No, this isn’t another superlative-laden faux-business piece re-affirming Dov Charney’s status as Hipster Magnate Ad Infinitum. That’s been done. And done, and done. But I do plan to extol the successes of the polarizing American Apparel founder and his monochromatic empire—not for his V-necked influence on the Grizzly Bear crowd, but for his ability to craft a business that uses risk to its advantage as well as any in recent memory.    Read More

Earlier this month, Obama environmental jobs advisor Van Jones resigned amid growing furor over his signing of a 9/11 conspiracy petition in 2004....an examination of the rest of Jones’ career provides a case study in the rewards and pitfalls inherent to leadership risk.    Read More

In the past, we’ve urged executives to understand and avoid the blunders committed by multiple generations of American automaker execs ... What we haven’t highlighted—but which should be intuitive—is that a much larger class of professionals is studying precisely the same thing.   Read More