Have you seen the ad for the new Visa Black Card? The spot aired at least twice during the Celtics-Lakers game on Christmas Day. It caught my attention because 1) I actually need a Visa card, and 2) after all the silver, gold, and platinum out there, a carbon graphite...
Is health care reform on the horizon? I posed this question last month to Business Week Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler in the context of business cost pressures and growing unemployment. Here's how I live tweeted his answer at the time: On health care, Adler wonders...
Whenever I talk about social media, I invariably get asked two questions: How do you find the time? [and] Is it worth it? I've been thinking about the question of time a lot since reading Marc Meyer's Let's Focus post earlier this month. He got me thinking...
Remember that old saying about doing the right thing because otherwise it would "go on your permanent record"? I don't know whether anyone other than TV dads gave that talk, or whether the threat of demerits kept someone from misbehaving. But it seems a good...
After the Detroit debacle of a couple of weeks ago in which all three Big 3 CEOs managed to distinguish themselves by being indistinguishable, there's been a strong public relations effort by Ford to reestablish its own identity and convince the public that it...
Are you on LinkedIn? It's a reasonable question, since a LinkedIn profile is rapidly becoming a "must have" element of every professional's online presence. While LinkedIn boasts over 30 million users, I'm constantly amazed when I meet business people who haven't...
It happened again this morning. I picked up two followers on Twitter whose sole purpose seems to be to get me to follow their constant stream of business promos and links to their Web sites. I don't think so. And then there were the four people whose questions...
"Many companies are held captive by their capabilities. That is, start the search for growth with what they do well. Instead of letting new strategies lead to innovative business models, their current business model dictates their strategic options." --Scott Anthony...
Did you ever wonder what it would be like if Barney Frank and Ben Stein agreed on something? It happened the other day when the two men concurred that it would be catastrophic for the U.S. economy if the Big 3 automakers were to fold. That was, of course,...
First there was a debate about LIONS (LinkedIn Open Networkers) on LinkedIn, and now there's dialogue about collecting followers on Twitter. Guy Kawasaki generated a huge conversation with his post last week on the topic. His advice ranged from tweeting top social...