For the last few weeks, bloggers have been ripping one on the Peacock’s Olympic coverage. The blogosphere (no link provided) focuses on NBC’s greed (saving the good stuff until Prime Time) and coverage’s irrelevance since Yahoo or CNN is happy to tell us what happened in advance.  The drum beat, this time around, is as …

Much of my business advice involves the following: Show up!  If we can focus our attention on the others we are meeting with, much more can be accomplished. That’s why I like to turn my smart phone to non-vibrate silent when I’m having meetings.  I don’t want to know about the outside world, because it …

Last night I gave a talk to a group of donors about generosity.  The point of the talk was that giving is an area of excellence in our life, just like any other activity.   Some people are great givers, and others are sporadic to innapropriate.  It’s critical that we approach giving with a Good-2-Great …

At Net Minds, we are changing the way publishing makes books. (see my previous post on the startup I’ve cofounded.)  We are a networking service that partners authors with publishing talents to produce great books that are effectively promoted upon release.  After publishing four books through the antequaited traditional model, I realized that there had …

It’s time for me to spill the beans about a startup I’ve co-founded.   The company is called Net Minds, and we are a networking service that partners authors with all the talents they need to produce great books that are effectively promoted.  We believe the future of publishing is in groups, think joint ventures. …

Here’s a six pack of 2011 releases that represent the year’s best business books: The Master Switch: The Rise And Fall Of Information Empires by Timothy Wu.  This read is gripping as a biz-book like The Social Network was interesting as a movie.  Wu chronicles the rise of AT&T, it’s demise, then later monopolies leading …

After buying over 100 albums this year (mostly in CD format), I’m ready to reveal my top listens from 2011.  To qualify, the entire album must be good, not just a few songs.  I still love to listen to an album from beginning to end, instead of just grazing on singles via a playlist.  It’s …

Think of Thanksgiving as a platform to express, feel and share gratitude.  It’s easy, with all this Black Thursday Night and Black Friday talk, to think of Thanksgiving as a commercially made up holiday.  But it’s not.  It’s certainly at risk of being hijacked by the money changers, but still, it was created to observe …

All I can say about this week’s Penn State child sex scandal is that it’s really saddening.  So many victims and casualties this week.  A mighty institution and it’s revered leader are disgraced in internet time.  The above picture, of a smart mob, capturing raw JoPa, is just surreal.  Everywhere I go this week, people …

I could write a long post about the above chart.  But that picture is worth a thousand posts.  Instead, I direct you to an analysis of the Dutch Tulip Bubble and Crash.  Full a longer read, download Dutch Tulip Mania: The Social Politics Of A Financial Bubble. After you read it, ask yourself, should Facebook …