Our next guest on Office Hours is none other than Tom Peters — the peripatetic and perspicacious co-author of In Search of Excellence and the man The Los Angeles Times called “the father of the post-modern corporation.” Join us on Monday, May 14 at 2pm, EDT, for what promises to be a terrific Office Hours […]
Later this month, Facebook is planning a ninety billion dollar IPO. Let’s write out that number so we glimpse its enormity: $90,000,000,000. Whoa. Chris Guilliebeau thinks Facebook is cool. But he urges the rest of us to concentrate on a smaller number: a hundred bucks. Let’s write out that one, too. $100. See? It’s a
Over the last few months, I’ve had the privilege of reading three truly outstanding books. None are about business or work per se — but all are amazing and worth your time. The first is Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in the Mumbai Undercity. Boo, a New Yorker writer, spent three years
It’s been awhile. But here — in response to astonishingly meager demand — is a new Travel Tip. (To be fully prepared, it’ll help to have seen this one.) PREVIOUS TIPS: Tip #1 — Never get sick again Tip #2 — The magic of earplugs Tip #3 — Four road food rules of thumb Tip
To write my previous books, I relied on tons of interviews, lots of traditional library and online research, and one kick-ass genie. For the next book, I’m adding a new technique: Quantitative survey research. In an effort to add some statistical meat to the book’s analytic bones, I’ve enlisted the wonderful folks at Qualtrics and
“As a result of the [tax] code’s growing complexity, Americans spent a total of 7.64 billion hours in 2010 negotiating tax-related paperwork—more than twice the working time of all the elementary school teachers in the U.S.” (Source: The Week, citing Reason.com)
Seth flags this short film about this amazing project. Watch it. Seriously. P.S. Seth also has some interesting thoughts on what this film tells us about the book industry.
Back in the old days, when an international team of Ph.D. social scientists and veteran graphic designers first conceived the idea of emotionally intelligent signage in a series of secret all-night meetings in my garage*, the term had a particular meaning. The idea was that signs could be more effective — that is, they were
Unless you’re a hermit in a cave somewhere (and if so, how are you reading this blog?), you’re probably in a position to influence someone in your circle – children, a significant other, your co-workers, your boss – several times a day. Lately I’ve been digging into this broad question of how of we move
Office Hours — our one-of-a-kind radio-ish program — continues its run of great guests on Friday when we host Jonah Lehrer, author of the just released Imagine: How Creativity Works. As many of you know, Jonah is a prolific writer on science and culture for Wired, The New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal. His
