Saturday, March 31, 2007

A dip in the Panama Canal offers little relief

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Books like Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and A Game as Old As Empire (both from Berrett - Koehler ) offer a view of the actions and m...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

One question: Timothy Butler

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I didn't have a clue what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I didn't do much better as a so-called adult, stumbling around careerwise...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

What a racket!

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Publishers Weekly reported this nugget yesterday: In a deal inspired by current bestseller and Oprah phenomenon The Secret, Thomas Dunne h...
Monday, March 26, 2007

Flattery will get you nowhere

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A decade ago, Lynda Obst , the Hollywood producer, wrote a forgettable book with an unforgettable title -- Hello, He Lied -- which pretty ...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

The mark of a good agent

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I promised a post on how to identify a good business book agent a while back and have been avoiding it ever since. But, it's Sunday afte...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Nazi Germany, thru an economic lens

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Eight hundred-page books tend to threaten the already teetering structural integrity of my tower o' reading, so I try to avoid piling th...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Gardner on your mind

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I'm a fan of Howard Gardner, the Harvard psychologist whose theory of multiple intelligences won him a MacArthur genius grant and creat...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Puzzle pieces

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If you've wondered about the origin of the sudoku puzzles that have sprouted like weeds in newspapers and magazines everywhere, check ou...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Nice Pando

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I signed up for an account at Pando yesterday and in minutes, was set up to send a couple of 30-40 MB audio files recorded during a recent...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

What apologies?

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Friday afternoon was not a good time to be in the Cleveland airport and heading east. The NY flights were all cancelled. But I got lucky, th...
Thursday, March 15, 2007

The ties that bind

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Ran across a Newswise press release from the University of Washington Business School about an interesting concept called job embeddedness...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A look at nation-building

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The Rand Corp., the Santa Monica-headquartered think tank , publishes some amazing stuff, such as this recent and fascinating report titled...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Stickiness in action

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As I was reading Chip and Dan Heath's book, Made to Stick , I happened onto a great example of what they call 'stickiness.' Acc...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Another childhood hero bites the dust

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As a kid, I loved biographies and, though I don't remember why exactly, one of my favorite subjects was Thomas Alva Edison. Maybe it was...
Friday, March 9, 2007

One question: Richard C. Cook

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I heard Rick Cook, author of the new book, Challenger Revealed (Thunder's Mouth Press), speak at the Williamsburg Library last Friday. ...
Thursday, March 8, 2007

What's in it for you?

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I'm reading the advance proof of Annette Simmons' forthcoming book from Amacom , Whoever Tells The Best Story Wins , for Harvard Man...
Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Radio radio

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Richard Siklos at The New York Times didn't do the proposed merger of satellite radio players Sirius and XM any favors when he open...
Tuesday, March 6, 2007

One question: Steven Hiatt

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I posted on the release of Berrett - Koehler's new collection, A Game as Old as Empire, a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I've g...
Monday, March 5, 2007

Absolut marketing

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The Swedish government announced that it is getting out of the booze business , which means the third best-selling premium brand in the liq...
Sunday, March 4, 2007

Our town, version 2.000

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There is a passage in the profile of Orlando in this month's National Geographic that stopped me dead. T.D. Allman writes: All over O...