I am on a serious roll with business novels. This time it is the newly-published Simplifying Innovation by Michael A. Dalton. The basic idea behind this book is to apply Theory of Constraints ideas to the process of innovation. Overall, I thought the book did a good job of putting it all together ...

Pat Hewitt, THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario police spearheading a broad investigation of a military commander facing murder and sexual assault charges said Tuesday they’re fielding calls from other forces and families of victims of crime about so-called cold cases. Col. Russell Williams, 46, is ...

Not all copyright holders are as understanding as New Moon director Chris Weltz, who expressed his displeasure with an attempt to prosecute a woman who recorded three minutes of footage of New Moon when the movie was running in the background at her daughter’s birthday. Photographer Mike Hipple rece ...

Toyota's Gas Pedal Recall Has Insurers on Alert Link: http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=158875

Do you make them? I don't, though I do seek improvement every year. Here are my before-and-after photographs - an 80-lb. weight loss. Here is one of my best friends, who turns 40 this year. He looks better at 40 than when I first met him - when he was 27. This year, your life, your soul, your self, ...

Army Sgt. Khadim Alkanani nearly lost his foot, and he definitely lost his career, following a June 2005 shooting in Baghdad. A member of the U.S. Special Forces, Sgt. Alkanani says the men who shot him were civilian contractors working...

Mike Masnik of the Techdirt blog asks why shouldn't jurors be allowed to do a little online research outside the courtroom. His view is since jurors come to the table with their outside experiences, biases and prejudices, what harm would it do to allow the smart ones to use a little technology to ai ...

The Justice Department wants to convince a federal appeals court in Washington that the accounting firm Deloitte should be forced to give up tax documents stemming from auditing services provided to Dow Chemical Company. Judge Richard Leon of the U.S....

By John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

The concept of exchanging a deed & keys for money still remains the same, but the steps to the crazy tribal dance we perform while helping buyers buy and sellers sell keep changing.Whereas closings ten years ago could best be thought of as graceful arm in arm waltzes and minuets, todays closings ar ...