My friend Dan Pink has just released a new book, called Drive , which explores “the surprising truths about what motivates us.” In it, he identifies with clarity (and cleverness) the three big drivers of performance and success: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Dan’s advice speaks to individual performance, but some of it applies equally to business performance. With regard to having a sense of purpose, for example, he urges individuals to ask a question of themselves that I believe executives should also ask of their companies

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What’s Your Company’s Sentence?

Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti poses a vexing question for journalists and readers everywhere: If a disaster happens in an under-reported third world country, and there are only a couple of reporters on hand to document it, does it make a noise? Of course, the reverberations from the Haiti earthquake have been felt in headlines rippling across the globe. There is…

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Early Earthquake Coverage Roundup

Dan Gross at Slate pushes back against the false notion that the banks have paid back all their bailouts—a nasty little lobbyist-planted meme that the press needs to nip in the bud. I noted this morning that The Wall Street Journal editorial columnist Holman Jenkins is already, unsurprisingly, on this train.

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Indirect Subsidies Are Bailouts, Too

Huffington Post’s Editor Roy Sekoff appeared on “The Joy Behar Show” Wednesday to discuss Sarah Palin’s debut as a Fox News analyst. “Jon Stewart recently did a bit where he talked about how the Fox News hosts had to dumb themselves …

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Managers’ received wisdom about what gets people to excel — money, stock options, more money, then some more money — doesn’t work well for a lot of today’s independent-minded, plugged-in cubicle dwellers, Daniel Pink says in this lively tour of recent scholarship on motivation. Citing work by Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School, consultant Tammy Erickson , and many others, Pink, who is also the author of 2005′s A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future , looks at motivation from the viewpoints of both the leader and the led.

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Daniel Pink’s Drive

Four days into 2010 I received an email from a client, Erik, updating me on the progress he had made with his action plan since our last meeting in October. Back then, we had identified a number of things he needed to work on — including listening more effectively and being politically aware. The plan also included how he might measure his progress — for example, with the feedback he received from colleagues, improved relationships, and more visibility — and some target dates for improvement.

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For those individuals who have been afflicted with the “Political Bug” the book Game Change has been a much awaited fix. The irony however lies in how this particular book has marked a significant change in the e-book distribution game. Harper Collins has chosen to delay the Kindle release to assuage its fear of cannibalizing sales.

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‘Game Change’ Truly Changes the Game

One of the striking things about the news out of Haiti in the wake of yesterday’s devastating earthquake is that… given the scope of events, there’s not been that much news out of Haiti. One of the themes in the early reporting, in fact, is in the inability of Haitian Americans to get information about what’s happening in…

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That bank-tax reported yesterday looks like it will be broader and tougher than initially reported. The Huffington Post quotes a senior administration official saying that Obama will institute a tax not only to recoup taxpayer losses on the bailouts but also to penalize too-big-to-fail institutions and get back some of the taxpayer subsidy inherent in guaranteeing these firms’ survival….

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HuffPost Expands on the Obama Bank-Tax Plan

Any multinational business has to learn to play by different sets of rules in different places; the laws and powers that govern corporate activity are different in every nation they choose to operate in. And in every multinational business, there are senior executives with opinions about the relative justice of those laws

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Google to China: Enough is Enough

Earlier this month Microsoft announced that Project Natal for its Xbox 360 games console would be released later thin year. However, during his keynote speech at CES 2010, Steve Ballmer did not give any details on its price. …

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The controversy surrounding Harry Reid’s remarks has occupied the nation’s political press since they broke late Friday night. But a second controversy lurks behind: did John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the authors of Game Change, the book reporting the comments, “burn” Senator Reid by reporting his analysis of how candidate Obama’s electoral chances might be affected by…

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"Burned" Book

(Photo: Getty Images) Researchers are exploring how some of the synthetic chemicals used in plastics, cosmetics, toys, and other ubiquitous products may be contributing to the rise in obesity in the United States. What you eat and how often you exercise are still obviously extremely important, but researchers are finding that exposure to certain chemicals at critical times of development may predispose you to becoming fat and may make it harder for you to lose weight as an adult.   The chemicals, known as obesogens, mimic natural hormones and can wreak havoc on your endocrine system

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Is plastic making us fatter?

“At 69, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is as doggedly good-natured as ever,” Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard writes in his three-star review of Ringo’s latest. “His 16th studio album, Y Not is full of straightforward, …

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When General Mills asked for a way to increase awareness of Cheerios’ many flavors, Ji Lee — who was working for an ad agency after graduating from the Parsons School of Design — focused on what wasn’t there: “Only their holes taste the same.” No one could deny the humor, but eventually the tag line drowned in a puddle of corporate dialogue. All was not lost, though.

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Finding Inspiration in Cereal

Sunday’s New York Times profile of Roger Ailes claims that Fox News “is believed to make more money than CNN, MSNBC and the evening newscasts of NBC, ABC and CBS combined.” Monday’s Financial Times showcases Newsmax, another right-leaning upstart pulling ahead of the “liberal media” pack. Newsmax founder Chris Ruddy attributes the publication’s success—which include 2009…

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More on Fox News’s Magnificent Money Machine

Have you changed your behavior as a result of the “great recession?” According to a survey from the Department of Labor and a New York Times/CBS News poll , Americans are spending less time shopping and more time engaging in simple, low-cost activities with family and friends. These include “organizational, civic and religious” pursuits; home-based hobbies like gardening and cooking; family sports such as hiking; and cultural endeavors like going to museums and movies. For many people this may be an obvious result of having less money to spend.

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Has the Recession Made Your Life Simpler?

I’m not a technical writer or reviewer and no one is paying me to write this post. As I’m technically challenged,  I’m probably not going to use the right terminology and I can’t even really get really the nuts and bolts of how this thing works

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A Review for the Technically Challenged: My Droid Eris

A few months ago Alex, a marketing consultant I know, met with Sam, the head of marketing at a pharmaceutical company, to explore the possibility of doing a branding project.* They had a great meeting. Or so Alex thought.

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When Your Voicemails and Emails Go Unanswered, What Should You Do?