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Deborah Kalb continues to do extraordinary, Herculean work on publishing her interviews with authors multiple times each week. The Q&As illuminate the creative process for authors in conceptualizing, researching, and …
Writing, Research, and Creativity Quotes from Deborah Kalb Book Q&As: 2nd Half of 2021 Read More »
I’m delighted to present this interview with the authors of the important new book Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). I …
3 Questions for Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein about Boxed Out of the NBA Read More »
“Marketing is the distinguishing, the unique function of Business.” – Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management, 1954 The eight books in ‘The Drucker Library,’ the new collection fromHarvard Business Review …
Examining Harvard Business Review Press’ New ‘Drucker Library’ Read More »
One of the few encouraging aspects of the pandemic era has been the steady release of new books. I’ve followed up my April 16 blog post about Deborah Kalb’s author …
32 Recent Quotes on Writing, Research, and Creativity from Deborah Kalb Book Q&As Read More »
Information professionals (including librarians, researchers, knowledge managers, archivists, curators, and more) have a complicated relationship with the related concepts of networking and self-promotion. Many are adept and confident about both …
Recently I led The Art of Professional Reinvention, a three-night online workshop for 40Plus of Greater Washington, which followed an in-person version of the workshop I led in February. I …
A Curated Book List For Career/Professional Reinvention Read More »
This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler, who died in 2016. His death was followed …
15 Thought Provoking Quotes From Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock Read More »
There are many differences between marketing a book, and, for instance, an automobile. But perhaps the biggest is that books have an author (or authors) who must be active in …
Reflections from the Berrett-Koehler 2018 Book Marketing Workshop Read More »
The 2018 SLA annual conference, held June 9-13 in Baltimore, urged everyone to “Bmore.” SLA provided many opportunities to do just that. There was a similar positive momentum to last …
More, More, More: Reflections on the SLA 2018 Baltimore Annual Conference Read More »
In my recent post “Peter Drucker and the Forward Focused Mindset,” I noted that Inevitability was one of the 10 Elements of the Future that I derived from Drucker’s life …
Peter Drucker and The Future That Has Already Happened Read More »