Fewer women seem to be climbing the corporate ladder on Wall Street these days. Amy Siskind says it's time to get rid of bad managers with gender bias—it would only be good business.

...I want to discuss the possibility that we are living at the end of a great arc of history, which began with the invention of moveable type. There have, of course, been other transformative steps in communication during that half millennium – the invention of the telegraph, or radio and television, for instance – but essentially they were continuations of an idea of communication that involved one person speaking to many.

That's not dead as an idea. But what's happening today – the mass ability to communicate with each other, without having to go through a traditional intermediary – is truly transformative....

Peter Lennox keeps chickens, and they have taught him a great deal about behaviour, ethics, evolution and the psychopathic nature of modern 'efficiency'

The list of what works in other countries, but no longer does in the U.S., is growing.

I was in the London underground yesterday returning from a wonderful planning meeting at Trafalgar Square. I love the London underground because it has clean, cushy seats that face each other. In New York City, we have hard fiberglass seats, maybe that's what Frank Sanatra was talking about...Anyways, so I'm in the "tube" as they call it here. And across from me, there's this kid with his dad.

One of the most powerful communications tools still remains the pen and paper. While technologies such as blogs, video and photo sharing sites, and phones that can capture and post all of that content, have helped to create a 24/7, always-on communications and news cycle, it has only enhanced how powerful a simple pen and piece of paper can be. Now, you’re probably starting to reach this post and think I’m insane. But, what I’m referring to is not writing memos, or publishing newspaper articles, capturing notes during a meeting or anything like that. I’m talking about the power that a simple hand-written note can wield. Notice, I did say hand-written.

Changes in the economy have had the surprising effect of making the manual trades more attractive as careers.

In March of this year, National Public Radio (NPR) revealed that by the end of 2008, 23.6 million people were tuning into its broadcasts each week. In fact,

Ramblings from a user interface designer and amateur neuroscientist.

The dreaded It Depends answer is the bane of existence for a lot of corporate communicators trying to get involved in social media. We want shortcuts. We

These are notes for a talk I am preparing for a 15 May talk in London, at the Somesso conference. I was asked to think about how business should think about their outreach to markets in the context of the...

I have been working on a new startup called Edglings (see www.edglings.com). It's a product company, building applications that dovetail with Twitter, trying to make the experience of Twitter richer, deeper, and more social. How do I and my partners...

From a summer job at Shoe Giant, a lifetime of lessons about selling.

Of course you'd like to think that most of your daily conversation is weighty and witty but instead everyone chats about pedestrian nonsense with their pals. In fact, that ephemeral chit-chat is the stuff that holds human social groups together.

To understand Broadway’s newest composer, you have to start in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. But that’s not where you’ll really find her.

Had Alexis de Tocqueville, the great author of Democracy in America, ever found himself in a modern-day classroom, it’s safe to wager he would not have used PowerPoint. Tocqueville cautioned that America’s obsessive pragmatism would wed its often impoverished intellectual life to the demands of practical productivity. The cumbersome weight of majority opinion, he warned, would turn our educational institutions into mere adjuncts of popular culture. A fashionable new trend is at the intersection of these two pernicious currents: using PowerPoint presentations as a teaching tool for class instruction.

Writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years

The failed bankers on Wall Street have been whining that if they have to cut bonuses and salaries dramatically, they'll be unable to recruit great talent, and they need great talent to fix the situation. And for years, boards have...

I found Martin Eberhard, co-founder and former CEO of Tesla Motors, in the pages of 2600. I was deep in ...

The authors observe that when someone is feeling some strong emotion - pain, fear, anger, whatever - a lot of the time, all they really need is for someone to acknowledge that. To simply name that feeling. 'You must be really angry.' 'It's disappointing when things don't go as planned.' 'Sounds like you're really frustrated.'

It’s funny. We start out in life weird little creatures who put crackers on our heads and yell, “Ga-ZOO ZOO!” just because it strikes us as something we should probably do. We fall down and stay there. Just felt like it. We wear socks on our hands.