Joel Brokaw

With the U.S. economy beginning to rebound, it is high time for businesses both big and small to get proactive and clean house of wasteful and counterproductive practices. Nancy Slomowitz, business consultant and author of the new book Work Zone Madness: Surviving and Rising Above Workplace Dysfunction, urges companies to...

On April 17, 1967, I made my first and last appearance on national network television on the premiere of The Joey Bishop Show. It also marked the first time that most Americans heard the name Regis Philbin (he was Joey's sidekick). This late night talk show on ABC was created...

On Thursday, May 19, 2011, there was a party on the set of Entertainment Tonight on the CBS lot in Studio City to say farewell to its host of twenty-nine years, Mary Hart. "I've never seen anything like this," said one of the crew members, a sound engineer, as he...

Several years ago, Nancy Slomowitz was so fed up that she wanted to walk away from the highly successful and profitable corporation she had built. Her enterprise, Executive Management Associates, has helped redesign the operations of major governmental agencies to eliminate wasteful practices, work more efficiently, and run more profitably....

There's a grainy photo I have on my desk that I hurriedly took of two monkeys I encountered in India about a decade ago. It is not a beautiful photograph--no risk that it will be published in National Geographic. Nor were these...

There has been much written about the remarkable contributions of Dorothy Height since her passing on Tuesday. Many have remarked that she was not widely known by the public, how she worked quietly behind the scenes and as a matter of principle did not force her way into photo-ops with...

A nutritionist told me the other day that the biggest problem for the millions of overweight Americans was not the "bad" food they were eating. It wasn't the cookies, chips, ice cream and junk food's fault, she said. Rather, the culprit as she explained it was our unconscious behavior and...

The newest flavor-of-the-month in the nutritional supplement world is curcumin, aka turmeric, that yellow powdery herb used in India for centuries to give savory curry dishes their golden color. Proponents cite exciting research about this powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. They claim curcumin in its optimized form is a healthier...

The media was quick to jump on research findings released earlier this month how antioxidant vitamins prevented "health-promoting effects of physical exercise in humans." According to the report, the vitamin C and E supplements tested appeared to nullify the spike in oxidation after exercise that improves insulin sensitivity and may...

I didn't need to go to Cleveland, Bill Cosby told me on the phone. He was going there to speak at a conference for parents put on by the local school district to deal with the high school dropout crisis. As I have done over the past several years, I...

There's a little ray of hope on the global warming front, thanks to the unlikely rediscovery of a forgotten engine, a rusty artifact dating back to the earliest days of the industrial revolution.

In desert regions around the world, large parabolic shaped mirrors are beginning to crop up that may...

On the morning of March 24, a few hours before President Obama was asked by a reporter at a press conference what sacrifices he expected the American people to make, I got a better answer to that question from an unexpected source. It gave me faith in the President's optimism...