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…
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.
BusinessA big-name hosting vendor missed our payroll, and paying the penalty to leave was the cheapest fix we had. Here are the rules I took from years on the buying side of IT, from small vendors to exit clauses to…
BusinessSome management habits never get anybody fired, and they still burn through good people. A boss who needs 100 percent of the information, a review that dredges up a mistake fixed nine months ago, and a meeting built to pat…
Book CoachI paid a coach a couple of thousand dollars for a 52-week course that turned out to be PLR material I already owned, and I quit a webinar halfway through because it taught nothing. Both are easy to spot before…
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