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You ask. We deliver. Usually.

Published July 3rd, 2009

Several book groups — at companies, schools, and elsewhere — recently have asked if we have discussion guides for Bunko and AWNM.Now, just in time for your 4th of July barbecue, we do.We’ve put together a set of four 2-page discussion guides for both books. You can download them for free using the links below.

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Johnny Bunko at the Olive Garden

Published June 7th, 2009

Darden Restaurants CEO Clarence Otis, Jr., inadvertently offers a version of Bunko Lesson One to the New York Times:
“One of the guys I worked for very early on said: ‘As you think about career, it’s not about planning it. Things are too dynamic; there’s too much going on; there are too many things that’ll pop […]

Johnny Bunko Lesson One: Google it

Published May 19th, 2009

Johnny Bunko continues to be the unknown muse of 2009 commencement speakers. Here’s Google CEO Eric Schmidt echoing Bunko Lesson One:
“Don’t bother to have a plan at all. All that stuff about having a plan, throw that out.”

(HT: Drew Weilage, via Jeff Jarvis)

Obama at ASU: great stuff

Published May 16th, 2009

That President of ours sure can give a good speech. Check out this clip from this commencement address at Arizona State University.My hunch is that Johnny Bunko wasn’t on the desk of his speechwriters, but Obama nonetheless touches on several Bunko lessons — from “Leave an imprint” to “Make excellent mistakes” to Reader Lesson 7: […]

The power of second place

Published March 13th, 2009

Using the Great Johnny Bunko Challenge as his jumping off point, Jeremy Epstein has some interesting thoughts on “how to win by coming in 2d.”

We have a winner

Published January 16th, 2009

The polls have closed in The Great Johnny Bunko Challenge. And we now have winner.You have selected “Stay hungry” as the 7th Johnny Bunko Lesson. Congratulations to Becky Blanton of Danville, Virginia, who surged from behind in the last week to win a resounding victory. Her entry received 72 percent of the nearly 5000 […]

GJBC*: Polls are open!

Published December 19th, 2008

Voting has begun the Great Johnny Bunko Challenge – our groovy contest to find the 7th career lesson to accompany the six lessons Johnny learns in America’s first manga business book.Over at the Johnny Bunko site, you can see a list of 50 intriguing entries.  And on the home page, you can vote on which of the three finalists deserves a […]

Only two weeks left in the GJBC*

Published November 12th, 2008

Don’t forget: The deadline for entering the Great Johnny Bunko Challenge is November 26, 2008.

*Great Johnny Bunko Challenge 

Recession roundup

Published October 14th, 2008

Yesterday’s item on Jeremy Grantham’s hemispheric explanation for the credit crisis got tons of hits. So to feed a hungry public, let me serve a few other chewy tidbits I’ve collected from the economic meltdown:

Dallas Mavs owner Mark Cuban offers some keen thoughts about how to get rich — especially in times of economic uncertainty.

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Why are these people smiling?

Published October 6th, 2008

Because these seven Academy of Art University students, along with their professor Cameron Maddux, are some of the hundreds of folks around the world holding Bunko Breakfasts — small, informal gatherings to talk about the ideas in The Adventures of Johnny Bunko.  Find out more — and read about Bunko Breakfasts in San Francisco, Toronto, Columbus, and Sydney — on the Bunko […]

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