Jailed by Mussolini, Gramsci wrote 32 notebooks, written over 11years in prison but wasn’t published in English until the 1970s. If you hearthe word ‘hegemony’ it’s likely to have come from someone who has read, or justas likely not read but unknowingly quoting, Gramsci. As a Marxist his focus was on cultural and ideological forces insociety. 1971). MORE >>

Michael Sandel (who re-introduced TEDsters to the art of civilized debate in the talk above) makes a provocative argument in this month’s Atlantic : Without quite realizing it — without ever deciding to do so — we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. It’s a fascinating essay. MORE >>

Working through this book again and I thought I'd use this as a space to capture what I think are some of the most salient points from this really important book. Please feel free to chime in with you thoughts, comments, suggestions. . The first step to wisdom, as the Chinese say, is getting things by their right names."p4. Science is."driven MORE >>

Today, YouTube’s homepage spotlight features interviews with the creatives behind the campaigns that won TED’s Ads Worth Spreading —  an initiative to recognize and reward innovation, ingenuity and intelligence in advertising. AdsWorthSpreading advertising Business marketing MORE >>

I was talking with a journalist from Men's Health today about how bosses can become more aware of how they act and are seen by the people they lead, and how so many bosses (like most human-beings) can be clueless of how they come across to others.    The VP denied all this and called his people “thin-skinned wimps.”. MORE >>