Today is Labor Day, a holiday that was born in the tumult, social upheaval, and violence of the industrial revolution in the late 1800s. It was a time of boom-bust business cycles that left employees largely […]

I’ve spent much of my time over the past three years writing a book – Xbox Revisited:  A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal  – which amongst other things describes a new discipline I […]

The following guest blog post originally appeared on Maria Shriver’s website. Finding Life’s Act II: How I Went From “Chief Xbox Officer” to “Civic Engineer” We all remember being asked, “What do you want to […]

I’m a committed believer in the importance of sports to drive important, positive social change (see The Sporting…Life).  Sport is a paradigm for so many things in life including leadership, perseverance, teamwork, commitment, graciousness, and […]

If you’ve read any of my other blog posts (see Reform Interruptist or United We Stand) it is quite clear that I am passionate and patriotic about the United States.  My ancestors immigrated to the […]

I’ve spent the last few weeks giving a number of speeches to audiences both large and small on subjects ranging from business strategy to civic engineering.  This flurry of activity got started with a luncheon […]

In A Taxing Point of View, I argued for a broad array of tax reforms designed to simplify the tax structure, increase transparency, and create a better framework for the government’s business model. I closed […]