Business Pundit

Seth Godin is a linchpin. He creates useful and enlightening written content. He covers business, marketing, personal growth, and career success with a single brush stroke. He’s a marketing guru, a public persona, a sage. He also defies… Read more

Walmart is going out on a limb with a new clown commercial (featured above) that aired during the NFL conference finals. In the recent past, Walmart’s marketing strategy was relatively simple: Stream in-store ads and de-clutter stores. But the… Read more

Share It’s been said many times that business is all about people. That being the case, perhaps we should stop reading management books for advice and start looking at social psychology. Very simply, social psychologists study how people… Read more

ESPN will launch ESPN 3D this year, television’s first 3-D network, in time for this year’s World Cup. ESPN reports from its website: ESPN 3D will showcase a minimum of 85 live sporting events during its first year, beginning June 11 with the… Read more

Also check out: The Cheat Sheet For Not Computer People Viral videos are one of the Internet’s best entertainment mediums. They teach, impress, and–perhaps most importantly–help you pass the time. Companies know this. When they commission… Read more

Monopoly City Streets, a new version of online Monopoly you can play through Google maps, goes live September 9. The game, co-sponsored by boardgame company Hasbro, allows you to build and trade property with other participants in real time…. Read more

Underdog stories don’t just happen in sports. Sometimes, regular people have to go head-to-head with a big company, industry, or government to stand by their principles. The chances of winning such a David and Goliath battle are usually small…. Read more

  You may know that I’ve spent the past year writing a novel. The art of it is pretty much complete, or at least as complete as my current skill and talent allow. Now the business begins. Whether or not my words ever reach the shelves of some… Read more

  Susan Piver is the author of several books including Quiet Mind: A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation and her latest,  How Not to Be Afraid of Your Own Life. I had the good fortune to take a brief meditation instruction from Piver at a recent… Read more

Layoffs don’t just apply to salaried employees. Business owners get laid off, too–by their clients. When clients cut costs, change strategy, declare bankruptcy, or are dismissed from their own positions, it hurts. When most of your clients start… Read more

I was watching one of those cooking reality shows the other day while I was putting a frozen lasagna in the oven and opening a bag of salad. I don’t remember if it was Top Chef or Naked Chef or Chefs with Big Knives or That Hot Foreign Chef… Read more

Don’t tell the Buddhist I’m interviewing for her keen business insights next week, but I’m not sure inner peace is right for everyone. Oh sure, you might go around smelling the flowers and noticing the unique chirp of this or that bright yellow… Read more

Vending machines have been around since the first century AD. By today’s accounts, even the first vending machine, which dispensed holy water to temple visitors, was weird. The tradition continues. This month alone, Germans released a 24K gold… Read more

Last night I took my family to party that held at the offices of an advertising agency. Color filled the walls, toys overflowed on desks and shelving, and the main space was open, with vibrant individual work areas arranged at angles around the… Read more