Word of the Day – Stormannsgalskap

Stormannsgalskap is a Norwegian word which means great men’s madness. Our only encounter with the word so far has been in Adam Lashinsky’s recent book Inside Apple. Lashinsky borrows the term’s extension to the business world from former Harvard professor Richard Tedlow who used it to refer to extraordinary leaders who create great enterprises. In […]

Halal Food Envelops NYC

New York City is catholic (in the non-religious sense) in its embrace of different cultures, food and people. And sure enough of Halal too. These days it seems as if every direction we turn in New York City there’s a food establishment proclaiming its food to be Halal. The other day as we were walking […]

Times of India Tweeks a Junk Mag for iPad

Even the most successful of businesses sometimes make asses of themselves with incomprehensibly stupid decisions. Yesterday, it was the turn of India’s top newspaper group Times of India to display its jackass colors. Not content with putting out iPad apps for its two flagship newspapers, Times of India and Economic Times, Times Internet Limited, the […]

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