Topic: Richard Nixon

Playing Checkers: What the Meltdown Means For Store Brands

Is it checkmate on brand loyalty?READ»

Richard Nixon

Simultaneously his own harshest critic and biggest fan, Richard Nixon fulfilled his biggest dream and worst nightmare when he returned to politics in the late 1960s.READ»

FitzGerald Family Values

The oldest of 10 children, Maura FitzGerald has never been shy about saying what she thinks. And she's not about to change, even though she now runs a fast-growing company in an industry that's known for its "yes men" mentality. "It's ...READ»

Design Challenge of the Day: What Should Quarantine Look Like?

In the wake of swine flu and body scans, designers reimagine isolation.READ»

Big Shot Boomerangs

Politics. Athletics. Rock Roll. Boomerangers exist in every walk of life. Find out how, when, and why these celebrities decided to go back to the futureREAD»

Culture

Anne Having read each new newspaper story about the impending war with Iraq, I'm familiar with (and not entirely unsympathetic to) the Bush administration's rationale: We need to prevent Saddam from deploying biological and nuclear ...READ»

Rethinking Big on Madison Avenue

"I'm on the verge of being fired everyday," says Peter Kim. "If I'm not. I'm not doing my job. If I cease to push the envelope, I've failed."READ»

How the President Leads

Princeton professor Fred I. Greenstein has identified six qualities that play a big part in presidential job performance. Here's how leaders outside the political sphere can follow a chief-executive example.READ»

Jon Huntsman - A Plan for All Seasons

A plan for all seasons: Jon Huntsman Del Marth LUNC IS NOT Jon M. Huntsman's concept of maximizing time. He often skips it, preferring to work through the noon hour exploring opportunities in the free enterprise ...READ»

Ad Legend Dan Weiden on Authentic Branding

My reporting for the article Who Do You Love? led me to Dan Weiden, co-founder of Weiden + Kennedy, one of the world's largest independently owned ad agencies. From its base in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, W+K has launched ...READ»

Tony Soprano for President?

As FC's Danielle Sacks explored in this month's Fast Talk, much of the 2008 presidential campaign is being fought on the Web with the growth of online fund-raising, grassroots organizing, and viral video. This week's must-see clip ...READ»

Look Sharp; Aesthetics and Leadership

Has Presidential hopeful John Kerry used Botox? That's the hottest question on the campaign trail this week. And while his wife admits to having had a few touch-ups, Kerry's staff scoffs at the recent theory about the Massachusetts ...READ»

A Piece of Work

Three decades after the groundbreaking book Work in America, its authors tell us how things really turned out.READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 38

"We are nearing the end of tedious, dull and small politics."READ»

The Realist-Idealist Dilemma

Is President Bush a man of principle or pragmatism? So far, he has vacillated between the two. But leaders can't have it both ways.READ»

Act for Change, Even When You Don't Think You Can Make Change

Caution: This post contains overtly political material. Even businesses have to think about politics.   As a social change/peace/environmental activist for decades, I often engage in actions that I don't feel ...READ»

The Leading Edge - Obama wins Potomac Primaries

Say out loud, "Yes we can!" Then say out loud, "Ready on day one!" What do you notice? When you say, "Yes we can!" your mouth smiles at the end of that statement and the smile lasts beyond the ...READ»

Words Worth Fighting For

Weasel words and truth telling.READ»

All In A Days Work

The answer to greening business might just be working less.READ»

• The Top 8 Jobs of 2008

Destiny and the Job of the Leader

Joe Jaworski's leadership search began with Watergate and took him to Royal Dutch/Shell.READ»

Watchmen: Adapting a Masterpiece for the Movie Screen

How do you adapt a book that has been compared to Citizen Kane into a film? How do you honor a dense literary work while making it digestible to the mainstream public? The answer, I learned at a press event today, is carefully and ...READ»

Will D.C.'s New Egghead Culture Last?

If history is any guide, the Obama administration will not succeed at permanently removing anti-intellectualism from the national mindset. Sure, Obama's hired the best pickup hoops squad in White House history. But, ultimately, this group is a bunch of brainiacs. READ»

Entrepreneur Billionaire Shares His Ideas for a Green Future

Sam Wyly’s path from start-up entrepreneur to billionaire business and green-energy guru has been a long and winding one. He started University Computing Co. in 1963 after working for IBM and Honeywell, and went on to develop ...READ»

Strategy

"Those who out of cowardice use their wealth to pay Danegeld to the preachers of hate and destruction must be taught that this aggression will boomerang. A nuclear war stirred up against the 'infidels' might end up displacing Mecca ...READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 53

Fear, says John Ellis, is the new market psychographic. Get ready for economic changes that require a whole new logic.READ»