Chicken Soup for the Soul rereleases the original bestseller, with 20 bonus stories for the next 20 years COS COB, Conn. – It’s been twenty years since the release of the original Chicken Soup for the Soul and it continues to change lives, after selling more than 8 million copies just in the U.S. […]
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Produced by Tracy Oppenheimer for ReasonTV, camera by Alex Manning. “People who play video games have much better computational skills, much better logic skills, much better search and cognitive skills than kids who don’t,” says Nolan Bushnell, author of Finding the Next Steve Jobs, founder of Brainrush, and the entrepreneur often described as the “father
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Pablos, and Nathan Myhrvold for Ieee.org Have you seen a vending machine lately? Most are still pretty basic: Put in some cash and out comes a can or package. But the most advanced models have computer processors and touch-screen displays that let you customize your order to a remarkable degree. Touch-screen drink
By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Dave Logan for CBS MoneyWatch (MoneyWatch) Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, wrote, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” He was referring to virtually anything, and his wisdom has made companies measurement obsessed. Like anything taken to an extreme, measuring things at the wrong time, or
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By Laura Entis for Inc.com Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari and Jobs’ first boss, tells Inc. what not to do in a job interview if you want to hire creative talent. Back in 1974, Steve Jobs didn’t look like your typical successful job applicant: a 19-year-old college dropout, with a tenuous commitment to basic hygiene,
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Jill Belconis as seen on Lean In. I’ve continually been presented with the opportunity to be the “first woman” throughout my career. When I graduated from college, I was the first woman hired to work in sales at IBM’S data processing division in my branch. Many skeptics didn’t believe that a
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By Kelly Clay for Forbes, and CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, James Sun James Sun – CEO of Pirq and former finalist on Donald Trump‘s reality TV series, The Apprentice – recently spoke to a full house at the Seattle coworking space, Thinkspace about becoming an entrepreneur. Sun, who has secured millions in funding as an entrepreneur, spoke not only about Trump’s hair (it’s real) but
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By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Keith Chambers I got an email last week from Ricky Farmer telling me his sales have increased 250% since I repositioned his business about a year ago. He expressed his gratitude very eloquently, which put a big smile on my face. At the same time, I realized I had completed
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By Anna Heim for TheNextWeb Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell was one of the main attractions at Campus Party Brasil this year. In front of a numerous and admiring audience, he recalled the early days of video gaming, in which Atari undoubtedly played a central role. His keynote was full of anecdotes, several of which involved his former employee Steve
By CAL Entertainment Exclusive Speaker, Paul Smith The best lesson I ever learned about financial management came from a guy whose budget I was supposed to keep tabs on. In 1997 I had just taken the job of Finance Manager at manufacturing plant in California. If you’ve ever worked at a high-efficiency plant, you’ll recognize
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