1. Building your own iPad and iPhone apps just got easier
2. Has the internet “hamsterized” journalism?
3. Conan O’Brien’s amazing Dartmouth commencement speech
4. Apple worth more than Microsoft, HP and Dell COMBINED
5. Nine reasons your company should use brand advocates 
6. Winning, Losing and Collaboration7. Tips on successfully blogging from home
8. Google acquires Admeld 
9. Five tough questions entrepreneurs have to ask about growth
10. Lonely Employees and Productivity

If you are at all curious about the invisible flow of on-line information you need to see and hear this TED talk by Eli Pariser. It will make you take a second look at the Internet and your place within the new world it is shaping.
Oh and I should also note that I stumbled across this video in my Facebook feed today. Trust me, after you watch the video this seemingly minor bit of information will become much more than just a …

What happened to GM? It used to be said that “what’s good for GM is good for America” (actually, it was a rather arrogant former CEO of GM who said it but I don’t have the time to mythbust). Of course, now it seems that GM is just symptomatic of everything that has gone wrong with America over the past 50 years. Is there a chance things at GM could turn around? Is there a chance they …

1.  The Business of Humor: I Can Has Cheezburger.
2. I know it sounds odd but this is a must read and surprisingly funny story about women and street harassment
3. Five Big Bookkeeping Tips
4. iPhone 5 shipping in September
5. TV shopping networks can teach you about making money
6. The Management Feedback Gap
7. Amazon bringing Kindle to 11000 libraries
8. Even with Verizon selling them, AT&T iPhone sales chugging right along
9. Beliefs that are crippling writers
10. Get Better …

Here are seven stories from the past seven days about social media and leadership. Enjoy!
1.       Google bets $20,000 you can’t hack Chrome
2.       For Superbowl weekend, a story about Charles Woodson of the Packers
3.       Deepak Chopra talks about the Soul of Leadership
4.       Some thoughts about leadership in view of the troubles and changes in Egypt
5.       Taco Bell uses humor to cure its image problem
6.       Third Annual Social Media Week kicks off
7.       Stop Playing Defense on …

When speaking of leadership we often talk about vision and passion, and the dramaturgy of presentation. But more important than any of these, is a well articulated sense of sincerity.  In the final analysis, leadership is about personal credibility. It’s about your ability to convey to people not only the feeling of “been there done that” but also a sense of being able to convey to people that you have:
• Positional Authority: That you speak from …