Keith Haring and the Membership Economy

Keith Haring had a lot to teach about principles of the Membership Economy.  Yesterday, I went to the exhbit "Keith Haring and the Political Line" at the De Young museum.  You may know that Haring created hundreds of chalk drawings on blank ad...

Membership, The Circle and Superusers

I was an English major in college and to this day I am an obsessive fiction reader. One of the best books I read in 2014 was Dave Eggars’ The Circle[i]. The Booklist review said, “Most of us imagine totalitarianism as something imposed upon us—but what if we’re...

Call me! Phones vs Texts.

My daughters love their iPhones, respond to my texts instantaneously, email intermittently and the older one will frequently like my status on Facebook, where we are "friends" (why is "friend" the only allowed facebook relationship, and why is...

Stanford GSB WIN Conference for Women

It's hard to believe the Women's Initiative Network Conference happened 2 weeks ago already. As part of the conference hosting team, I spent a lot of time with the organizers trying to develop an agenda that would appeal to a broad range of female GSB...