J.K. Rowling & the Harry Potter Empire I’m diverging a bit today from my usual recommendation to celebrate the incredible saga of J.K. Rowling’s fiction career … justified even more because, as you’ll see, she is already 3 books into...

A brand anthem expresses to your customers the core values related your brand and products, but it's easily trashed with one simple mistake.

   

We’ve got this strange and wonderful world around us … and then just as I was Getting to the Point with so many fascinating tidbits from the world of business, medicine, health, psychology and culture … I hear In the...

I'm pretty sure most of us missed the Crusades … and know very little of medieval warfare. W hile battle strategy in that era appears to be random and haphazard, certainly in most movies depicting that period, planning invariably eclipsed brute force. Strategy proved...

Testimony by Scott Turow It takes a talented writer like Scott Turow to tackle the theme of the Bosnian War. In Testimony, his character, Bill ten Boom, … yes, that name is correct … investigates the murder of 400 members...

This week we’re Getting to the Point with some valuable insights from the business world along with fascinating stories from the worlds of psychology, science, health and politics. This week’s Featured Article, Apply these 7 Criteria to Decide If You’ve...

   

True Evil by Greg Iles Just over one month ago, I said that if you’re hankering for something to read … maybe to carry you into summer and beyond … you should tackle the Penn Cage series from Greg Iles...

Baseball season is in full swing, so it's a good time to remember how great hitters get to the Hall of Fame. I t's the same process you should use to focus on revenue enhancement, a fancy term for "get more...

 

This week we’re Getting to the Point with some helpful advice from the business world along with some fascinating tidbits from the music, tech, media, military and scientific arenas. Be sure you don’t miss our Announcement about an important change in...

Our leadership prowess is always on the line but nowhere more powerfully than on the starting line at the Indy 500. Y ou're all in, 24/7 for 365 days ... with victory in a 33 car lineup about 3 hours away....

The Lost Order by Steve Berry Steve Berry is back and has written a fascinating book in the Cotton Malone series that fictionalizes (but nowhere near as much as you think) about the Knights of the Golden Circle, the largest...

This week we’re Getting to the Point with some helpful advice in from the business world along with some fascinating tidbits from the art, tech and medical arenas. Once again, the civilized world contends with an unspeakable terrorist act, this...

You've heard sayings that rhyme with this sentiment … probably ad nauseum throughout your life. Yet, there is no greater truth. We find what we're really made of … not when everyone's watching … not when everything is going swimmingly...

I just finished another great story from the pen of John Sandford, the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose 27th Lucas Davenport novel, Golden Prey, was just released.Lucas is now a U.S. Marshall for the first...