Features

Can You Learn to Think on Your Feet?
By Sol Hurwitz
Improvisational actors and jazz musicians do it all the time. Here's what you can learn from their techniques.

Brand-Name Leadership
By Tony Spaeth
Last year's corporate brandings and re-brandings show that the best logos come from CEOs with a strong vision.

Goodbye, London, Hello, France
By Stephen Clarke
"Alok for wah toowa king wizioo." And that's just the beginning of a Brit's adventures working for a French company.

Romance in the Office
By Janet Lever, Gail Zellman, and Stephen J. Hirschfeld
If your office is like most, there's a lot of carrying on being carried on. More than in days past? If so, why? And what should you do about it?

Whatever Happened to Standards?
By Moshe Yudkowsky
Why is it that 50-year-old light fixtures are compatible with those of today, but your 2-year-old computer can't handle new software? Is there a business case for having standards?

Watch What You Say
Rather than help a company act ethically, new government rules eroding attorney-client privilege may have the opposite effect.
By Michele Coleman Mayes

Dissenting Voice
By A.J. Vogl
What's wrong with black America today? A lot, says John McWhorter. Just don't look to most black activists for answers.

Questioning Authority
By Matthew Budman
J.D. Power IV and Chris Denove, customers-at-large

Questioning Authority
By Vadim Liberman
Al Gini, a man who knows good when he sees it

Questioning Authority
By Matthew Budman
Helen Gurley Brown, Queen of the Cosmos

Soundings

Where Right (of Way) Makes Might
By Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown

Golf Among the Hedges
By Barton Biggs

The Strange Plight of the Motorcar
By Marshall McLuhan

"Our CFO Runs With Scissors"
By Todd Barrett

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Departments

Press Box
By Ellsworth Quarrels
Why do we continue reading the advice of CEOs who not only have nothing to say but say it at length?

From the Board
What do you get when six opinion leaders meet for breakfast to discuss corporate governance? Some major food for thought.

In Review
By Robert A. Brawer
Willy Loman, Thomas More, and other characters from literature reveal what it means to be a leader.

In Review
By Steve Salerno
Here's what you get when you cross-breed Suze Orman, James Cramer, and Robert Kiyosaki.

Sightings
By Matthew Budman
A Bright Future in Sails

Openers
By A.J. Vogl

Columns

Adventures in Cyberspace
By E.J. Heresniak
The eight steps you need to follow before you buy technology's next big thing.

The Irrational Universe
By Phyllis Gail Doloff
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but it still tastes better than forgiving and forgetting.

Entrepreneuring
By Larry Farrell
Entrepreneurs are gamblers willing to bet the pot — right?