...in which we continue ascertaining how one retires while still working...

We've got some very serious tricksters here. Hang on to your hair. We're about to get granular -- in a very, very good way.

JS works for a major health-care provider, which I find evocative. He has invented a...

Just a little story from the dark edge of the continent.

I was staying for the past few days at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. It's a really nice place. A few years ago, it had gone kind of tatty, but they implemented a big revamp not long ago and did...

Fortune's Stanley Bing continues to sift through the responses to his Executricks Contest, in which he called on Huffington Post readers to submit their finest tricks for retiring while still on the job. This is the third installment of responses; the initial contest post can be accessed here, and...

It's clear some very smart people cruise Huffington Post, already practiced in the art of retiring while they are still working.

CW of Brooklyn, New York, observes that "a good Memory: knowing everything about your work even if you're not really doing it is wholly underrated. When you know a...

Several weeks ago I began a contest to search out which of you could offer the best tricks that might enable he or she who is serious, crafty and determined enough to retire while one is still working.

The response was highly satisfactory from two standpoints. First, quite a...

As most of you know, I am sure, we are now in the midst of Mogulmania Week at the Herb Allen conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. At that pristine and august location, business honchos meet, break bread, and attempt to keep their gasbags aloft in rooms drained of available oxygen...

I just spent a few minutes on a variety of websites. I'm not going to single them out, not because they're not good, of course they are, they're quite deft and professional and excellent in every way.

They just made me want to kill myself.

Now, as lachrymose as I...

I've read a bunch this morning about how we're all losing our consumer confidence. It's no wonder. I don't have to tell you the reasons. People have confidence when they have a feeling of stability. When the bedrock under your feet starts to shift, you lose that confidence. Between

News comes that the Associated Press, in one attempt to define the nature of content in the new media, is looking to charge online writers for use of their material -- as little as five words, which would cost $12.50.

That would mean that the link I just provided...

I go to a lot of meetings with a lot of bullsh**ters. One of the main topics of such people in a host of different businesses is a twofold argument with which they amuse themselves and each other. Here are its two prongs:

-- My business is coming up the...

Today we begin a unique event on this site, which is normally a quiet and dignified place and relatively unused to the clang of swords and the sweat and smoke of organizational politics, let alone the art of self-promotion.

It attends the publication of my new investigation of workplace life,...

Two events in the media happened recently that gave me, as a manager of other people, a cold shudder down the back of what's left of my spine.

The first was the publication of Scott McClellan's book What Happened. You can argue all day about whether Mr. McClellan was a)...

It is possible that the problem with the world right now, or at least one of the problems with the world, which seems to have its fair share at this point, is that people are required to give their opinions on matters that are relatively obscure, and then, due to...

Boulevardiers and professional business diners throughout the New York City area have been chattering this week about a recent piece in the New York Times that announced, once and for all, who had been elected the Mayor of Michael's. That throne went to Joe Armstrong, formerly of ABC and now...

I don't know why everybody is pussyfooting around about this. I think it's safe to say that, with oil blasting up to $200-a-barrel sometime soon, another inexorable millstone suddenly sails into view. I want to be the first to say it. Remember where you read it first.

To hell with...

To those unsophisticated in the business arts, the behavior of Wall Street and its analysts may seem arbitrary, based on emotion, greed, self-aggrandizement and a narrow understanding of the true interests of organizations and the customers they serve. It takes deep study to perceive otherwise, in fact. Just this morning,...

I understand the purveyors of malware, sort of, the same way I get why people spraypaint walls or put chewing gum where people can step on it. At their most virulent, I suppose the digital vandals aren't that far from the anarchists who placed bombs in train stations, ostensibly as...

1. I like reading all the articles in the normally sycophantic Apple (AAPL) magazines promising to fix the 10 Things You Hate About Leopard.

2. I like to think about the meetings they had at Apple, in which the Development people fought with the Marketing people over whether the product...

In about a month, my new book will be published. It's called Executricks: or How To Retire While You're Still Working. Compact, entertaining and wise, the book will teach you how to live like an executive even if you aren't one, cleanly, legitimately, creating while you are still in mid-career...

As some of you might have been able to tell, yesterday's blog was not a random exercise. It was written in the near dark just after dawn, as I looked forward to a day that was to include a meeting that began with breakfast and ended well after lunch. The...