What goes on in Sun Valley, stays in Sun Valley.  Those are the ground rules and I may be one of the few attendees of this, the best organized and most rewarding business conference, to respect the wishes of our hosts.  However, without...

Some of the readers of this blog have asked me why I do not write more about business issues that directly affect my work at Thomson Reuters. This is a very fair question, especially since I find the issues raised by the digital content markets we serve...

British Airways, which is probably the company I know best as a customer after my various broadband providers, recently went through a period of pretty savage attacks in the UK media for their serious operational problems opening Terminal 5 at Heathrow. ...

I have been reading an excellent book,   I am a Strange Loop , by Douglas Hofstadter which represents a rare departure for me from the land of good fiction.  Hofstadter, who is a Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science...

The well-worn advice that polite guests should avoid politics and religion at the dinner table surely must apply with renewed vigor to the chief executive of an information company which prides itself upon, and is constitutionally bound to maintain,...

This year my friend and internet ad pioneer Stephen Klein did not come to the Chelsea Flower Show. This was a shame not only because I like to spend time with Steve, but also because it reduced by 50 percent the number of attendees at the Show's opening...

This post responds to a couple of comments on prior entries.  First, there was a request to comment upon emerging markets in general and Brazil's Vasco da Gama football club in particular; second, another reader pointed out that the Thomson Reuters...

I thought I'd share with the readers of this blog a brief thought-piece I wrote explaining why Thomson Reuters is focused on providing what we call "intelligent information."  The subject is a bit closer to my "day" job than I usually like to write...

As has probably been evident, I have been pretty busy over the past few weeks, attending to the birth of an extraodinary new company.  OKAY, I am partial, and the company is not exactly "new" as Thomson Reuters is the offspring of two proud parents...

I was not long in the workforce before I started  hearing a lot about a certain mythic state of equipoise called the "work-life balance."  The core message seemed to be that "work" was something odious to be minimized, because the only worthwhile...

I continue to learn interesting lessons observing my kids playing with technology and new media.  My son Walter, age 8, has suddenly woken up to the joy of sports for young boys.  He plays soccer and tennis, skis and swims well, and in general...

According to a recent book The Geography of Bliss by former New York Times reporter, Eric Weiner, the British rank among the least happy people on earth.  Weiner writes: "In Britain, the happy are few and suspect.  For the British, happiness...

In The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explained why it is so difficult for large, successful companies to innovate and grow new businesses. Professor Christensen's insightful analysis is no longer controversial.  We understand why a large...

I gave the follwing speech this week at the Software Information Industry Association.  I chose to be intentionally provocative setting out an argument that traditional consumer media companies (newspapers, broadcast TV, etc) should not be publicly...

The third party service that hosts my blog has been down for a couple of days, so I am only now posting items from last week's Annual Meeting in Davos.  The mood was a bit somber despite sunny weather in the Alps.  One commentator observed that...

It has become fashionable to deride the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos as an endless talkfest or worse, a secret cabal of evil tyrants bent on controlling the world.  For several years, violent protesters sought to disrupt the Meeting...

I have been lucky over the year-end holidays to spend a lot of time with my eight- and nine- year olds. The single best part of vacation for me is not to be bound by a rigid schedule and not to have the Blackberry's vibrating syncopations set the...

Much has been written about how the music business is in terminal decline and how there is no longer any money to be made in identifying, nurturing, and recording talented musicians, and then distributing and otherwise commercializing their...

Over the past several years, some in the British media have suggested that I should have better things to do than spend my time on Facebook or other social networking or web services.  I would certainly agree with them if this amounted to more...

I am a big Facebook fan.  I like the simplicity of the model; I admire the openness of the platform; and I think Mark Zuckerberg really grasped the natural tendency of humans to affiliate themselves in groups, academic, professional or social. ...

This morning Reuters hosted a very timely and important discussion on the impact of the ongoing credit/liquidity crisis on the financial stability of major economies.  After a warm introduction by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Alan Greenspan, former...

For those of us who are life-long Mets fans, it has been painful to see them self-destruct in September.  However, the eternal optimist in me is not yet thinking of next season.  Instead I am already enjoying the thought of a calm month...

Innovation through the application of leading edge technologies has always played an important part in Reuters business, and it remains for me a cornerstone of business strategy in the digital information market.  I have often said that Reuters...

Some of you have noticed that I have not posted in a long time.  I am not dead, nor is there a conspiracy by the Reuters PR or Legal Departments to silence me.  The truth is that I have been very busy working on the Thomson-Reuters acquisition...

On Thursday, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, of the Reuters Baghdad bureau were killed in the eastern part of the city.  This brings to six, the number of Reuters journalists and staffers that have  been killed...