I'm going to let you in on a secret: as I write my new business book this summer, I'm going to post most of it here, in the raw, first draft form. If you've got thoughts or feel you can add to the story, please do. Either leave a comment [...]

“The fundamental problem with most businesses is that they're governed by mediocre ideas,” said Bill O’Brien, the former CEO of Hanover Insurance, quoted in the astonishing book, Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski and Flowers. O’Brien offers, as an example of a mediocre [...]

  I've been a morning person all my life and it turns out that's a good thing, according to sleep researcher Till Roenneberg, author of Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired. Reviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert in this week's New Yorker, the book reveals some very [...]