“Big mergers seldom work. The evidence is overwhelming. Period. So why do we see so damn many of them? One reason, chronicled in the 12 December BusinessWeek, is captured by this article title: ‘FAT MERGER PAYOUTS FOR CEOs: Whose Interest Is Being Served?’ James Kilts peddles Gillette to P&G. And pockets $165,000,000 for offloading this big, well-run company — i.e., no earthly reason to sell, save King Kilts’ Self-interest. Bruce Hammonds dumps MNBA, takes home $102,000,000…”

“Seth Godin is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. Godin’s books have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on the New York Times business book bestseller list.”

“Well I wasn’t planning on running this until next week but I couldn’t resist. This is a 10 questions interview with Mike Rundle, CDO at 9Rules Network. Right off the bat I have to thank Mike for the treasure trove of information in this 10 questions segment. This interview is a must read for anyone not matter what your area of focus is. So lets get down to what you all are here for.”