747 July 29 None Andy Cohen "Turns out a stitch in time does not save nine. I'd like to apologize to the nine people who drowned while I was crocheting. This is The Colbert Report." 6095
, Follow the Other Hand: A Remarkable Fable That Will Energize Your Business, Profits, and Life
[2010-07-28 12:00:00] Just how important is food to the stability of a society? We'll examine the Romans and Mayans, modern challenges in the United States and China and more this hour with agricultural expert Evan D. G. Fraser, co-author of the new book "Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations" (Free Press, 2010).
CHARLIE ROSE: Jeff Bezos is here. He is the founder and CEO of
Amazon.com, the country’s largest online retailer. The company’s
electronic reading device, the Kindle, has sold in the millions since its
debut in 2007. Amazon recently announced it is now selling more digital
books than hardcover books for the first time in its history.
Although sales of the Kindle continue to grow, the device faces
increased competition from tablet computers such as the Apple iPad. Last
week Amazon announced second quarter profit rose 45 percent from the same
quarter last year and its revenue grew 41 percent. Amazon’s stock has
since fallen because analysts expected even greater earnings performance.
I am pleased to have Jeff Bezos back at this table.
746 July 28 Ownership Society Elon Musk 6094
, Elon Musk
, Charlie Rose - Alexander Karp / Elon Musk (August 11, 2009)
, Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space
, The PayPal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, And the Rest of Planet Earth
745 July 27 Kevin Kline 6093
, In & Out
, Dave
, De-Lovely: The Cole Porter Story
744 July 26 Hephzibah Anderson "Russia has elected its first black official. Shame on you, Russia! They prefer to be called African-Americans. This is The Colbert Report." 6092
, Chastened: No More Sex in the City
Complex friendships formed the core of the Fab Four. After the group split up, those personal and business relationships grew competitive and even antagonistic. Today, author Peter Doggett joins us for a look at their post-Beatles careers, the subject his book You Never Give Me Your Money.Download the podcast here. See also: The Beatles: After the Break-Up 1970-2000 : A Day-By-Day Diary (Kalmus Edition)
, Mystical One: George Harrison: After the Breakup of the Beatles (Essay series)
, The Winding Road: The Real Story Behind the Breakup of the Beatles
In thinking about my presentation next week for the ACLEA annual meeting about “How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law … and CLE,” I suddenly remembered that I had once written a magazine article on this very topic. Way back in 1995, I wrote, Empowered or Enslaved: Technology’s Effect on the Legal Profession (PDF), the cover story for the December 2005/January 2006 issue of the magazine Law Office Computing. On one hand, the article reads like a time capsule. For example, one lawyer I interviewed as an Internet success story was Greg Siskind, who went on to write the popular book, The Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. At the time I wrote the article, his practice was little more than a year old and already proving a success. But some of what lawyers said then about the downside of technology is no less true today. Consider this quote from Philip Dubois, a sole practitioner in Colorado: Technology is a double-edged sword. One result is that we have great new tools with which to do our jobs. But at the same time, the pace of our work — and therefore of our lives — has increased with each new tool. I’m not convinced that’s a good thing in the law. It’s wonderful in science, in engineering, in education and in the media. But law is supposed to be a deliberative practice. When we get to the point where we as lawyers are constantly trying to keep up with the pace, we lose that deliberative part of the law. Wise and prescient words from Dubois.
CHARLIE ROSE: What is creativity? How do you define it? Where does
it come from? Can it be taught? Is there a science to it? These are just
some of the questions explored in the cover story in "Newsweek" magazine
last week. It was called "Creativity in America, the Science of Innovation
and how to Reignite our Imaginations."
There’s a resent IBM poll of 1,500 CEO’s. They identified
creativity as the number one leadership competency of the future.
For years conventional wisdom has held that America’s creative age
would ensure its global primacy. But maybe not. A new study indicates
that creativity scores among both children and adults have consistently
inched downward for the last 20 years.
CHARLIE ROSE: Rick Bayless is here. In 1987 after six years of
research in kitchens across Mexico he published his first cookbook. It was
called "Authentic Mexican." "New York Times" food critic Craig Claiborne
called it at that time "The greatest contribution to the Mexican table
imaginable."
That same year Bayless opened his first restaurant that has become one
of America’s most famous Mexican eateries. Today he commands a food empire
that includes three Chicago restaurants, a television series, seven cook
books, a line of food products, and now a new radio series. Here is a look
at his PBS program, "Mexico, One Plate at a Time."
, Fiesta at Rick's: Fabulous Food for Great Times with Friends
, Mexico One Plate At A Time
CHARLIE ROSE: In 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones scraped together $100,000
to set up the first hedge fund. Sixty years later in 2009, the top 25
hedge fund managers earned a collective $25.3 billion.
Sebastian Mallaby’s new book called "More Money than God" argues the
future of finance lies in the history of hedge funds. Mallaby is a senior
fellow for International Economics and he’s a columnist in for the
"Washington Post." I’m pleased to have him here at this table. Welcome.
SEBASTIAN MALLABY: Great to be with you.
743 July 8 Arturo Rodriguez 6091
, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
764 September 8 Over & Out Raymond T. Odierno, Joe Biden (shooting a 'C' with a tank gun into a wall) "Jay Leno doesn't have one of these. This is The Colbert Report." 6112
, Raymond T. Odierno
,
Stan Cox, author of Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer), and Michael Clendenin, Con Edison spokesman, talk about electricity use in the city during the hot summer months and alternatives to turning up your air conditioner.
742 July 7 Steve Carell 6090
, Despicable Me (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)
, Date Night
CHARLIE ROSE: Stephen Kinzer is here. He is the former "New York
Times" foreign correspondent and the author of several books including
"Overthrow" and "Crescent and Star." His new book makes the case that the
United States should build a new relationship with Turkey and Iran. It is
called "Reset -- Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future."
I am pleased to have him here back at this table. Welcome.
STEPHEN KINZER: Great to be with you.
CHARLIE ROSE: Talk to me about Turkey.
STEPHEN KINZER: I think the key to Turkey’s success as a nation has
been that in its 85 years of existence, it has managed to change with the
times. Turkey was founded as an authoritarian country at the time when the
idea of dictatorship was very prominent.
After World War II, the world didn’t like dictatorship anymore. We
wanted democracy. Turkey was a one-party state that voluntarily
transformed itself into a multi-party state with an election. And then the
party that had been in power since the founding of the republic lost and
they left power freely.
, All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
741 July 6 Garret Keizer 6089
, Help: The Original Human Dilemma
CHARLIE ROSE: Joining me now to talk about summer books is Lev Grossman, author and book critic for "Time" magazine. I’m pleased to have him at this table to introduce us to what you might be reading this summer. So welcome.
LEV GROSSMAN: Thank you.
CHARLIE ROSE: Where do we start? What do you think will be the big commercial success this summer that we’ll see everybody reading on the beach?
LEV GROSSMAN: Well, I believe and also kind of hope that it will be Justin Cronin’s "The Passage." Justin Cronin is probably not a writer who you are intimately familiar with. He is what call is called these days a midlist literary writer who a couple years ago had an inspiration for a horrific vampire apocalypse novel, and he wrote it.
739 July 1 Manny Howard 6087
In his new book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," Michael Lewis tells the story of several key players in the subprime mortgage crisis who understood what was happening to the market and were able to make huge amounts of money in the transactions. He is also the author of "The Blind Side" which was the basis of a 2009 movie that won Sandra Bullock an Academy Award for Best Actress. He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.Listen to the interview here. See also: Liar's Poker
, The Blind Side (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)
CHARLIE ROSE: Alan Furst is here. His work as a spy novelist is
often compared with masters of the genre like Graham Greene and John Le
Carre. His latest novel is "Spies of the Balkans." I'm pleased to have him
here. Here we are set in Greece.
ALAN FURST: Correct.
CHARLIE ROSE: We have a police captain.
ALAN FURST: Police official.
CHARLIE ROSE: Who has to make a decision. War is coming.
, Night Soldiers: A Novel
, The Polish Officer: A Novel
, Kingdom of Shadows
738 June 30 None Nicholas G. Carr None 6086
, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
, Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
, IT Doesn't Matter-Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard Business Review
, 