Drucker's "Four Pitfalls"
The news that Peter Drucker died on Friday inspired me to re-read a wonderful Q&A that Inc. published in the spring of 1996. In the interview, which was c... Read story
Mike Hofman
The Best Business Books of 2005
Everybody's favorite flesh-colored newspaper, the Financial Times, announced today its shortlist of the best business b... Read story
Bill Gates Speaks
Todd Bishop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an interesting Q&A with the world's richest man in today's paper. One thing that jumps out of the piece,... Read story
Your Opinion: Should Bush Fire Brown?
Michael Brown must be the most hated and mocked man in America right now. Earlier this afternoon, Brown's boss, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of... Read story
More on Hurricane Katrina
The situation in New Orleans seemed to take a turn for the worse on Tuesday as a crucial levee gave way resulting in dangerous flooding,Read story
The Truth About Gossip
An interesting story in the New York Times today assesses new rese... Read story
Does the Bell Toll for Dell?
For the first time in a long time, concerns about the vitality of the technology sector centered around the performance (or underperformance, that is) of ... Read story
An Entrepreneur We Love Lands a TV Gig
Warren Brown is ready for his close up. The Washington, D.C., entrepreneur--who left a secure government job to start a cake bakery called Cake Love--has ... Read story
What Makes a Factory "Decent"?
I recently saw a documentary called "A Decent Factory" . The film follows a delegation of managers and c... Read story
The Business Implications of Hurricanes
As Florida braces for the first hurricane of the precocious 2005 tropical storm season, I thought I'd pull out an a... Read story
Does Aid Hurt Africa's Entrepreneurs?
In an intriguing Q&A in the German magazine Der Spiegel, a young Kenyan economist makes the case that the steady flow of Western aid to Africa actually hu... Read story
The London Terrorist Attack
At noontime on the East Coast, the BBC is reporting that at least 33 people died in a series of four explosions in London during the morning rush hour the... Read story
What's Your Fire-Hire Back Policy?
The struggling Los Angeles Lakers Read story
World's Funniest Trade Association?
My vote would have to go to the Organic Trade Association. Surprised? Yes, I know, I used to think the Whole Foods crowd was mostly humor deprived--lots o... Read story
Connecticut Welcomes Back the Estate Tax!
Yup, the dreaded estate tax (which some rather alarmist folks have long preferred to call the death tax) is making a comeback in Connecticut, Read story
SF Entrepreneur Bolsters Stem Cell Initiative
Faced with opposition from the Bush administration, embryonic stem cell research remains hamstrung in this country even as advances are made elsewhere in ... Read story
Judging a legacy at the SEC
By now, you've surely seen Read story
Yet Another State Hikes its Minimum Wage
Tomorrow, Wisconsin will become the latest state to raise the minimum wag... Read story
In Defense of Chapter 7
Sensing that the system is being abused, Congress passed a bill in March to help creditors recover more debt from businesses that have filed bankruptcy. Read story
To Celebrate Today's Big Tax Deadline...
As you all should know by now, today is the day that S Corp 2004 tax filin... Read story
Martha's first post-prison blockbuster....
What a week for Martha Stewart. While Worldcom's Bernie Ebbers Read story
Snow, in New York, Sets Economic Priority
Treasury Secretary John Snow gave a press conference this morning on a trading floor of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, in midtown Manhattan. Flanked... Read story
Local election results of note
Robert Bennett, a former Inc. 500 CEO who now serves as a senator from Utah, was easily re-elected to another term yesterday. But in New Hampshire, first-... Read story
The Innovator's Next Bestseller?
Clayton M. Christensen strikes again. Read story
Alan Axelrod, Business Book Juggernaut
Alan Axelrod made Elizabeth I a star CEO. Now he's tackling ethics. Read story
Q & A with Michael Porter
Harvard professor and urban booster Michael Porter explains the vital role that growing companies play in the inner city. Read story
Darrell Issa Recalls...Gray Davis, Among Others
Having revolutionized California politics, Darrell Issa takes a few questions from us. Read story
A Strange Innovator
Turns out that those popular inflatable lawn decorations are from the shop that brought you that singing, wall-mounted bass, Read story
Women Entrepreneurs rock the vote
File this under 'You read it here first': Soccer Moms and Nascar Dads are out as the hot swing voter. Women entrepreneurs are in. So reports the Read story
Ho! Ho! Oh forget it.....
So I'm standing in a Starbucks on Sunday, waiting for my venti iced coffee to arrive. ... Read story
A VC brings luck to a struggling franchise
San Francisco 49ers great Ronnie Lott was celebrated during last night's Monday N... Read story
How do you solve a problem like Ramirez?
Prima donnas -- can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Or can you? The Boston Red Sox have placed star outfielder Manny Ramirez on ... Read story
A reason to root for the Marlins?
What's a baseball fan to think of the Florida Marlins ? The 11-year-old team is... Read story
The strike in Calif.
Interesting story in the LA Times o... Read story
Napster is back
So now the folks who own the rights to Napster are are bringin... Read story
Those Weren't the Days?
Clinton economist Joseph E. Stiglitz ponders his legacy. Read story
The 90-Day Difference
Why do some new managers succeed while others fail? It all depends on the first three months. Read story
blogging
Yes, I realize that there is something post-modern about blogging about blogging. But here goes. Matt Fogel wrote about businesses that use blogging as a ... Read story
More 9/11 thoughts
The Miami Herald had this interesting take on the ways different industries will ... Read story
Sept. 11th
The New York Times reported this week that the majority of federal support for busine... Read story
