It was early Wednesday afternoon. I was reviewing the slides I planned to use for a two-hour session with a company in the Philippines later that afternoon. My last slide, the slide that would be the group's final memory of…

It’s November 22. Today 47 years ago I was sitting on the gym floor in high school physical education when a kid who’d been to the office told us President Kennedy had been shot and killed. <img style="margin:…

Google likes to play a little game with those of us who do business online.

The game is called “change all the rules and see who survives.” It’s often a fun and rewarding game for Google users, but…

VMware is software that provides a completely virtualized set of hardware to a guest operating system. It acts as a sort of quick-change artist that enables the user to create different testing environments. David Gerlenter put it very…

When individual philanthropists and institutional funders think about impact, they think about innovative approaches to problem-solving — a new method for mentoring teenage gang members, a unique research strategy for curing Parkinson's disease, or a groundbreaking way to foster entrepreneurship…

Rescue Time

Are you worried about what your employees are really doing during work hours? They look busy, but unless you look over their shoulder all day, they could be checking the latest fantasy sports stats, for all you know.…

During my career at NBC-TV I had the privilege of attending a three-day business retreat with one of our nation’s greatest leaders, Jack Welch. Naturally, I felt intimidated about speaking up in our breakout sessions thinking, “What can I possibly…