The 14th Special Libraries Symposium
The highlight of my time Monday at the 100th annual conference of the Special Libraries Association/SLA, in Washington, D.C. – besides meeting many interesting new people and reconnecting with friends
One Hundred Years of Drucker and SLA
It’s appropriate that this week I am at the 100th annual conference of the Special Libraries Association/SLA, in Washington, D.C., and also carrying around the galleys of my book, Living
When Art and Literature are Cut From the Same Cloth
I’ve been fascinated by Top 10, Top 40, Top 100 etc. lists since childhood, going back to local rock radio stations and their Top 40 lists, and the singles and
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On the Road Less Traveled to Education and Careers
Current, former or prospective students – and students of life in general — can learn a lot from A cheaper, smarter road to college, and career, a triple book review
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Jorge Luis Borges and Harvard: Encountering Your Younger Self
I have been a big fan of the Argentine short story writer/essayist/poet Jorge Luis Borges since his fiction was assigned by Professor Charles Larson for an undergraduate literature course in
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Edward de Bono in the Telegraph’s Culture Clinic
I’m always fascinated by the ability of British newspapers (and their websites) to come up with brief, clever columns based on Q&As. I’ve just discovered the Telegraph.co.uk’s Culture Clinic feature,
Nightly Business Report: 30 Years of TV Financial News
I’ve been a longtime viewer of the Nightly Business Report on PBS, which went on the air 30 years ago. In 1994, I visited the studio in Miami where it
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Finding and Losing Religion Online and in Print
Coverage of religion and spirituality has been downsized or eliminated by many newspapers in recent years. But there still is a lot of writing and reporting about these topics online,
Climbing (and Not Falling) With Jim Collins
Kevin Maney takes an interesting first-person angle in his Fortune profile My death-defying climb with Jim Collins. The latter is now promoting his new book How the Mighty Fall: And
ASTD Expo Wrapup
My second and final day at the ASTD International Conference & Exposition, in Washington, D.C. was a big success. I met more training and development professionals, and a number of