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“As an industry changes, the smartest players go with the flow, dropping their historical ties to make a leap in the dark. If you were in the business of selling music via shiny silvery discs (having moved on from black vinyl discs), for example, you had a window of opportunity to make money packaging those tracks as little data files and selling those instead (see: Apple iTunes). Today, you probably want to be thinking more like Spotify, leasing songs on a streaming basis. But if you ignored those early warning signs about how music consumption was changing, you risked going the way of the dinosaurs -- hence Apple getting into the streaming business itself.

In a famous 1960 Harvard Business Review article, Theodore Levitt wrote about horse-buggy whip makers, suggesting that if they'd regarded themselves as suppliers to the personal-transport industry rather than focusing on their specific product, they would have had a Darwinistic chance of evolving. BP isn't really in the oil industry; it's in the providing-whatever-kind-of-energy-people-need-to-get-from-A-to-B business. Given the increased attention being paid to batteries as a way to store and transport energy from geographically dependent sources such as wave power, Tesla would put BP at the forefront of emerging technologies that are the modern-day equivalent of that Persian discovery in 1908.” -Mark Gilbert

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Former major leaguer Mark Gilbert approved as U.S. ambassador

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From Chicago to Auckland: Mark Gilbert is now a U.S. ambassador

- News is a surprise: During our session at the London Bloomberg offices, editor Mark Gilbert pressed the importance of realising that news has to be new. Before you write an article you have to question whether you're giving a new view point or piece of information, or just repeating the work of others.

- Not just about writing: Mark also discussed that to be successful as a journalist you must master a wide range of skills, from breaking news to in depth analysis to social media. A journalist in the 21st Century must be able to tackle everything, and often all at once.

- People skills: To succeed you must also have great communication skills to ensure you able to interact with your peers and prospective sources, especially when interviewing someone. If you can gain a person's trust, then you're much more likely to discover something hidden about them; even if they don't notice themselves.

- Silence is golden: People detest awkward silences, so the most powerful thing to do is "Shut the f**k up" in an interview. The best tool at your disposal is silence as the interviewee is most likely to fill the lull with something they never meant to say...