Sunday, September 27, 2009

Bread or bullets: MacArthur in Japan

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Jed Graham of Investor's Business Daily called last week to do a short interview about General Douglas MacArthur's role in the post...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Derailing healthcare reform

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It seems crystal clear that a country that ranks first in healthcare costs and 37th in overall health system performance urgently needs heal...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

The company town

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Having read Douglas Brinkley's centennial history of The Ford Motor Company, Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Centur...
Sunday, August 2, 2009

Speaking of pirates

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The movie studios complain bitterly about piracy, but it's hard to sympathize with them when you read a story like this one from Bloombe...
Monday, July 6, 2009

Posts for writers; Free is taken to task

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I've read a couple of blog posts in the past week or so that are worth considering if you're a writer: David Pogue, posting on the N...
Friday, July 3, 2009

The French are lovin' it

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It wasn't all that long ago that the French were up in arms that their nation was being invaded by McDonald's, the poster company fo...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Leading authors on notable books

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I've been helping to launch and edit a new book feature on the strategy+busi n ess website called Author's Choice. It's a neat ...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

When contracts aren't written in stone

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George Haley , a professor of marketing at the University of New Haven, was a very helpful source for a cover story I wrote about selling ...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Welcome to the next depression

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Richard Posner isn't afraid to use the "D" word. He says we're in a depression -- as defined by a steep decline in output...
Monday, June 8, 2009

The inscrutable ways of publishers

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I stumbled on Ved Mehta's Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker : The Invisible Art of Editing (Overlook, 1998) at a library book s...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

One question: Les Leopold

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Les Leopold's readable new book, The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Strategy when chaos is the new normal

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Marketing guru Philip Kotler and business strategist John Caslione say that battening down the hatches in a recession often does more harm...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

McIntyre's editing rules

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John McIntyre, director of the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun , an affiliate faculty member at Loyola College of Maryland, and a former pres...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Political risk and the fat tail

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Having a degree in poli sci, I've been especially interested in The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing ...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

Making sure marketing pays

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A lot of what I read about marketing sounds like a lot of baloney. I just can't figure out how a polo sponsorship or a billboard or a s...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Learning from heretics

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I didn't get a chance to post when the new, expanded edition of Art Kleiner's The Age of Heretics (Jossey-Bass), a very readable hi...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Mametian perspective

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Figuring it would cut the holiday saccharinity, I picked up David Mamet's meditation on the movie business, the essay collection Bambi v...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Five rules for successful leadership

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No matter what the economic climate, there are always plenty of leadership books in the business section of the bookstore. In fact, there ar...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

One question: Dan Carrison

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I was fascinated by the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List as a kid. In those pre -digital days, the Ten Most Wanted - do not approach, t...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

A criminogenic business world?

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I've been following Bernard Madoff's story in the New York Times and Reuters . They say that Madoff has admitted to a $50 billion...