The rich make for great reading. Except, perhaps, during a recession.
Even as the global wealth-creation machine grinds to a halt, and rich become scorned and scarce, books highlighting the wealthy are stacking up fast.
It isn’t as bad as “Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market,” the ill-fated [...]

There has been a heated debate over suspending mark-to-market accounting rules that require a bank to report financial instruments on its balance sheet at the price they would fetch on an open market. But is the whole debate just a waste of time?
SEC Chairman Cox has power to change mark-to-market rules, but should he? (Getty [...]

Gentrification has no greater enemy than the gentry.

A Boston Globe Sunday Magazine article by Kris Frieswick describes the philanthropic efforts of Wendy Schmidt in Nantucket. Mrs. Schmidt, wife of Google CEO and billionaire Eric Schmidt, fell in love with Nantucket in 1998 and decided to spend their summers there. It was, she says, the island’s [...]

We are pleased to promote a new pair of business travel guides from our old friend Yintong Bester. Details, provided by the author, can be found below:

“China’s increasing impact and importance, attracting inward investment at the rate of more than US$1billion per week, has made it the world’s fastest growing and the fourth largest global [...]

The government today released its annual revisions to GDP data for the past three years. And among the changes is this turnabout: The economy contracted slightly in the fourth quarter of 2007.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis now says gross domestic product declined 0.2% in the final three months of the year. The previous estimate [...]

New parents walk around with question marks stapled to their forehead.  Breast or bottle, work or stay at home, home school or public school, and the list goes on and on.  New parents are full of these questions and it’s important that they find reliable sources of parenting information.
Where then do they turn?  Family is [...]

In February I wrote about scapegoating at work after noticing that the issue was coming up more and more with my coaching clients. It struck me that scapegoating had become a widespread and growing problem which was posing significant career implications for the victim.
What I hadn’t realised was just how endemic the [...]

A decade ago, I remember laughing out loud at Tom Peters’ Brand You 50, one of the first of a stream of books on how to develop your personal brand. I filed it in the ‘crazy management fads’ box, something that might work in the U.S. but would never be taken seriously in the rest [...]

When you’re stuck on a problem, it often helps to step back and look at the bigger picture. You see things differently and discover new solutions. What I ask participants in my Total Leadership program to do is take the “four-way view” – the interaction among work, home, community, and self – and come up [...]