Re:Zuckerberg had a Nixon moment tonight.
by bootload on Thursday June 03, 2010 @03:07AM
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"... Zuckerberg had a Nixon moment tonight. People at conference are talking about the most insane meltdown ever. ..."
The moment being referred to here is the Presidential debate, "26 September 1960... at the CBS broadcast facility in downtown Chicago" between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
Nixon made a tactical error in appearing on TV that night, by not following the advice of make-up artists and following the lead of Kennedy who looked good on television. The result? Nixon had a 9 o'clock shadow and shifty.
So really the mistake made by Zuckerberg as a leader is one of perception, not necessarily a mistake of substance.
"... “I recognized the basic mistake I had made,” Nixon would write in 6 Crises. “I had concentrated too much on substance and not enough on appearance. I should have remembered that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ ” ..."
The moment being referred to here is the Presidential debate, "26 September 1960... at the CBS broadcast facility in downtown Chicago" between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
Nixon made a tactical error in appearing on TV that night, by not following the advice of make-up artists and following the lead of Kennedy who looked good on television. The result? Nixon had a 9 o'clock shadow and shifty.
So really the mistake made by Zuckerberg as a leader is one of perception, not necessarily a mistake of substance.
"... “I recognized the basic mistake I had made,” Nixon would write in 6 Crises. “I had concentrated too much on substance and not enough on appearance. I should have remembered that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ ” ..."
You can read more of the debate here, "Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV, The First Presidential Debate" ~ http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14104-8/presidential-...