While struggling with the topic and content of this column, the trickle of underwhelming Brick & Mortar sales results from many retailers' holiday season began to hit the press.
"When my wife and I were kids, our parents never took us on vacation," he e-mailed back when I sent him the topic of this week's column, "so it never occurs to us to do it".
The topic of this week's column is time-honored when it comes to business, perhaps even overused in many cases, and in the startup world, sometimes mocked, and at others, romanticized, but usually only in hindsight: The Pivot.
When I mentioned the topic of my column this week, she pulled out her iPhone and showed me a video shot by a relative that recorded a dark bedroom with strange, orb-like lights moving across the wall.
HBS Professor James Heskett ponders the topic in this column, which first appeared on the HBS Working Knowledge website.
I've linked to a couple of our best articles on the topic in the online version of this column.
The potential — and limitations — of what can be thought of as Big Data economics was the topic of my column over the weekend.
If I wasn't playing dumb or naive, I would fake a hearing impairment as you showered me with hints about why you had come, how you really felt, and what the topic of your column was going to be.
In a private message to Tim O'Reilly, Pogue said "I'm using, of course, GrandCentral, which was the topic of my column today.
