Here are some interesting articles and opinion pieces on business, creative, and social issues that for me seem to hold up over time:
“The Power of Mattering at Work” by Jennifer Breheny Wallace (Wall Street Journal: 12/1/22)
“The American Dream Can’t Be a Sham” by Laura Forman (Wall Street Journal: 1/10/22)
“A Letter to the Unvaccinated” by Anita Sircar (Los Angeles Times: 8/17/21)
“Why We Should Apply the Hawaiian Concept of ‘Malama’ to All Our Travels” by Jesse Ashlock (Conde Nast Traveler: 8/9/21)
“The Drivers of Success” by Clifton Leaf (Fortune: 6/2/21)
“The Other Tragedy of January 6” by Robert Post (The Atlantic: 1/16/21)
“Facebook is a Doomsday Machine” by Adrienne LaFrance (The Atlantic: 12/15/20)
“The World Needs American Idealism Again” by Fareed Zakaria (Wall Street Journal: 11/20/20)
“Good Luck, President-Elect Biden, You’ll Need It” by Al Franken (Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: 11/10/20)
“Philosophy for a Time of Crisis” by Eric Weiner (Wall Street Journal: 8/27/20)
“How to Sustain Momentum for the Anti-Racism Movement” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Los Angeles Times: 7/7/20)
“Beckett Wrote It Out For You” by Charles McNulty (Los Angeles Times: 5/25/20)
“Make America Immune Again” by Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times: 5/5/20)
“Will We Stop Trump Before It’s Too Late?” by Madeleine Albright (New York Times: 4/6/18)
“How America Lost Its Mind” by Kurt Andersen (The Atlantic: September 2017)
“Can the Tech Giants Be Stopped?” by Jonathan Taplin (Wall Street Journal: 7/14/17)
“Learning to Love Intelligent Machines” by Garry Kasparov (Wall Street Journal: 4/14/17)
“What Is a Data Scientist, Anyway?” by Deborah Gage (Wall Street Journal: 3/12/17)
“Building Global Community” by Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook: 2/16/17)
“‘Book Doctors’ Say What You Need is a Good Read” by Sarah Sloat (Wall Street Journal: 12/18/16)
“Another Age of Discovery” by Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times: 6/22/16)
“How Trade Made America Great” by Frederick W. Smith (Wall Street Journal: 3/25/16)
“Why Big Companies Keep Getting Disrupted” by Christopher Mims (Wall Street Journal: 1/25/16)
“End the Gun Epidemic in America” by The Editorial Board (New York Times: 12/4/15)
“The Ethical Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs” by Kirk O. Hanson (Wall Street Journal: 11/23/15)
“How Tom Wolfe Became… Tom Wolfe” by Michael Lewis (Vanity Fair: November 2015)
“Where in the World Did Blockbuster Educational Games Go?” by Bryant Francis (Gamasutra: 5/18/15)
“Religion’s Role in the History of Ideas” by Michael Roth (Wall Street Journal: Februray 20, 2015)
“The 15 Numbers Every Investor Needs to Know” by Anna Prior (Wall Street Journal: 1/2/15)
“James Patterson is on a Mission to #SaveOurBooks” by Carolyn Kellogg (Los Angeles Times: 12/11/14)
“Potholes on the Uber Ride to Riches” by Andy Kessler (Wall Street Journal: 12/8/14)
“Market Missteps Fuel Inequality” by Josh Zumbrun (Wall Street Journal: 10/27/14)
“The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats” by Nick Hanauer (Politico: 6/26/14)
“Hitting the Road: Twelve Tips for Your Next Book Talk” by Ken Goldstein (Authors First: 5/13/14)
“The Culture of Shut Up” by Jon Lovett (The Atlantic: 4/7/14)
“The Man Who Died Laughing” by Carol Starr Schneider (Los Angeles Times: 3/24/14)
“A Game Plan for Job Seekers” by Brett Arends (Wall Street Journal: 3/7/14)
“Start-Up America: Our Best Hope” by Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times: 2/15/14)
“Why There’s No Outcry” by Robert Reich (RobertReich.org: 1/25/14)
“The Last Ring” by Bill Plaschke (Los Angeles Times: 7 Article Series Ending 8/25/13)
“The Luxury of Invisible Privilege” by Jackie Summers (The Good Men Project: 7/14/13)
“Management Is (Still) Not Leadership” by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Review: 1/9/13)
“Eunuchs of the Universe” by Tom Wolfe (The Daily Beast / Newsweek Online: 1/4/13)
“How the Internet Saved the Novel” by L. Gordon Crovitz (Wall Street Journal: 10/14/12)
“Princeton University’s 2012 Baccalaureate Remarks” by Michael Lewis (News at Princeton: 6/3/12)
“The Iron Law That’s Choking Creativity” by Neal Gabler (Los Angeles Times: 6/3/12)
“Why Did Edutainment Become a Bad Word?” by Ken Goldstein (ACM Computers in Entertainment: 5/1/12)
“For Those Musicals About To Rock” by Rob Weinert-Kendt (Center Theatre Group Program: March 2012)
“NFL’s Mutiny on the Bounties” by Jason Gay (Wall Street Journal: 3/5/12)
“Why Software Is Eating The World” by Marc Andreessen (Wall Street Journal: 8/20/11)
“Stop Coddling the Super Rich” by Warren E. Buffett (New York Times: 8/14/11)
“The Elusive Big Idea” by Neal Gabler” (New York Times: 8/13/11)
“How a city reached its limit with the Dodgers” by Chris Dufresne (Los Angeles Times: 6/25/11)
“America the stony-hearted” by Neal Gabler (Los Angeles Times: 5/22/11)
“Engineering vs. Liberal Arts: Who’s Right—Bill or Steve?” by Vivek Wadhwa (TechCrunch: 3/21/11)
“The Many Trials of ‘Spider-Man'” by Peter Schneider (Wall Street Journal: 3/11/11)
“Thank You. No, Thank You” by Melinda Beck (Wall Street Journal: 11/23/10)
“It’s Modern Trade: Web Users Get as Much as They Give” by Jim Harper (Wall Street Journal: 8/7/10)
“How Will You Measure Your Life” by Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business Review: July 2010)
”Ocean Acidification’s Ground Zero” by Christopher Pala (Honolulu Weekly: 5/8/10)
“The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America?” by Kurt Andersen (Time Magazine: 3/26/09)
“The Internet vs. books: Peaceful coexistence” by Beau Friedlander (Los Angeles Times: 11/9/08)
“Old Wisdom for New Media” by Ken Goldstein (Brandweek: 5/5/08)
“Must I Bank?” by Jonathan A. Knee (Wall Street Journal: 4/23/08)
“Management a la Google” by Gary Hamel (Wall Street Journal: 4/26/06)
“Self-help’s big lie” by Steve Salerno (Los Angeles Times: 1/1/06)
“The Education of Andy Grove” by Richard S. Tedlow (Fortune Magazine: 12/12/05)
“Stanford Commencement Address 6/12/05” by Steve Jobs (Stanford Report: 6/14/05)
“My Turn” by Ken Goldstein (Game Daily: January 2004)
“The Serious Business of Literature” by Kate Jennings (Los Angeles Times: 5/11/03)
“What Strategists Can Learn from Sartre” by James Ogilvy ( Strategy + Business, Winter 2003)
“Do You Believe? How Yahoo! Became A Blue Chip” by Joseph Nocera (Fortune Magazine: 6/7/99)
“Competing Through Innovation: The Case of Broderbund” by Glenn Rifkin (Strategy + Business: 4/1/98)
“The Green Fields of the Mind” by A. Bartlett Giamatti (A Great and Glorious Game—Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti: 1998)
“The Ballad of Richard Jewell” by Marie Brenner (Vanity Fair: February 1997)
“Perchance to Dream” by Jonathan Franzen (Harper’s: April 1996)
“Letter from Los Angeles” by Joan Didion (The New Yorker: February 26, 1990)
“Stalking the Billion Footed Beast” by Tom Wolfe (Harper’s Magazine: November 1989)
Corporate Intelligence Radio™ clippings collection selected and edited by Ken Goldstein.
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