So much has already been written about Steve Jobs as a business, design, and technology visionary. The commentary has focused on how he saw a dazzling digital future, and created it for every consumer to live and enjoy. And also how he changed the world in so many ways. He was frequently compared to those other giants [...]

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The news of Detroit’s demise certainly was premature. Like the mythical Phoenix rising from the ashes, Detroit has been pulling itself out of its death spiral to show the world what it’s really made of. First there was the rebound of the US car industry. (Of course, that would have never happened without the Obama [...]

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That, of course, is the big question that everyone has been asking following the recent resignation of Steve Jobs, the iconic founder, savior, and CEO of Apple, and now the deified business and cultural figure. (Am I the only person who felt the gushing stories about Jobs’ God-like qualities were way over the top?! Probably. There [...]

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NY Times business columnist James B. Stewart recently ran an article on the improbable comeback of Chrysler. The story, now pretty well known, had timely new resonance because Italy’s Fiat Group had just acquired the remaining percentage of Chrysler that it did not already own. Of course, Fiat bought its initial chunk of Chrysler (from private equity firm [...]

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I have written frequently about the new bubble that has been descending on Silicon Valley (and the social media industry overall) during the past year. The growing bubble is painfully clear to me, even if some of the bigwig tech investors continue to deny its existence (“it’s different this time”…yeah right!). Even for those of us [...]

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