We’re All Too Busy … Missing Amazing Opportunities

By guest authors Daniel Burrus and John David Mann Two questions. First: Are you busier now than you were a year ago? You don’t even need to check your calendar: a quick gut check tells you the answer. Sure you are. Every month seems to go by faster than the last. And second: In the

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What’s WRONG With Publishing (Really)?

Why am I down on the publishing world? It’s starting to make little sense why I would write something that while widely read could be given out in a “cleverer” format. Doing a book with a major corporation just starts to seem…odd, given the proclivities in which I do everything else now. With that far-reaching statement, and by means of explaining my thought process, here is why publishing, as the kids say, needs to man up and change itself.

Borders vs Amazon

We have talked much about eBay vs Amazon, Yahoo vs Google, Netflix vs Blockbuster. Yesterday, while walking around in Union Square, looking at the lights on the Macy’s windows, we also walked into the Borders bookstore opposite Saks Fifth Avenue. This, below, is a camera-phone capture of a shelf that attempts a brick-n-mortar version of

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