The year and the decade are coming to an end (three cheers for that!), which means that many people are now contemplating their New Year’s resolutions. If you’re among those folks, there’s one resolution I hope you’ll consider for your office: Radically revamping performance reviews. New Year’s resolutions and performance reviews actually have a lot […]
About a quarter of a century ago — when I was a young, impressionable Northwestern student wondering what I wanted to do with my life — I signed up for an upper-level seminar called “Writing Poetry.” It turned out that I was somewhat adept at deconstructing poems — and just plain awful at writing them.
FINAL UPDATE (12/28; 1:30pm, EST): Okay. We’re full — actually, more than full. Thanks for the great response! In the early evening of December 22, I announced that as a thank-you to the thousands of you who have pre-ordered Drive, I’d be offering a free New Year’s Day teleseminar for 500 people. The response has
“The U.S. government estimates that the cultivation and trafficking of illegal drugs directly employs 450,000 people in Mexico. Unknown numbers of people, possibly in the millions, are indirectly linked to the drug industry, which has revenues estimated to be as high as $25 billion a year, exceeded only by Mexico’s annual income from manufacturing and
To celebrate the arrival of 2010 and to thank the astonishing number of you who are pre-ordering Drive (the number of early orders already beats the monthly sales of AWNM‘s debut!), I am offering a free, exclusive New Year’s Day teleseminar. To participate, simply email the receipt for your Drive order to [email protected]. You’ll be
A software developer in California (I’ll call him Miles) wrote to me recently with a question about motivation. Instead of answering right away, I asked if I could pose his problem to all of you. Perhaps by combining our minds, we could be a free open source McKinsey & Company for motivation. So here’s Miles’s question
December brings not only Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and Festivus. The month also heralds even more luminous and transcendent arrival: A new edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States. The mainstream press likes to call this annual publication “Uncle Sam’s Almanac” — but within the tightly-bound world of factoid junkies, it’s known as “1,000
The inimitable Seth Godin has assembled a crew of five dozen thinkers and doers from around the world to tackle that question. In a remarkable collection of one-page essays, released today, each member of Godin’s dream team selects a single word — then uses it to offer guidance for the coming year. I especially liked
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that some bearish international investors have coined a new term for the countries that they believe are the weak links of the euro zone: PIIGS — which stands for Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. That follows on the heels of the oft-used term for the most important emerging markets
The official rollout for the new book is still a few weeks away—but for those who are interested, we’ve posted the Drive tour dates. As you’ll see, it’s a grueling schedule. So if you make it to any of these events, feel free bring me a cup of coffee, a can of Red Bull, or
