Author: Andy Wibbels

Everyone’s starting to wake up: Oprah Winfrey is one of the richest women in the world, and one of the most influential. Her imprimatur has helped the authors of “The Secret” sell 2 million books (and 1 million DVDs), putting it ahead of the new Harry Potter book on the Amazon bestseller list. In the […]

From LA Times: In his memo, Schultz noted that increasing the scale of Starbucks had led to a number of necessary corner-cuts: For instance, the introduction of “flavor-locked packaging” that has caused stores to lose their distinctive aroma, or the decision to install automatic espresso machines. “We solved a major problem in terms of speed […]

Big thanks to Anne Fisher for featuring Blogwild and me in her advice column in the most recent issue of Fortune Small Business. (it’s ‘and me’ right? not ‘and I’?)

Pam on the difference between glamour and purpose: Keeping clear with my life purpose and business vision, which I call drinking wheatgrass juice, will give me long-term physical, emotional and spiritual satisfaction. It is not a fast high, it is a lifetime of making smart, healthy choices. Succumbing to the seduction of a high-powered consulting […]

Imagine a government agency, in a bureaucratic foul-up, accidentally gives you a copy of a document marked “top secret.” And it contains a log of some of your private phone calls. You read it and ponder it and wonder what it all means. Then, two months later, the FBI shows up at your door, demands […]

From the inbox: I just listened to your call with Maryam Webster and found it fascinating. What really made me think was her method of having you try to “advance” to a level of the *feeling* of having what you want, rather than the thing itself. It sounded suspiciously to me like just getting the […]

Ugh: A total of 76.6% voted to amend the tribal constitution to limit citizenship to “blood” tribe members. Opponents said the amendment was racist and aimed at preventing those with African-American heritage from gaining tribal revenue and government funding.

Vandals in the virtual world Second Life smeared feces on the campaign headquarters of John Edwards as well as portraying the candidate in blackface. Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ’08” tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area […]

A country that feeds itself through the manufacture of war technology is bound to view peace, nonviolence and mercy as seditious concepts. It will create policies first and then people to fit its machines, finding wars to fight and creating killers to fight them. If that’s true of us, and I think it is, our […]

We need immigration reform. I think that there needs to be a comprehensive approach to reform. And, you know, reform has to encompass a lot of different aspects. We can’t just settle on a guest-worker program. We can’t just focus on enforcement. The reform aspect needs to encompass the people who are here, needs to […]