After Podcamp a couple of weeks ago, I was interviewed by Wade Roush for Xconomy on entrepreneurship, happiness, and coaching. Hope you enjoy the interview!
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Does email overload help us? You need to understand the costs and benefits.
Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just...
The key to ethical, sane behavior: the *little* voice.
Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about the need to give customers high-quality products while they happily substitute...
Groupthink, brainwashing, and politics (hopefully fixed)
This post kept appearing and reappearing in my RSS feed. I've deleted it and am re-creating it in the hopes that the strange behavior will stop happening. Fingers are crossed. Maybe you’ve been successfully brainwashed and just don’t know it. How would you? ... Find...
Giving just may be the path to success
In this Business Explained podcast, I talk with Bob Burg, co-author of The Go-Giver, a current best-selling business book that lays out the five principles of why Giving just may be the key to success. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast...
Is the Net changing the way YOU think? Sure has, me.
I just read this article in the Atlantic about how the Net has changed the way the article's author thinks. He's wondering what the larger, societal effects will be. Being The Atlantic, he's also savvy enough to realize there may be unintended good consequences that...
Corrupt research, even at Harvard
I just read this article in the New York times. Harvard Researchers who study child psychiatry have done research credited with vastly increasing the diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder. That increase comes with a pretty hefty boost to sales of prescription...
Groupthink, brainwashing, and politics: eek!
Maybe you’ve been successfully brainwashed and just don’t know it. How would you? …
Why do we feel so economically squeezed?
Last night I wandered into a bookstore by mistake and ended up sitting through a fascinating talk by economist Jared Bernstein. He was discussing the economic trends that have us feeling overworked, underpaid, and anything but upwardly mobile. Unlike most economists,...
Who’s surprised by compact car sales? Spotting trends. In advance.
The New York Times reported that sales of smaller compacts and subcompacts are on the rise, now that we're in a gas crunch. Industry analysts (who are young enough that they don't remember the 70s) are calling this "a first." I tried to tell a friend that we've had...