Last weekend I drove from Lubbock TX to my hometown Clovis. (Lubbock has the nearest airport.) Passing through Sudan TX on Highway 84, I noticed the above scene, so I had to stop and shoot a pic of it for you on the way back.  Who knows how long this sign/scene has been there.  Who …

Jan Miller is my literary agent.  She found me working at broadcast.com, put me with Gene Stone (my writing partner) and got me my first book deal (Love Is The Killer App).  She’s a super-agent, with a star studded stable of best selling authors, celebs and gurus.  For the last few months, I’ve worked with …

This week’s social media commentary will focus on the fine art of using the stream to aggregate and distribute collective wisdom. Raj Setty (@upbeatnow) is a pioneer in this area, as well as one of the top bloggers around.  Earlier this year, he conducted a very thoughtful experiment.  Using social media (Twitter, Facebook, his blog), …

Here’s another story from my childhood.  This experience deeply influenced my point of view and helped me to understand the power of family or media or culture.   When I was eight years old, one of my house chores was dusting. My nemesis was a green wicker horn of plenty, overflowing with sticky rubber fruit, …

Make a difference by getting involved in the relaunch! Between 2005 and mid-2008 I worked on a book about a business revolution that would impact marketing, leadership, management and strategy.  I call it the “responsibility revolution”, a change in how we buy products, apply our talents and invest our money.  My team and I conducted …

It’s very clear to me that consumer’s habits have changed, and will stay changed long after the economy recovers.  A March article in the NYT announced that conspicuous consumption was one of the recession’s casualties.  The ethos of showing off material wealth is dying faster than gas guzzlers, diamond crusted watches and McMansions.  It’s just …

Today, I’m playing around with my fave new Mac App (Peak LE).  It allows me to record audio, edit and deliver via my Mac with no external devices required.  Just a minute ago, I recorded today’s audio post for you.  The subject: How To Write A Book That Works. Often we think that books should …

Much of our emotional pain comes from an obsessive focus on lack, where our mind identifies with what we don’t have, what we want others to do for us and what others have.   As we hammer away at our mental shock absorbers with this thinking, we get closer and closer to depression.  When we …

I'm converting Twitter Tuesday into Social Media Tuesdays to account for Twitter plus blogs, Facebook, etc.  Given Twitter's up and down status, it wouldn't surprise me if a better service comes along over the next year or two. Who knows, it may be a higher quality spam free service worth paying for.  This week I …

Between 2005 and mid-2008 I worked on a book about a business revolution that would impact marketing, leadership, management and strategy.  I call it the “responsibility revolution”, a change in how we buy products, apply our talents and invest our money.  My team and I conducted interviews and dug through tens of thousands of pages …