When I was six years old, a friend of my mother's told her she thought I was too skinny. My mother called up our family doctor, Dr. Stone, and asked what to do. Dr. Stone told her to give me two banana milkshakes a day:...
Last week, CEO.com published its 2nd annual Social CEO Report, examining in great detail the social networking presence of each of the Fortune 500 CEOs. Their findings were surprising: Most notably, 68% of CEOs have absolutely no presence on any of the major social networks...
Movies are a timeless tradition - whether out at the theater, snuggled up at home, or increasingly, while on the move (when was the last time you took a plane ride or train ride and didn't see someone watching a movie?) Movies allow us to...
I've been thinking about and writing about likeable business for several years now. There are many opinions about what makes a likeable leader, and about whether it's even desirable for a leader to be likeable. My wife Carrie Kerpen, the CEO of Likeable Media who...
Podcasting has quietly become mainstream. Apple just surpassed 1 billion subscriptions for podcasts via its iTunes app. As USA Today just noted in a cover story, many top podcasts — such as the Nerdist, NPR's This American Life and Aisha Tyler's Girl on Guy, see...
When I was in first grade, I used to always want to be the line leader in class. I would get fussy and sometimes even get into mischief when I wasn't the line leader. But my teacher Mrs. Flayton would say to me, as she...
The times, they-are-a-changing. As a CEO, I've personally hired dozens of people in the last three years without looking at a resume (I use LinkedIn!). Social media has gone from non-existent to a vital part of most people's lives and careers in the last ten...
This morning, I sent my 10 year old and 6 year old daughters off to their first day of fifth grade and first grade in school respectively. They were up at 6:30am, showered and dressed by 7, and ready for school by 7:30. They insisted...
I just keynoted LinkedIn's Brand Connect Asia-Pacific '13 conference in beautiful Singapore, so I figured what better place to share my presentation from a LinkedIn conference than, well, LinkedIn! So here are the 7 simple rules I just shared about how to do amazing content...
Last week, Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson was fired after gossip tech blog Valleywag reported his homophobic, racist, misogynistic tweets he'd been tweeting for years. His tweets included phrases such as: - "In The Passion Of The Christ 2, Jesus gets raped by a pack of ni--ers....
