How do innovators and early adopters succeed in spreading new ideas, new tech, and even new seed corn? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell.READ»
The Internet’s got a cornucopia of tools for organizing the crap we find and want to bookmark online. Too many, really. We collect articles using Instapaper. We store pictures on Flickr. We favor tweets on Twitter. It’s like ...READ»
In these historic times, I wished to add perspective in the hopes of moving this important conversation in a productive direction. Malcolm Gladwell continues his march toward ignorance with his latest installment in the New Yorker about social media vs. social activism.READ»
...And other essential business questions. Jacob Burak, a successful venture capitalist who has become the Israeli Malcolm Gladwell, talks about the psychology of entrepreneurs, startups, and the Israeli tech scene.READ»
It's possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest. Aristotle had it exactly right 2000 years ago: "We are what we repeatedly do."READ»
Andreas Weigend knows how to influence people. As the former chief scientist at Amazon, Weigend helped implement a series of ingenious tools to help customers "make better decisions," from recommended purchases and one-click ...READ»
In case you spent your week "working," here's what you missed online: card-counting iPhones, Mac Mini spy-shots, Depression predictions, and two refreshing arguments against Malcolm Gladwell and intelligent design. Oh, and a sleep-walking dog, to keep things highbrow.READ»
I just got back from the American Society for Training & Development’s International Conference and Exhibition in San Diego where I was a speaker. This was a great conference – one of the best I’ve ever been to and I’ve ...READ»
Seth Godin’s promise to put 1,000 faces on the cover of his next book, Tribe, reminded me of two other crowd pleasers:
• the top-of-heads photo on Clay Shirky’s insightful book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing ...READ»
