Sunday, June 22, 2008

Better late than...

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I just posted my first entry in nine months, so to offer "I've been busy" as an excuse for abandoning this blog seems a stretc...

In support of plain English

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Who knew there was a National Plain English Day? There is, in the UK at least, and last December, the Local Government Association celebrate...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Atlas Shrugged at 50

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Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand's great Objectivist novel, turns 50 this year. The NYT marked the event with a story by Harriet Rubin, who f...
Saturday, August 18, 2007

Envy as a genetic trait?

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UC Davis economist Gregory Clark bills his new book A Farewell to Alms (Princeton) as "a brief economic history of the world." It...
Monday, August 13, 2007

On ethics and Howard Gardner

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s+b published a great article on Howard Gardner , the Harvard prof and MacArthur genius grant winner, in its latest issue. The author, Law...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Making sense of marketing chaos

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I used to think that marketers, with their big budgets, lack of accountability, and scads of vendor goodies, had it made. But in recent year...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007

History of Kennedy Space Center

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I've been to Kennedy Space Center a couple of times as a tourist and most recently, on a press pass for a shuttle launch that got scrubb...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Jim Camp's Top 10 Deal Killers

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Publicist Cathy Lewis just sent out this neat short list of deal killers based on negotiation coach Jim Camp's excellent book, No: The O...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Publisher taps into wisdom of crowds

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I complained, a week or so ago, about the undue reliance of publishers on intuition to identify worthy book projects and now, Touchstone, an...
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Of widgets and whatchamacallits

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Thanks to Al Vogl, head editor over at The Conference Board Review , I got a quick, paid education in the naming business a couple of months...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The core curriculum of business, PGA style

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Got a kick out of this press release from Perdue University titled " A Bit of Golf Should be Par for the Course for College Grads ....
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Why can't publishers predict bestsellers?

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There's an article coming in the NYT's Sunday Business section on the vagaries of publishing , which reprises the usual "publi...

A business historian to remember

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Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. , who founded the field of business history, died on May 9 at the age of 88. His books included: "Strategy and ...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Getting smart about cases

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Not having an MBA, I've often wondered about the case method -- how it works and how it can be applied to solving real business problem...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Dell's memo says get your resume together

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I thought I'd be getting an interesting new corporate communique for my collection when I heard that a memo from Michael Dell to Dell...
Monday, April 30, 2007

Rand reprised

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One of the fun things about being an author is having your books pop up unexpectedly. My wife and I have always been interested in Ayn Rand...

Hunting cool online

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Marketers, especially the online variety, and anyone else chasing what's cool, will want to read the new Amacom book Coolhunting by MI...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Creative blurbing

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If you aren't already highly suspicious of the praise that adorns the dust jackets of most books, read the essay on creative blurbing b...
Friday, April 27, 2007

Smart or stupid, rich is better

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It turns out that rich people aren't any smarter than the rest of us, according to a study conducted by research scientist Jay Zagorsky ...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Quit whining, start selling

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I interviewed Martyn Lewis, the President and CEO of Market-Partners , a sales consultancy, the other day. Martyn's served as President ...