0160; Obviously his socio-economic class of origin didn't hold him back.  MIT economics professor Paul Krugman joins me in predicting that the usual class markers probably won't be shapers of success in the future. [Maybe 0160;[Maybe they never did.]  In a commentary for THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, Krugman  opines  that current economic trends have more impact on who succeeds and fails than what we Baby Boomers were led to believe.   The now-infamous John Michael Farren, accused of attempted murder of his wife, started out in the working class. 

0160; Come on, kiddo, this is America, the leader of capitalism.  writer, I toiled in the bowels of corporate America and for the past two decades performed consulting assignments for the lion's share of my income.  0160; Only now I'm experiencing some degree of economic success through my non-consulting writing.  Call it a hangover from our previous affluence.  0160; THE NEW YORK TIMES has an article by Randy Kennedy stating how little "artists" are earning during the recession. 

Verizon, Novartis, Dupont, Honeywell, KLM, and Bank of America had heard of him. 0160; His recent book, Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Ram Charan once was the best-kept secret in the business world.   0160; Only the CEOs of companies like GE, Verizon, him.  

A practitioner, like me, of the dismal science of economics--and it is even more dismal than usual these days--is not usually the first choice for providing inspiration and uplift.” This the equivalent of being asked to speak at the Detroit Economic Club and giving a 20-minute pitch for your company. Wendy Koop of Teach for America fell into this trap. Commencement season has largely come and gone at universities and colleges around the nation. And, once again, we’re left with the remains of speeches that ran the gamut from wonderful (thank you, Tom Brokaw.)

few years ago, CEO Rebecca Ryan put out a study called "Hot Jobs, Cool Communities" to highlight where knowledge workers most wanted to live. National media had a field day with this Top Ten list, and Rebecca was flooded with calls from a new market, cities interested in economic development. Five figure speaking engagements followed, along with lucrative consulting contracts that had flush economic development budgets.

If only Henry James were here to see America throwing off its Puritan background and its reverence for old-line institutions like Harvard.  0160; And maybe just being our oddball hypomanic selves [read John Gartner's book on that] will dig us out of this economic hole and make us the cock of the rock again. ...Tags: The naughty Craig Ferguson is eating Jay Leno's and Conan O'Brien's lunch, dinner and breakfast.  0160; NBC's ratings are plunging . 

0160; The reason the number of jobs hasn't increased with signs of economic recovery, reports Peter Goodman of THE NEW YORK TIMES, is the continued uncertainty.  0160; Every since America began, that's the way the working classes have been making a living. ...Tags: The game has changed from it's so tough to get a job to don't even bother looking.  0160; The ratio of job-hunters to jobs available is 6-to-1 [Source: Labor Department]. 

Gartner told us in THE HYPOMANIC EDGE that it was the frenetic mindset and all-over-the-place behavior which helped America become the dominant economic power.  0160; A whole bunch of misfits from around the world came to America, channeled that offbeat thinking and energy on steroids into survival and the rest is history.  The new success brand is: Poised.  0160; On "The Good Wife" Alicia has that down cold. 

0160; After so much bottom-fishing in writing and economic angst, my attitude mirrors that of Alfred E. Perhaps Corporate America did not suffer quite enough during The Great Recession.  The corporate zeitgeist, reports Clare Ansberry in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, may be risk-averse.  0160; But it's a lot different for individuals, especially the bunch of us who have been left with nothing to lose. 

0160; But, eventually, when we sense we're on more solid ground in our personal finances and in the overall economic situation, we're going to demand a political conversation that doesn't seem to assume we've been asleep during the last 15 years or so.  0160; But things in America could be better than they have been - for all of us.  In this era of blowhards [Tom Wolf used to call them "mau-maus"] we're shutting down to listening to any of them.  0160; Daily life has become too hard.