Topic: NL West Division

Bobble Mania: Malcolm Alexander

How Malcolm Alexander gets a-"head" in business.READ»

He Breeds Dodger Blue

Everybody's looking for talent -- this guy knows how to find it. Charlie Blaney, VP of minor league operations for the LA Dodgers, gives the inside pitch on free agency, the role of makeup, and the secrets to finding the last five national league rookiesREAD»

Can't We Change?

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

Baseball's Under-Thirty Executives

They may be young, but they're good. Four other members of the new cohort of MLB executives.READ»

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The Six Best Sports Insider Blogs

Sports blogs are among the most widely read, but most of them aren't worth reading. Here, Fast Company takes a look at the six best sports blogs written by those who actually live the sports life -- athletes, owners, managers, and front-office executives.READ»

Careers: Personal Branding and Work-Life Balance Part 2

I appreciate all the great responses to my post a few weeks ago on work-life balance. Here is the link to the Terrie Williams article I wrote about. Since a lot of us struggle with work-life balance, living the antithesis of the ...READ»

Surviving a Corporate Death

The fall of Peregrine Systems would be just one more tale of 1990s excess meeting a brutal comeuppance--except for its employees, who waged a remarkable fight to keep their company alive.READ»

Sports: Is A-Rod Worth $1 Billion? It Might Not Be As Crazy As It Sounds

Well, that didn't take long. When the New York Yankees were eliminated from the playoffs Monday night, the baseball season, for all intents and purposes, ended. Forget the battle between Arizona and Colorado, in an NLCS that ...READ»

Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell

You think the past five years were nuts? You ain't seen nothin' yet! It's only going to get weirder, tougher, and more turbulent. Which means that leadership will be more important than ever -- and more confusing (see rule #3).READ»

Design Thursday: Partying on at the National Design Awards

“First, I’d like to apologize for my attire, and its lack of festiveness,” Paul Simon, wearing a tasteful, but banker-like business suit, said to the largely black-clad crowd at last week’s National Design Awards. Simon was ...READ»

Work/Life: Stuck in the Elevator Shaft of Our Lives

  The latest YouTube sensation is a long-suppressed video from 1999, showing edited highlights of a man going slowly bonkers while being trapped in an elevator for nearly two days. At one point, the poor guy, ...READ»

News Flash From the Future: What Will Journalism Look Like?

With newspapers’ traditional business model in free fall, the top media minds at global design firm IDEO (designer of the Apple mouse, consultant to Fortune 500 companies) were asked to imagine: How will we get our news after the traditional model falls apart? Here's their answer.READ»

What's The ROI On That Skybox?

Bank of America's ticket inventory numbers in the hundreds of thousands, including seats in more than 80 suites for teams like the Boston Red Sox, the Dallas Cowboys, and the San Francisco Giants. Managing that inventory? That wasn't ...READ»

5 Rookies

Charlie Blaney, VP of Minor League Operations, shares the strengths of the Rookies of the Year from 1992-1996.READ»

Pathfinder

Try one of these little-known, off-road gems.READ»

Beane's Magic

Report from the past.READ»

Replace Ben Bernanke with Paul Volcker

At first blush, this idea may seem radical, but these are not ordinary times. What are the benefits if President Obama figuratively walks out to the pitcher’s mound, take the ball from Bernanke, and say, “Ben, you threw one hell of a game for eight innings. We can take it from here; the economy is heating up.” Then, Obama turn towards the bullpen forms his hand into the shape of a clam, opens, and closes it twice, to signal for his major league inflation closer – Paul Volcker.READ»

Replace Ben Bernanke with Paul Volcker

At first blush, this idea may seem radical, but these are not ordinary times. What are the benefits if President Obama figuratively walks out to the pitcher’s mound, take the ball from Bernanke, and say, “Ben, you threw one hell of a game for eight innings. We can take it from here; the economy is heating up.” Then, Obama turn towards the bullpen forms his hand into the shape of a clam, opens, and closes it twice, to signal for his major league inflation closer – Paul Volcker.READ»

Take Me Out of the Ballgame

An 86-year-old cantankerous man's worst fear is realized when he goes to his first Major League Baseball game and gets hit by a foul ball, but insurance obtained from a California Health Insurance agent softened the blow.READ»

How To Play Beane Ball

The Oakland A's Billy Beane has perfected the new rules for winning at baseball -- on the field and in the books. Some say that he's a genius who has mastered the future of the game. He says that doing more with less just means playing by the numbers.READ»

Leadership: Lessons from the Hammer

The Babe had it easy, at least when it came to setting the all-time home run record. When he broke Roger Connor’s record of 139 homers in 1921, it caused barely a ripple of attention. Fifty-three years later, when Henry Aaron was ...READ»

Birth of a (Free-Agent) Nation

A conversation with baseball's first free agent.READ»

High Profile Sports Patients of Dr. James Andrew

The good doctor has treated dozens of sports champions, record winners and star athletes. Here we present a few key cases of his careerREAD»

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Fast Talk: Wising Up the Idiot Box

If you think the changes in TV in the past five years--TiVo, digital cable and satellite, and video on demand--are radical, you haven't seen anything.READ»

Beyond the City Limits

The founders of Vigilante, a fast-growing ad agency, aim to understand the realities of urban life -- the people who live there and the ideas that originate there.READ»