So I’m writing a thing over at TheFundamentals.biz and I came across this quote from Jeffrey Fox’s How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization: Nurture the good idea. Spend a little, not a … Continue Reading

David Ogilvy, who wrote the manual on modern advertising, put it like this: In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected … Continue Reading

Certified smart person Anne Kreamer argues in favor of improving your management skills by reading fiction: Over the past decade, academic researchers such as (Keith) Oatley and Raymond Mar from York University have gathered data indicating that fiction-reading activates neuronal … Continue Reading

Everyone has times of the day when they’re more productive than others. A really, really unscientific poll (see chart) conducted by management consultant Karen Leland found that individual productivity tends to be higher in the morning, but that enough people are … Continue Reading