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By Jim Collins – The author of Good to Great on how to spot the subtle signs that your successful company is actually on course to sputter—and how to reverse the slide before it’s too late. I pondered and puzzled and finally settled upon the question: Is America renewing its greatness, or is America dangerously [...]

6/1/2010 – Gregory Ferenstein – The funny thing about business books is that for many stories, there are countless counterexamples of management philosophies that are radically different, yet still successful. What is inspiring about Zappos.com, the world’s largest online shoe retailer, is that it is possible for a business to be founded on curiosity, built [...]

Amazon.com | by Nicole Gelinas | 2009 Robust financial markets support capitalism, they don’t imperil it. But in 2008, Washington policymakers were compelled to replace private risk-takers in the financial system with government capital so that money and credit flows wouldn’t stop, precipitating a depression. Washington’s actions weren’t the start of government distortions in the [...]

FT | Review by John Gapper | Jan. 22, 2010 Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster – by Paul Ingrassia Japanese car companies, which overtook US ones in the early 21st century, leading to the bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler last year, used a method of industrial innovation called [...]

Entrepreneurs understand the importance of freedom in the workplace. City Journal | by Guy Sorman | October 21, 2009 Brian Carney and Isaac Getz’s Freedom, Inc. is a timely book. It’s also countercyclical and somewhat counterintuitive. After all, most of today’s writing about economics and business is haunted by the current crisis: nearly every author [...]

The All-Consuming Desire that Turns the American Dream into a Social Nightmare. Brian Tracy’s book, Something for Nothing, is an honest and critical look at many of the societal and cultural problems our society is facing. Tracy is most concerned with the natural tendencies and drives of our human nature, how they have been misdirected [...]