Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson released the following statement after Congress’s passage of the financial rescue package.
By acting this week, Congress has proven that our Nation’s leaders are capable of coming together at a time of crisis, even at a critical stage of the political calendar, to do what is necessary to stabilize our financial system [...]

Two weeks ago, I took my dream golf trip to Bandon Dunes with 7 of my golf buddies. Here are my quick thoughts on my off-the-course experience and hopefully they will help you plan a Bandon Dunes golf trip:
Air Travel
The fastest way to get to Bandon is to fly into North Bend airport (OTH). [...]

What makes a company? Is it the product, brand and profits or the people, purpose and culture? When — and how — does a group become a company? And what happens if a company simply remains a group? Does it matter?
I have been asking these questions recently because I’ve been helping one such [...]

This item also appears in the April, 2008 issue of Harvard Business Review.
The internet is widely considered the most measurable of advertising media, but those easily tracked click-throughs and e-commerce sales don’t tell the whole story. Far from it. Internet advertising stimulates off-line sales, too — in most cases, our firm finds that online campaigns [...]

I work with companies on a variety of application domains for technology and analytics. One of the questions that often arises is, “Where should we start?” They want to know where they can get the greatest return on their efforts. Increasingly I want to tell them—perhaps a bit more diplomatically—the title of this post. Pricing, [...]

With YAGA (yet another Google article) out recently on the use of prediction markets at the company, I thought I’d comment on whether prediction markets are, as many would have it, the next big thing. The article notes that Google runs a variety of prediction markets to get a bottom-up reading on questions like how [...]

My editors asked me for a prediction post for 2008. I didn’t quite do that, but I think what follows covers a topic people will be thinking about a great deal in the coming year.
At the holiday season, I’m inclined to give most people and things the benefit of the doubt. Negative comments about information [...]

Is there anything sadder than watching a child face teasing from their classmates about a weight problem? Obese children face more than just teasing about their weight. There are a host of health problems that are associated with obesity in children. Parents would serve their children well if they confront this problem and work [...]

Lean Six Sigma Black Belts are most often referred to as Change Agents and there is no doubt that the Black Belt role is a leadership position within an organization. Black Belts are full-time Lean Six Sigma project team leaders responsible for implementing process improvement projects DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) or DFLSS (Design for Lean Six Sigma) [...]