A conversation with Logica North America CEO.

Logica North America CEO Amanda Mesler on recent outsourcing trends that de-emphasize offshore outsourcing.

Logica North America CEO Amanda Mesler discovered that her best performing salesperson was forging expense reports. A mild punishment would have been insufficient.

Logica North America CEO Amanda Mesler insists that cost savings should be focused internally, never on services used by customers.

While downsizing is business-as-usual for many companies, the Logica North America CEO Amanda Mesler also encourages work hiatuses that retain talented employees for when prosperity returns.

Robert Thurman believes organized religions inevitably become tools of cultural power rather than paths to personal salvation.

A conversation with the Jey Tsong Kappa Professor of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and the President of Tibet House U.S.

Robert Thurman explains the Dalai Lama’s importance to Asia’s stability.

East hasn’t met West, according to Robert Thurman. Both authentic Western and Eastern thought have been subsumed by a cancerous popular culture.

Robert Thurman contends that true happiness occurs when we’re least aware of it.

Jean, member of the legendary group The Fugees and Hip-Hop producer, talks about his childhood in Haiti, post-race politics, and working again with Lauryn Hill.

Record your music in the basement, Jean says.

Celebrities are entitled to self-expression, too.

“Hurry up, Lauryn!”

Jean’s music is as eclectic as his influences.

Jean left Haiti at the age of nine only to end up the country’s roving ambassador.

Duke University Professor Cathy N. Davidson says scholars in the humanities need to unlearn old ways of teaching and publishing.

Bill Scheft discusses the differences between comedy fiction and monologue writing, and his latest novel, “Everything Hurts.”

Bill Scheft doubts the political influence of Late Night comedy.

Don’t believe Larry David when he tells you he doesn’t resemble his screen persona, says his friend Bill Scheft.

Bill Scheft on the lifestyle of a Letterman writer.

Bad grades in Latin class led Bill Scheft to a career in comedy.

A conversation with the novelist and David Letterman Show writer.

A conversation with the technology forecaster and essayist.

Companies need to get better at explaining to employees the intrinsic risks of their jobs, according to forecaster and essayist Paul Saffo.

Paul Saffo analyses the shift in power from producers in the industrial economy, to marketers in the consumer economy. He predicts that new “economic actors” who create and consume simultaneously […]

Forecaster and essayist Paul Saffo encourages customer service departments to only make promises they can keep.

To avoid missing opportunities in a down market, Paul Saffo advises business leaders to focus less on what their company is doing wrong, more on what it can do differently.

Paul Saffo says technology shouldn’t be exploited to just cut costs or do old things more efficiently, it should be a catalyst for doing new things in entirely different ways.

Paul Saffo’s recommendation to companies conserving cash: don’t confuse the short-term financial crisis with long-term trends.