Many people don't know that Bostonian William Crapo (Billy) Durant founded General Motors, and if you ever go to the old General Motors...

Blame Robert Wodruff. In 1923 he became president of the Coca Cola company at the age of 33, four years after his father Ernest bought...

There is much talk about innovation -- and there are many approaches to creating new things, from the famous "open innovation" ideas of...

This post is co-authored with Chris Curran Information technology is the only part of the business which is both a line and a staff...

Did you ever have the experience of rereading something that you read a long time ago and say to yourself, "Wow -- this is so much better...

There are many books that I have read over the years that had a profound influence on me, and are almost unknown. I don't know exactly...

Starbucks has announced that they are fielding two applications, in test, that help users find their stores, explore the menu and...

There are a couple of key lessons every business can glean from the Netflix Prize. The first is that if you have a data driven problem it...

Last week, on Thursday night September 16, 2010, I had the good fortune of speaking to the Society for Information Management's (SIM's)...

Intuit just bought Mint.com for $170,000,000. Mint is a simple, web and phone based tool with a great design interface that helps people...

Well, the more I stare at this poster by Milton Glazer, created to announce his own work, the more I think of the phrase: the eternal...

I think the most underrated thinker of the 20th century may be Frederick Taylor. Ironically, Taylor's influence on people's day to day...

Google's new fastflip technology which has launched with three dozen publishers -- including Slate, Cosmopolitan and the New York Times...

One of my favorite business books of all times is The Control Revolution by James Beniger. It has been some time since I read it, but as...

I am enough of a utilitarian that when I think of tragedy -- like the sorrowful events of eight years ago -- I always ask: Did we learn...

Yesterday, my colleague Caroline Calkins and I were on the phone with Dr. Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic, and also helped...

The other day I received a downright inspirational email from my friends at IndieGoGo, a site dedicated to the collaborative funding of...

My friend, and Diamond Fellow, Dan Bricklin wrote a wonderful essay on July 7, 2009 called "New Modes of Interaction: Some implications...

There is an interesting experiment happening on the web - where Groupon.com is putting out one deal a day, in sixteen cities across the...

I think I'm an optimistic dystopian, because I have a much greater affinity for dystopian writers than utopian ones - but I believe we'll...