Conducting Mozart – part 2

The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra seems to get better each year thanks to the outstanding leadership of Sidney Rothstein, music director, and Sabina Slavin, president. I included some information about Saturday night’s concert (10-26-2002) in “my favorite concerts” list but I couldn’t begin to do justice in describing it. See a complete review by Courtenay Caublé […]

Lawyers In Charge

This evening I received a simple email from a person at a major global bank. It read…. “John, can you please forward to me a copy of your presentation that you presented at the IBM Conference in Paris. Much appreciated”. Appended at the end of the email was the following…. “The information contained in this […]

Dinners In The Bag

So many web sites are frustrating — two percent solutions. I have written about many of them both here in the weblog and also in my book, Net attitude. It is so refreshing to visit a web site that is intuitive, easy to use, meets your needs, and does so quickly — without wasting your […]

Telephone Photography

The trip from Agenda 2003 in Phoenix to Paris for the IBM CIO conference was fifteen hours door to door. I can’t say it was a fun trip but thankfully it was uneventful. The conference was actually at Disneyland Paris which is in Marne La Vallee, an interesting place unto itself (with a really neat […]

Design Management Institute

The Design Management Institute conducts four professional education conferences each year for senior management in the various design disciplines, strategic planning and marketing, who are interested in staying current on design issues, trends and best practices. This week’s conference was held in Chatham on Cape Cod. It was a pleasure for me to be invited […]