My mother recently had her 100th birthday! While that is a remarkable achievement, it is not something I would normally post here. Except for this. Over the past number of months, during a period of her shaky health, I have been making daily visits to her assisted living home, and our conversations provide two important …
Brad Tilden has always loved airplanes. When he had the opportunity to join Alaska Airlines, “I jumped at it ― a dream come true.” He started as director of general accounting, and became CEO and chairman last year. Safety, on-time flights, and airfares are some of the topics.
The Seattle Times, May 22, 2013 Apple CEO Tim Cook strongly defended the company’s tax practices in a Senate hearing highlighting their use of Irish subsidiaries to shelter billions of dollars of income from U.S. taxes. “We pay all the taxes we owe-every single dollar,” Cook told the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “We not …
The Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2013 The Irish government denied it shelters some of the world’s largest corporations, such as Apple, from paying taxes, saying that its long standing low corporate tax regime is transparent and doesn’t make it a tax haven. An investigation by the U.S. Senate has revealed that, through the technicalities …
The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2013 Criminal insider trading charges were brought by federal prosecutors against Scott London, a former KPGM LLP partner who the government said reaped more than $50,000 in cash and gifts, including a $12,000 Rolex watch, for providing stock tips that enabled a friend to make at least $1,200,000 in …
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business by Patrick Lencioni. San Francisco: Josey Bass, 2012. xvii, 216 pp. Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a management consulting practice focused on organizational health and executive development. He is the author of nine other books. His others are written as …
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APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch. Self-published under Nononina Press, 2013. x, 313 pp. Guy Kawasaki is the author of 11 previous books, including What the Plus!, Enchantment, and the Art of the Start. He is also the co-founder of Alltop.com and the former chief evangelist of …
DILEMMA I signed a contract with Oxford Press for my book in 2004. Its termination clause reads, “In the event that the Work shall at any time be out of print, the Author may give notice thereof to the Publisher, and in such event the Publisher shall declare within thirty days … and then this …
