The District of Columbia City Council has passed a resolution urging DC residents “to learn the practice of meditation.” This Washington Post story mentions that moves as well as other examples of how mindfulness is — ever so slowly — creeping into the nation’s capital.
Young women, says the Hartford Courant, are turning away from careers in business. They believe that “the world of business is boring and driven by greed.” And the trappings of wealth and prestige don’t move them. “What they want instead, they say in recent studies, is flexibility in their schedules and sufficient time for their
Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion says that traffic to Wikipedia exceeds traffic to The New York Times. Amazing. (My own take on Wikipedia, fwiw, is here.)
Factoids of the week: 1. As many as 20 percent of wives make more money than husbands, according to researchers at St. Louis University. 2. “This year, Google will sell $6.1 billion in ads, nearly double what it sold last year . . . That is more advertising than is sold by any newspaper chain,
A Whole New Mind continues to sell strongly, thanks to your great support. We just went back for an eighth printing and recently sewed up our 10th foreign rights deal. But this is no time for complacency. It’s time to start thinking about the paperback! For this version of the book, which will appear in
This month’s Yahoo! Finance Trend Desk column discusses one of my favorite topics: the abundance gap.
Today is National Boss’s Day. (I kid you not.) Lisa Haneberg’s nifty e-book makes a great gift.
Several months ago, my pal Seth Godin asked me if I’d like to contribute a short essay to a book he was assembling. I was leery, as all writers are when others ask them actually to write, but Seth persuaded me with two arguments. First, lots of great business thinkers — Tom Peters, Tom Kelley,
“According to a nifty piece of polling, directed by Bob Papper of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., and released last week, average Americans spend more time online, on the phone, punching the remote, the radio and the game console than they do sleeping – a total of nine hours a day.” (From yesterday’s NY
