Why Failure’s a Better Teacher Than Success
(This essay first appeared in a different form in the August 2003 edition of Japan Entrepreneur Report)
Our business in life
April 2008 Archives
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Readers & Skimmers
A few months back, I sat beside an old friend at a formal dinner. Call her Penny. Penny and I
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What’s the Big Idea?
The nonfiction publishing world is ruled by the Big Idea: the concise, single-sentence statement of a book’s theme—and why it’s
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The Heroic Journey
In a powerful lecture entitled “Mythic Literature,” recorded in the 1960s, the noted scholar of world mythologies, Joseph Campbell, said:
Every
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Opting Out of the Deferred Life Plan
Which moves you: Drive or passion?
Once upon a time, a young Apple Computer attorney named Randy Komisar negotiated a deal
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Unleashing Ideas: A Four-Fold Approach
In my writing life, I’ve had to learn not only how to harness ideas and produce something from them when
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Fixing a Broken Work Model
Try as I might, I still spend too much time in front of the computer. I’m an Internet junkie. Even
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On Slowness
These days, slowness bears a number of negative connotations. Our modern world’s industrialism, globalization, and high-tech, high-speed information systems have made
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Billionaire Lessons in Prosperity-Building
Warren Buffett is now the world’s richest man, according to the latest Forbes ranking. Worth some $62 billion, Buffett displaced
