Office Hours

Office Hours — our super-cool, call-in, radio-ish program — has been on hiatus for a few months. But we’re coming back with a great show to kick off our 2013 season. On Friday April 12, 2013 at 2:30pm EDT, I’ll be talking with Chip Heath and Dan Heath, authors of blockbuster books, Made to Stick, […]

Happiness. It’s what we all want, right?  But what does it look like? How do we find it?  And is the joy in the pursuit or in the realization? For answers to these and other questions, tune in to Office Hours tomorrow (Friday, 12 October 2012), when our guest will be Gretchen Rubin, author of […]

That’s the question at the center of a fascinating new book by New York Times Magazine and This American Life contributor Paul Tough. It’s called How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (Buy it at Amazon, BN.com, or IndieBound). And Tough will be talking about it, and taking your questions, on […]

Duke University professor of behavioral economics Dan Ariely has already schooled us on irrationality. Now he’s back to educate us on — no lie — dishonesty. Join us Friday, June 29, at 1pm EDT for the next episode of Office Hours, when we’ll be talking to Ariely (that’s him to your right, sipping wine) about his […]

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 […]

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 […]

Earlier this month, we hosted Harvey Mackay on Office Hours. Last week, I received a thank-you note that was memorable — and in its own Godinesque way, remarkable. You can read all five pages here, but the image below should give you the gist. Some of you might not dig this particular approach. But it’s […]

If you have any interest in picking the brain of one of the top management thinkers of our times — and thereby cadge thousands of bucks in free consulting — tune in to Office Hours today at 2pm, EST. Our guest will be Gary Hamel. He’s the originator (with CK Prahalad) of the idea of […]

Good news, folks. Office Hours is back for a new season! The madness begins this Friday, January 27, at 11am, EST, when our guest will be Susan Cain, author of the hot new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. (That’s her on the right.) For those of you […]

Our next guest on Office Hours will be Jim Collins, author of the legendary book Good to Great and co-author of the just released Great by Choice. (Buy it on BN.com, IndieBound, or Amazon.) Join us Tuesday November 8 at 11am, EST, for what promises to be a terrific conversation. What’s Office Hours? We call it “Car Talk . . . […]