I don’t know about  you, but I have pretty low regard for the motivational “industry” and all the “self help” gurus that purport to help you with maximizing and optimizing your self actualization. It’s mostly just a bunch of B.S. to me.
The likes of Tony Robbins and the best seller “The Secret” do not engender even [...]

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In their provocative and insightful new book, “The New Age of Innovation,” co-authors C.K Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan discuss how the business world is being transformed by three major trends: digitization, ubiquitous connectivity and globalization. The authors write that this transformation will “radically alter the very nature of the firm and how it creates value.”
The [...]

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No matter the news outlets you frequent these days, you cannot escape the constant drumbeat that the US healthcare situation is bad – and getting worse all the time. The nation’s healthcare crisis is one of the biggest stories in the media today, and a top-three issue in the presidential campaign (along with the sagging [...]

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Last November I wrote a post that questioned whether the PR industry/profession was adequately keeping pace with the rapid changes in digital media and communications. Entitled “Is PR Still Relevant?,” the post generated a lot of interest. Probably because it is a “relevant” and somewhat provocative question these days in the marketing and communications industry. [...]

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There has been much written lately about how Senator Barack Obama has mastered the web to build a powerful and effective fund raising machine. Obama recently announced that his campaign brought in $40 million in March alone, more than double the amount raised by Senator Clinton’s campaign that month. Some 1.3 million individual donors contributed [...]

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