by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 24, 2009
Sometimes you think you have something important to say, and before you know whether you can convince anyone in the publishing community that it’s of value, you decide that you’re going to go ahead and write it anyway. That’s how I felt two years ago...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 2, 2009
Joel Makower and Daniel Goleman‘s debate in Joel’s recent column on the likely effect of how “unfettered information about the environmental impacts of our world (will) smoke out the bad guys and help the good guys win,” is a wonderful and...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 6, 2009
I recently finished reading a remarkable book by Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. It makes an unusually tough-minded assertion: I am immoral. I already know that in a world where so few have so much and so many have so little,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 22, 2008
James Gustave Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a Yale University dean, and a former White House advisor, has written a great book that everyone concerned with the fate of the world must read. Speth takes all of us to task — business,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 12, 2008
Recently the New York Times reviewed The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, by Steven Greenhouse, a reporter for the newspaper. The book, published by Knopf last week, examines how companies like Fed Ex and Walmart bleed workers to reap hundreds of...
