At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he’d co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries. David Sax Read Quote
Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn’t been asked, ‘What’s your background?’ and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson’s ‘The Finkler Question’ forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that’s why it’s a must read, no matter what your background. David Sax Read Quote
Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves. David Sax Read Quote
Waiter trainers claim that an investment in education pays off very quickly for restaurants. David Sax Read Quote
In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space. David Sax Read Quote
Nearly every industry in America, from carbon trading to bricklaying, hosts its own back-slapping awards night. David Sax Read Quote
In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik’s Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries. David Sax Read Quote
I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember. David Sax Read Quote
Food trends don’t just drive the obvious things, like cupcakes or cronuts, but something as elemental as your daily cup of coffee. The way you have that coffee now is probably very different from the way you had it ten years ago, and it’ll probably be very different in ten years. That has a huge impact, culturally and economically. David Sax Read Quote
