There’s an epic battle being waged on LinkedIn, of all places, between Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer and JetBlue chairman Joel Peterson, who also happens to teach at the same business school, interestingly enough. I’d be happy to referee a cage match if they like. Just throwing it out there. In[…] Read On
Charlie Sheen has HIV. Now there’s a news flash. And he’s been paying off all sorts of bimbos – I mean the women he has sex with – to keep quiet about it for years. But wait, there’s more. Ex-wife Denise Richards knew all along! OMG, no way! On a[…] Read On
It’s a good thing everyone’s so narcissistic and self-obsessed these day; it’s so much easier for me to blend in and appear normal. If you’re wondering what brought that up, I was checking out some of the negative reviews of my book. One reviewer called it, “A paean to himself.”[…] Read On
I just stabbed myself in the chest trying to cut through the military strength plastic that GlaxoSmithKline encases its over-the-counter version of Flonase in. Chainsaws and 9mm semi-automatic handguns I have no trouble with. Consumer packaging is another story (Don’t worry, I’m OK. “Just a flesh wound,” as Monty Python would[…] Read On
Yeah, I know; yet another GOP presidential debate. But here’s the thing. This one was different. This one was moderated by my brethren at Fox Business and the Wall Street Journal. The moderators focused solely on business and damn, they were good. They were so good that I somehow managed[…] Read On
While making the ritual triple-shot cappuccinos Sunday morning, I caught a story on TV about what really happened the night John Lennon was murdered 35 years ago. For all these years, Dr. Stephan Lynn – then head of emergency medicine at New York’s Roosevelt Hospital – claims to have been[…] Read On
My concern with the hype surrounding entrepreneurship and leadership, not to mention the extreme dilution of those auspicious terms, is a topic I’ve touched on many times but never really articulated the way I’m seeing it this morning. Let’s see if I can do it justice. Here’s the thing. I have[…] Read On