http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog Exploring business and its impact on life with Stever Robbins Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:37:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can handle it just fine. Sure. In what universe? My Get-it-Done ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/email-overload-costs-and-benefits-175 Have you ever wondered how certain corrupt businesspeople can keep spouting great, moral words while doing the exact opposite in their behavior? You wonder how they can wax eloquent about the need to give customers high-quality products while they happily substitute inferior quality raw materials to save costs. You wonder: ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/the-key-to-ethical-sane-behavior-the-little-voice-174 This post kept appearing and reappearing in my RSS feed. I've deleted it and am re-creating it in the hopes that the strange behavior will stop happening. Fingers are crossed. Maybe you’ve been successfully brainwashed and just don’t know it. How would you? ... Find the transcript of this podcast at ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/groupthink-brainwashing-and-politics-hopefully-fixed-172 In this Business Explained podcast, I talk with Bob Burg, co-author of The Go-Giver, a current best-selling business book that lays out the five principles of why Giving just may be the key to success. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast episode, Giving to Build Success. http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/giving-just-may-be-the-path-to-success-170 I just read this article in the Atlantic about how the Net has changed the way the article's author thinks. He's wondering what the larger, societal effects will be. Being The Atlantic, he's also savvy enough to realize there may be unintended good consequences that can't be predicted, in addition ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/is-the-net-changing-the-way-you-think-sure-has-me-171 I just read this article in the New York times. Harvard Researchers who study child psychiatry have done research credited with vastly increasing the diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder. That increase comes with a pretty hefty boost to sales of prescription medication for the condition. And oh, yes, the researchers ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/corrupt-research-even-at-harvard-169 Last night I wandered into a bookstore by mistake and ended up sitting through a fascinating talk by economist Jared Bernstein. He was discussing the economic trends that have us feeling overworked, underpaid, and anything but upwardly mobile. Unlike most economists, though, he could speak plain English and made his ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/why-do-we-feel-so-economically-squeezed-167 The New York Times reported that sales of smaller compacts and subcompacts are on the rise, now that we're in a gas crunch. Industry analysts (who are young enough that they don't remember the 70s) are calling this "a first." I tried to tell a friend that we've had cars that ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/whos-surprised-by-compact-car-sales-spotting-trends-in-advance-166 Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old founder of iContact.com, the web's second biggest marketing website. Ryan spoke in this podcast about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast, "Passion Play." http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/ryan-allis-passion-165 I grew up in the era of the Apollo moon launches. One of my earliest memories is traveling to Cape Canaveral and watching from the beach as one of the missions was launched towards the moon. It was pretty incredible. Despite frequent moves and attending six schools between elementary school and ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/science-has-worked-so-well-that-superstition-now-reigns-supreme-164