I learned much at the hands of my former boss, Lynn Goldberg, a legendary woman in publishing who was far more than a boss to me – she was part mother/part mentor/part friend. A key lesson she imparted during the decade I spent working for her was the gracious way to give credit where it […]
Today 800-CEO-READ announced the winners of their 2009 Business Book Awards, which highlights its top business book of the year along with winners and nominees in a number of categories including Leadership, Current Interest and Finance & Economics. TOO BIG TO FAIL by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking) won Business Book of the Year and we’re […]
The publishing and media worlds have had a tough year. With magazines folding, newspapers dying or going digital and staff cuts plaguing nearly every industry, it feels there has been little to celebrate. But while we watch our industry undergoing what is clearly a game-changing shift pushed by technological and digital innovation, watching an old […]
A “Shouts & Murmurs” piece in The New Yorker this week has me torn about an appropriate response to the recent upheavals in the publishing world. Have you read it? Does it make you want to laugh or cry? It’s hard not to laugh at Ellis Weiner‘s tongue-in-cheek portrayal of some poor “intern to replace […]