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Laughing out of poverty
Great column in the New York Times by Manu Joseph on the fallacy of thinking that the poor in India need technology so they can improve their health or their education or the lives of [...]
Mental Health Moment: You can be a big wheel with Urbantrike
If you're young enough to have had a Big Wheel in your history, there's a great project on Kickstarter: Urbantrike, a Big Wheel for adults. What I like about it is it's a bike you [...]
Will cars get Smart?
Interesting post by George Black of the National Resources Defense Council on the idea of little cars like the Nano and the Smart for smarter urban transport, quoting me on why sales of the Nano [...]
What I did last summer
I feel like I need to post an essay on what I've been doing since my last post in July, other than putting on ten pounds and 30,000 air miles. Whatever it was, while it [...]
Everything I Know About Leadership I Learned From Training Dogs
This is a reprise of a blog post from 2005, featuring my long-time running buddy and office mate, Dodger (pictured below in 2005). I've had lots of requests to repost this and it's timely today, [...]
Purpose is not enough.
(The concluding segment of Branded to the Bone, Part 1. To start at the beginning, click HERE.) If only all we needed was purpose, what a sweet world this would be. But there’s a reason [...]
At TGI Friday’s, the party is the purpose
Here's the next segment of Branded to the Bone, my new business book in progress which I'm live blogging as the first draft is written. (Read it now and you'll find lots of things that [...]
Let my people go surfing. And flying, too.
The thrilling next segment in my ongoing live blogging of my book-in-progress, Branded to the Bone. There’s a sign in the headquarters of Patagonia Clothing in Ventura, California, that reads “Let my people go surfing.” [...]
Ben & Jerry’s Spiritual Business Flavor
Ben Cohen Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen gave an interview recently talking about the importance of having a spiritual side of a business. Not a spiritual side of the business people but [...]
On the Creation of Wealth and Building a Better World, Cont’d.
The next segment in the live blogging of my book in progress, Branded to the Bone. Want to catch up on what you've missed so far? The thread starts here. What if, instead of saying [...]
Why do we treat our computers as if they’re people?
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 [...]
On the Creation of Wealth and Building a Better World
(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 [...]
Blockbuster: The customer owns your purpose.
(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 [...]
Blockbuster: Losing the plot
(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 [...]
When Blockbuster Forgot What Business They Were In
(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 [...]