UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

In the thick of the triangular feud between Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno and NBC, one of the nighttime word warriors decided to cut to the chase and reveal what was going on behind the curtain.

It’s all due to the Cancer Of Power. Take someone, nearly anyone, and put them on a throne, and those who pass by will tell you they are a genius. How many men and women worship every word Prince Charles utters even though this man, this entire family, its centuries of power notwithstanding, has never accomplished a single thing.

As the only biographer of Carl Icahn, Mark Stevens has watched Icahn morph himself from a Greenmailer/Corporate Raider to a Shareholder Activist over the span of several years. But it is Mark Stevens who has had endless conversations with Icahn at dinner and on the tennis court and he warns people not to turn their [...]