Category: Columns

  1. Relational Jumper-Cables: For Dead Batteries

    Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than in judgment at how they…

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  2. The ESG Wars: How We Got Here, How We Get Out

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    Everybody is stuck in this left-versus-right traditional dynamic, but today, all over the world, it’s centrist versus extremist. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid The battle among investors…

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  3. Cultivating Resilience for Today’s New Strategic Risk: Stakeholder Conflict

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    The best time to build a local fire station is before your house catches fire. In the past month three leaders – education, faith, healthcare –…

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  4. ​​How do the economics of publishing work – from the customer’s and the publisher’s point of view?

    Part of a publisher’s work, whether directly or via a consultant or employee, is locating the cheapest place in the world for getting work done, whether…

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  5. Three years since I made up my mind to enter the world of publishing

    It was almost exactly three years ago that I decided, in memory of my wife, to take the plunge into publishing. I was 70 years old,…

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  6. Uvalde: Time for Brave Healers and Courageous Risk-Takers

    This is on you.  Beto O’Rourke, gubernatorial candidate confronting Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Uvalde press conference I can’t believe that you’re a sick son of a…

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  7. A couple of questions regarding your work going into other languages

    An author who is a friend, but who I have *not* published, writes to me for advice: “Since you are a publisher, I thought I’d check…

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  8. Why Amazon is Essential, but relatively Useless for New Books!

    Before I entered the publishing industry in November 2019 – and, actually, even till relatively recently! – I suffered from an illusion about modern developments in…

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  9. Understanding what is happening in the world of publishing right now – 1

    If, before the Covid pandemic, the sales of new titles to old titles were sort of equally 50% each, during the pandemic the sales of new…

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  10. Announcing A New Columnist

    I am delighted to announce that two websites, www.homeanddiaspora.com and christnotchristianity.com, are merging with our site. Shri Frank Raj (the owner of both sites) therefore becomes the latest new Columnist…

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