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Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Sarah Barnett of SundanceTV, a…
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Here is a brief interview of Matthew Stewart by Arun Rath for National Public Radio. According to Stewart, the U.S. was not founded as a Christian nation. He discusses his book, Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic,…
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Josh Waitzkin Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2007) One man’s “inner journey” to achieve his own optimal performance It is important to keep in mind that the material in this book…
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In 1986, Ed Bradley and his team from CBS’s 60 Minutes visited Jonathan Winters in his Beverly Hills home and, at one point, were joined by Robin Williams. Here is a link to what happened. Manic comic moments, to be…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Gregory Hickok for The New York Times during which he discusses two myths that are old, another that is new. He explains why all of them need to be debunked. To…
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Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (Belfer Center Studies in International Security) Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, with Ali Wyne The MIT Press (2013) Unique and invaluable perspectives on global…
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I have just read and am now re-reading a book written by John Brooks (1920-1993), Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street, prior to reviewing it for various Amazon websites as well as my own. As…
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Linda Henman is one of those rare experts who can say she’s a coach, consultant, speaker, and author. For more than 30 years, she has worked with Fortune 500 Companies and small businesses that want to think strategically, grow dramatically,…
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In addition to book reviews, interviews, and commentaries, I also re-read several classics each calendar year. My perennials include Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone, Shakespeare’s four mature tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth), Ecclesiastes (Old Testament) and St. Paul’s…
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Malcolm Gladwell on “The Crooked Ladder: The criminal’s guide to upward mobility”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker during which he explains how Italian mobsters climbed up the so-called “social ladder” by way of crime. For black criminals, the story has changed.…
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