It doesn’t have to be an oxymoron IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, Americans have been made acutely aware of government in their daily lives. Why? A worldwide pandemic that shut down the U.S. economy required a government response. Daily, everyone reads about rising crime in our cities, raging inflation, challenges with our public school systems…
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Who likes to be criticized? We don’t like getting criticism and most people feel uncomfortable giving it. It takes us back to some usually negative memories from childhood. But Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were notorious for challenging their associates and criticizing their ideas relentlessly. Professor and author Roberto Verganti described the value of criticism…
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Do we really need to be creative and innovative to live longer? Can a company survive without continual innovation? Let’s face it. If your ancestors had not been innovative and emerged from the survival wars of our species you would not be reading this column. So let’s look at our species. According to Heather Pringle, a science…
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When was the last time you read a book with an introduction that read this way: “It all started with the Royal typewriter on a TV tray in the basement.” Meet Roy Reiman, an Iowa farm boy who came to Wisconsin, and started a publishing empire that grew to 12 magazines with 16 million subscribers…
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