Didn’t Hear Netflix Behind Them

There are business mistakes, and then there’s what Blockbuster did when Netflix started tapping a...

Your 401(k) Isn’t Broken—But It’s Probably Not As Good As You Think

Most plan sponsors I talk to don’t think their 401(k) plan is broken. Contributions are going in,...

What Were They Thinking? The Fiasco of the AAF

Spring football always sounds like a great idea—until someone has to actually fund it. The All...

The E.T. Video Game: What Were They Thinking?

Every once in a while, the entertainment industry produces something so misguided that decades late...

Survivor 50: More Than Just Another Season

I’ve been a fan of Survivor since day one. When the first season aired more than 25 years ago, no...

The Hidden Cost of Not Benchmarking

Benchmarking is often treated as a formality, something sponsors do to check a box. That mindset ov...

The Love of the Jerky Boys

I was on a conference call last week with a former co-worker I hadn’t spoken to in years. The con...

45 Years Later, Still A Miracle

My favorite sports memory as a kid will always be the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. I was seven ye...