Since mid-2009 I’ve written regularly for the American Express Small Business OPEN Forum Idea Hub, the content of which is managed by Federated Media. It began with Guy Kawasaki asking me to pen a few blogs for him. Then a few more.
By the end of 2009 I had written a few dozen, mostly focusing on creativity, innovation and design, which drove a lot of traffic to OPEN (due in no small part to Guy Kawasaki’s broadcasting.) AmEx/Federated approached me to write directly for them. Since January 2010 I’ve written a weekly column, usually appearing every Thursday. I reprint each column here on my blog so that you don’t have to navigate two sites in order to read the columns.
In September 2010, AmEx/Federated asked if I could write two columns per week. No easy task! Solution: We came up with the idea of a review of important books and articles by the “gurus” of business.
You can link to all of my OPEN content in reverse chronological HERE.
(NOTE: OPEN underwent a site redesign in early 2011, and unfortunately lost all of the social media metrics attached to each column…tweets, likes, links, comments, etc.)





