“According to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, ‘infectious greed’ is to blame for the scandals engulfing firms like Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing… In fact, the opposite is true. Fraud undercuts a company’s value — as the market is amply demonstrating. What money-making requires is honesty and integrity. And the ‘greedier’ a businessman is, the more committed he must be to scrupulous practices.”

“Are you wondering whether you can make it on your own as a consultant? The answer is ‘yes.’ The start-up road is rocky, and you may have to complement your business knowledge by reading or re-reading ‘Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People’ a couple of times, but most consulting businesses do well if they survive the start-up period.”

“In addition to being a starter of famous and failed companies, an icon of the dot-boom era and probably a creative genius, Bill Gross is an extraordinarily fast talker. This trait is hard to miss in an hour-long conversation with the founder of Idealab, the firm credited with popularizing the incubator as a model for launching startup companies.”

“Are you wondering whether you can make it on your own as a consultant? The answer is ‘yes.’ The start-up road is rocky, and you may have to complement your business knowledge by reading or re-reading ‘Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends And Influence People’ a couple of times, but most consulting businesses do well if they survive the start-up period.”

“There was a time, for instance, when companies put their most valued employees in palatial offices, with potted plants in the corner, and secretaries out front, guarding access. Those offices were suburbs — gated communities, in fact — and many companies came to realize that if their best employees were isolated in suburbs they would be deprived of public acquaintanceship, the foundations of public trust, and cross-connections with the necessary people. In the eighties and early nineties, the fashion in corporate America was to follow what designers called ‘universal planning’ — rows of identical cubicles, which resembled nothing so much as a Levittown. Today, universal planning has fallen out of favor, for the same reason that the postwar suburbs like Levittown did: to thrive, an office space must have a diversity of uses — it must have the workplace equivalent of houses and apartments and shops and industry.”

“Can you give an effective presentation? A good presentation goes beyond knowing your subject matter inside and out. Of course it’s important to fully understand your topic of discussion — but if you cannot successfully convey that information to another person, then what does it matter? How successful are your presentations?”

“Long publicity shy, Wal-Mart opens its doors for an exclusive CIO interview with CIO Kevin Turner, who shares the secrets behind Wal-Mart’s global growth, what’s happened since Sept. 11 and which technologies the retailer is eyeing for the future.”

“The Internet’s largest collection of corporate memos and internal communication.” (Launching August, 2002)

“These are not the best of times for MBAs. A big blow will land with the September issue of Academy of Management Learning and Education, in which management scholar Jeffrey Pfeffer, of Stanford, no less, examines 40 years of research and concludes there is scant evidence those with an MBA better their careers or fortunes.”

“All of us are familiar, as individual consumers, with companies (and their leaders) who profited handsomely by arranging the purchase of their products by other, larger entities — even though their products and services were ill designed or badly supported, sometimes even to the point of being, as a practical matter, useless.”

“Discussions to this point have focused on weblog technology, the weblog community, and how weblogs can be used for personal communications. This chapter explores another powerful way in which blogs can be used: in a business environment. There is great potential for business weblog use, from project-based team weblogs to the constant churn of content through a weblog on a corporate site.” (This is chapter eight of We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs)

“From CEOExpress’s Executive Conversation Center. Over 1,000 business executives participated in our web interview.- Executives from small, medium and large companies were fairly equally represented… Executives are seeing the need to ‘collaborate’ more with their customers and to understand the dynamics of these relationships…”

“The Ten Demandments represent a long-overdue shout from the mountaintops on behalf of the people who can make or break your company — your current and prospective customers.”

“You don’t have to kill a tree to create an effective marketing plan. In fact, you can create a successful plan for your business in just one day. To begin, don’t worry about writing style or making your plan fancy. Just go get a pencil and paper and let’s get started.”

“If you were responsible for building Microsoft Office, what would you do with the next version? This is a constant question at Microsoft, where they generally think a couple of releases ahead but still end up cramming in a bunch of last-minute changes to keep up with the current market.”