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Michiko Kakutani Is Destroying The Fabric Of American Culture

Which brings me conveniently to the Full Bruni which occurred from July to September just past. Turns out if you really want to get reviewed by the Times, it really helps if you are also employed by the Times. It began quietly enough on July 19, when the Times's Magazine ran a much-promoted 7500 word piece by Frank Bruni (who was shifting from Food Editor to Magazine Contributor), "I Was A Baby Bulimic." Wow! A shocking personal disgusting confession.READ»

Ivan Glickman

Tom Friedman's Ideas for Stimulating Innovation are Wrong

In an op-ed post in Sunday's New York Times, Tom Friedman rightly says we need to quit bailing out the losers and start dedicating resources to the innovators. However, he jumps the track when he says money should be given to venture ...READ»

Art Basel Miami: Has Art Basel Lost its Cool?

Staring at the big, sparkly Tom Friedman painting, "Glitterbattle," in the Gagosian booth, the woman in the red flowered house dress, yellow socks, and black sneakers, was inspired. So was her companion, dressed in khaki shorts, an ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Pop!Tech Pop!Casts free for all

Last year’s PopTech! Conference featured an astounding line-up of great speakers: Tom Friedman, Brian Eno, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Barnett, and Juan Enriquez among them. All that cranium-cramming stuff was deliciously leavened with ...READ»

PR Smackdown: You Pick the Winner

I received three intriguing PR pitches yesterday. You pick the winner: Contestant #1: UPS delivers a copy of Thomas Friedman's new book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century." The book is mounted in a ...READ»

ECONOMY   |  2 comments

An Inconvenient Economy

On Friday, the price of oil jumped a record $10.75 per barrel, to more than $138, immediately sending the dollar into a freefall and causing the Dow Jones to ask for a sick-day. Meanwhile, unemployment rose at a record-setting pace ...READ»

Drought in China

China Tries Command-and-Control To Save Water, End Drought

Commenters like Tom Friedman and James Fallows have suggested that China's command-and-control government and history of dramatic social change (Great Leap Forward, anyone?) actually offers a better approach, compared to the ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Lessons in Transparency: Part 2

Seeing is believing. And unless changes you commit to are observable to you and the stakeholders who have a stake in your improving as a leader, they are no more than good intentionsREAD»

Creative-Class Struggle

A Web-exclusive Q & A with Richard Florida, author of The Flight of the Creative ClassREAD»