Measure Twice, Cut Once Before Your Scissors Rust (via LinkedIn Influencer)
This is a re-post of Steve Faktor’s original article on Linkedin Today (via LinkedIn’s INfluencer program) I don’t remember exactly when my dad told me to “measure twice and cut once”, but it must have...
View ArticleThe Economics of Happiness [via LinkedIn]
[This is a re-post of Steve Faktor's viral article on LinkedIn.] While researching my next book on the future of jobs, I had a revelation. No, God didn’t hand me a Windows tablet. I was blown away by...
View ArticleHow Success Smothers Greatness [via LinkedIn]
From Steve Faktor’s original article on LinkedIn. Last Thursday, a friend invited me to see a gifted young English singer-songwriter named Robert Leslie. I agreed, but couldn’t stay long. I already...
View Article10 Rules for Partnering with Big Corporations [via Forbes/LinkedIn]
This is a repost of Steve Faktor’s original piece on Forbes and LinkedIn Four months after leaving American Express, I got a distressed call from a startup I brought into the company to build an...
View ArticleHow These 11 Products Made Us NEED Them [via LinkedIn/Forbes]
This is a re-post of Steve Faktor’s original article on LinkedIn and Forbes. Not long ago, the New York subway was plastered with ads for a drug called Claritin. They showed lush, green landscapes and...
View ArticleThe 5 Rules of Email Amnesty
From Steve Faktor’s original article on LinkedIn. When it comes to answering emails, most business people are a bipolar mess. On one hand, we’re baking Ex-Lax brownies for a growing list of deadbeat...
View ArticleEmpower Your Visionaries
As we sit illuminated by flat-screens, covered in Doritos dust, it’s easy to imagine the day we fuse with our couches while binge-watching all the terrific new TV shows.. Why are there suddenly so many...
View ArticleHow Innovation is Like Sex
I woke up early this morning to finish a very profound article on the future of jobs. This clearly is not it. Instead, I thought we could have a little fun with an idea that’s been rattling around in...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship Lessons From 40 Criminals
At 6:40pm last night, I entered a room full of criminals. Ex-cons, to be exact. Needless to say, I couldn’t have been more conflicted about where to leave my laptop bag. I got over it by the time the...
View ArticleThe Prosperity Paradox
Something stubborn and senseless stands between us and a golden ‘Age of Abundance’. Surprisingly, it’s not gun lovers, Koch brothers, or Honey Boo Boo’s mother. While working on my next book, I...
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The Next Disruption of Music
From http://ideafaktory.com [Steve Faktor’s original version appeared on LinkedIn Influencer & Forbes] If you thought digital music piracy was disruptive, just wait until humans are outdone by...
View ArticleINTOLERANCE WE TRUST
From https://www.ideafaktory.com There was a glorious time in the late 1600’s when American villagers gathered in large groups, at night…with torches, to confront the greatest scourge of their time –...
View ArticleAmerica’s Corrosive New Apartheid
From https://www.ideafaktory.com From my ‘uncomfortable conversations’ file: Somewhere on the road to greatness, we took a wrong turn. We became The Divided Sects of America. There’s a corrosive...
View ArticleHow Combative Atheism is Like The Gay Rights Movement, but Less Fabulous
From https://www.ideafaktory.com For a while, I was enamored with the idea of aggressive non-believers like Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Bill Maher. Sure, every generation is...
View ArticleAre big $’s tricking us into making kids digital zombies?
From https://www.ideafaktory.com Dr Nicholas Kardaras says ‘Screens In Schools Are a $60B Hoax‘. Follow the money and it’s easy to see who the real beneficiaries are of tech saturation. Tech companies...
View Article[8] 5 Reasons Why Bullshit Won
From https://www.ideafaktory.com Ever wonder why suddenly there’s all kinds of “fake news” and everyone, including our President, can lie without consequence? Steve Faktor explains the five...
View Article[9] My Beautiful Monstrosity with Jim Jefferies
From https://www.ideafaktory.com This week is a treat. I welcome comedian Jim Jefferies as my guest. Yes, the same Jim Jefferies who told Piers Morgan to “F*** off!” on Real Time with Bill Maher last...
View ArticleAmerica’s Journalism Renaissance
From https://www.ideafaktory.com From the rubble of #FakeNews, cherry-picked truths, and reality bubbles, America is quietly having a journalism renaissance. Freedom of the press and speech are...
View ArticleThe REAL Reason You’re SMART, But Not RICH: The Kardashian Success Secret
From https://www.ideafaktory.com (In a rush? Jump to the essentials – #5 & 6, The Universal Success Formula) In an article titled, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just...
View ArticleLead With Your Afflikshun
From https://www.ideafaktory.com I just got an email that started with, “As a female entrepreneur, I….” Not only would I never have guessed Laura was a woman, I would have wasted precious minutes...
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