Episodes
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Do the twenties matter?
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Research tells us that we probably will have many careers in our elongated lifetime; that we may even have many spouses. This is a far cry from the the post war boomer ideal of one career and in some cases one job and one spouse. Given all of this life change, does what happens in our 20s really matter.
In an era in which graduate school is almost de rigueur for a good job, when young men are more and more in a state of prolonged adolescence, in some cases moving home to mom, is 20 simply the new 20? Dr. Meg Jay has stirred up some controversy with her new look at twenty somethings, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
My conversation with Meg Jay:
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
How Goofing Off Drives Success
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
The culture of business today, particularly in the world of tech, is not modeled after Sterling Cooper. While in the days of Mad Men twenty-percent of the time might have been spent boozing and flirting, later to be supplanted by golf, today that same time is often spent by individuals working on their own pet projects. These are not your fathers companies and the results are impressive. Long time technology journalist and blogger Ryan Tate takes us inside companies that practice The 20% Doctrine: My conversation with Ryan Tate:
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Is wearing a bracelet or a ribbon enough?
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
Wednesday Apr 25, 2012
We live a world in which we want everything to be easy. We want instant gratification, sound bite politics, fast food and instant cures for all problems. We also want our philanthropy to be easy and painless. If we can go shopping or just wear a bracelet and do good, what could be better? The problem is, like most things instant, it’s not that simple or that good. Or maybe it is, if we only think of ourselves as consumers rather than engaged and caring human beings. This is the jumping off point for Mara Einstein in Compassion, Inc.: How Corporate America Blurs the Line between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help My conversation with Mara Einstein:
Tuesday Apr 24, 2012
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality OR Why Greed is Not Good
Tuesday Apr 24, 2012
Tuesday Apr 24, 2012
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Entrepreneurs and The Coming Prosperity
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Monday Apr 23, 2012
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Equal Pay and Fairness - a radical idea
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Thursday Apr 19, 2012
Wednesday Apr 18, 2012
Is it possible?
Wednesday Apr 18, 2012
Wednesday Apr 18, 2012
On June 12th, 1994 a double homicide took place in Brentwood, CA. that would forever change the way we view crimes, criminal procedure and the American justice system. No crime and trial has ever drawn a bigger audience than the trial of O.J. Simpson for the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The players, the events, the moments are still powerfully etched in the public consciousness and even our popular entertainment had to shift to accommodate the perceptions we had all been inculcated with as a result of the crime and trial. But was justice served? Did O.J. get away with murder? Has the downward spiral of his life been a kind of karmic punishment for a crime he got away with, OR...was he innocent? Did someone else actually commit the crime. Private Investigator Bill Dear has a different theory and like it or not, he's spent the past eighteen years pursuing it and now he lays it out in O.J. is Innocent and I Can Prove It My conversation with Bill Dear:
Tuesday Apr 17, 2012
Israel on the brink
Tuesday Apr 17, 2012
Tuesday Apr 17, 2012
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Mike Wallace
Monday Apr 16, 2012
Monday Apr 16, 2012
As many of you saw last night, 60 Minutes devoted an entire program to a retrospective of Mike Wallace's remarkable body of work. It reminded me of a conversation I had with Wallace back in 2006, just after his retirement from 60 Minutes, and upon the publication of the second volume of his memoirs. At the time Wallace was 87 years old, yet still personified and profoundly understood the role of broadcast journalism. This seemed like a good time to post that interview with Mike Wallace
Friday Apr 13, 2012
The Summer that changed Baseball - and America
Friday Apr 13, 2012
Friday Apr 13, 2012
My conversation with Tim Wendel
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Atheism 2.0
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
Thursday Apr 12, 2012
My conversation with Alain de Botton:
Tuesday Apr 10, 2012
Great Soul
Tuesday Apr 10, 2012
Tuesday Apr 10, 2012
There are very few individuals for whom just the mention of their name conjures up a complete set of beliefs and values. Gandhi is certainly one of those. So it is remarkable that as India continues to go through its current transformation, that Gandhi's legacy is still evolving. Former New York Times Executive Editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld in Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India, takes us on the journey of Gandhi's extraordinary struggles on two continents, his ideals and values and how the nation that still revers him, rejected so many of his values. My conversation with Joseph Lelyveld:
Monday Apr 09, 2012
when God talks back
Monday Apr 09, 2012
Monday Apr 09, 2012
It seemed that everywhere we turned last week religion was front and center. Easter, Passover and even our political dialogue all contained different sides of religious discussion. But what happens when the religious rhetoric goes to extremes? When individuals and even politicians claim to have spoken directly to, or are taking insttructions from God? Is this still religion, or have we crossed a line in psychosis? This is the backdrop for Tanya Luhrmann’s, When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God My conversation with T.M. Luhrman
Friday Apr 06, 2012
From North Korea to Freedom
Friday Apr 06, 2012
Friday Apr 06, 2012
Thursday Apr 05, 2012
The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families
Thursday Apr 05, 2012
Thursday Apr 05, 2012
Youth sports are more than just a pastime. They are a multi-billion dollar business that begins in elementary school and continues into a college system, certainly as competitive as the pros. The movies Hoosiers, Hoop Dreams, Friday Night Lights and Lucas are just a few of the ways that popular culture has reflected our youth sports obsession. What was once a gentle diversion for kids, is today sometimes the difference between setting the stage for success or failure later in life. Journalist and sports management Professor Mark Hyman has been looking at the issues surrounding youth sports for years and in his new book he concludes that it is clearly The Most Expensive Game in Town. My conversation with Mark Hyman:
Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
This is Your Brain on Emotions
Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
Wednesday Apr 04, 2012
We live in a world in which we praise logic and reason. Yet to a large extent we are still ruled by our emotions. Moreover, new research shows us the power of emotions and that to very real extent, we do just as well making our decisions and choices from a combination of emotion and reason. All of this relates to what we understand about how the emotional system works, what are the genetic and biochemical components of the brain and can we define and maybe even change our emotional style? These are the areas of cutting edge research being explored by Dr. Richard J. Davidson. Davidson has defined six emotional dimensions that reflect the discoveries of modern neuroscientific research. My conversation with Dr. Richard J. Davidson about The Emotional Life of Your Brain.
Tuesday Apr 03, 2012
Jonah Lehrer explains How Creativity Works
Tuesday Apr 03, 2012
Tuesday Apr 03, 2012
George Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying, that "some men see things as they are and ask why, others dreams things that never were and ask why not." This is often quoted in a political context, but could also be said to be a central question of creativity. Where does creativity come from, how can it be stimulated, and like the uncertainty principle, if we try too hard to understand it, do we in some way alter it? Jonah Lehrer, the author of "How we Decide" gives us a contemporary and real look at the creative process in his new book Imagine: How Creativity Works. My conversation with Jonah Lehrer:
Monday Apr 02, 2012
The Making of The Military Industrial Complex
Monday Apr 02, 2012
Monday Apr 02, 2012
Last night on 60 Minutes we learned how man's reach into space has been virtually shut down over three billion dollars! While certainly this is real money, it is but a mere fraction of America's defense budget, much of which goes for waste, fraud, abuse and to satisfy the insatiable demands of the "military industrial complex." Fifty years ago, Eisenhower warned us about it. Today journalist William Hartung takes us inside the largest of America's ongoing military pariahs, Lockheed Martin.