Lessons from decades of professional experience, including 20 years in IT leadership and a second career ghostwriting 54 business books. These articles cover leadership, operations, and the strategic thinking that drives business success.
BusinessBill Friedman's 2000 textbook on casino layout, built from years of studying how players move through Nevada casinos. It's where the maze floor, the low ceilings and the missing clocks got their rationale.
BusinessDonald Trump's 1987 business memoir, written with journalist Tony Schwartz. It spent 13 weeks at number one on the New York Times list and did more to build a public image than any real estate deal could. It's also a…
BusinessRon Sukenick's first book, a 1995 guide to building a network of key business contacts through relationships instead of business-card collecting. It's where the ideas he spent the next three decades teaching first appeared in print.
BusinessAn anthology of short essays on relationship-based networking from about a hundred practitioners, compiled by BNI founder Ivan Misner and Don Morgan in 2000. Ron Sukenick was among the contributors.
BusinessA 2013 business parable by Ron Sukenick and Ken Williams. Gnik Rowten moves to a new city with no contacts and learns relationship networking one lesson a day for three weeks. Spell his name backward and you get the subject…
BusinessHistorian Andrew Huse's history of the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, from a cafe serving cigar workers to a family-owned group of restaurants across Florida, run by the same family since its founding. It mixes history, family photographs and 77…
BusinessDonato Giancola turned down an Asimov's cover after the magazine's new owner sent a work-for-hire contract with free revisions, no original art and a fee-clawback NDA, all for a decades-old fee. Here's when work for hire is fair, and when…
BusinessAmazon wanted $6.99 to ship a $25.95 bottle of vitamins. The manufacturer shipped it free for four cents more. Sponsored listings that bury the right product, a $2.5 billion Prime settlement, shows that wreck their source material, Echoes that wake…
BusinessWhy the post-Cold War trade order is breaking down and America is bringing manufacturing home, from the pandemic and the chip shortage to war, shipping attacks and rare earths, and why the suppliers, workers and test labs behind each factory…
BusinessA publisher offers a modest advance for worldwide, lifetime rights to books you already self-published. The advance is probably all you'll ever see, and getting the rights back can take 35 years. Here's when it makes sense, and what to…
BusinessMost business books are lectures. A business novel lets the reader ride along while characters learn the lesson, and a separately sold workbook gives them something to do with it afterward.
Artificial IntelligenceWhen a commercial tool annoys me, I build my own with Claude. My booking system took 44 versions and one bug silently threw away bookings, and the habits I learned from it apply to any writer or small business owner.
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