Here's an interesting article by Alex Mayyasi on the ways in which our brains apply human characteristics to the electronic devices in our lives. Based on research by cognitive scientists Dr. Clifford Nass of Stanford and [...]
(Continuing live-blogging my next book in progress, Branded to the Bone.) Imagine a business that has no purpose other than the “manufacture” of money. Such businesses do exist. Certain hedge funds employ small armies of [...]
(Continuing live-blogging the new book as I write it. Please remember this is a first draft, with lots of rewriting in its future.) The man who turned down Sumner Redstone’s invitation to talk. His name [...]
(Ongoing live-blogging my new book in progress.) When the billionaire entertainment mogul, Sumner Redstone, hung up the phone in Bungalow 8 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he was worried and he was pissed. Pissed, because [...]
(Ongoing live-blogging my new book in progress.) Ask anyone you know why the Blockbuster empire collapsed and they’ll tell you in one word: Netflix. Blockbuster, with its thousands of stores was a dinosaur that was [...]
Denise Yohn interviews me about what went wrong with the Nano. Why have they only sold about 250,000 when everyone was predicting (including us) that they could sell twice that every year? "Fast forward today, [...]
I came home from New York yesterday and found this waiting on my desk. None of us had any idea our publisher had sold the Korean rights. Can China be far behind? And is there [...]
(Continuing live blogging my next business book!) Companies like BlueBell and USAA make purpose easy to understand because it’s such a strong and clear purpose. Who wouldn’t be moved by thinking that your purpose is [...]
(Continuing live blogging my next business book!) Maybe it’s easier to grasp the purpose of a business when your job is to sell moments of joy and delight. What would it be like if your [...]
Recently, the Financial Times ran an article by the Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan about novelists and the other art forms to which they feel drawn. Norman Mailer felt he could be a good actor; Vladimir [...]