The Richwood Report

People who work in industry know that a lot of trade magazines get delivered but only a few get read. They are nearly 100% advertising and advertising hot air thinly disguised as articles. These are the magazines salesmen see in waiting rooms. Only the desperately bored read them. The editor of Machine Design magazine, Ron Khol, draws readers into his magazine with a thought-provoking editorial every issue. I read the editorial first and then scan the rest of the magazine for the latest in machine components and controls. He sometimes has a "Write Your Own Editorial" article full of provocative statistics or helpful professional business advice like "How to be a Good Manager".
Now there is a Machine Design Blog, where readers can read not only read the comments of the editor, but respond and read the comments of others if they wish. You can also use the Forums and Blogs link for other discussion on business and technical topics. Here's a sample of recent discussion of MBA degrees:

If MBAs actually are as gifted as their press clippings proclaim, the United States ought to be an industrial and commercial powerhouse dominating every other industrialized nation. But the facts are otherwise. Excuse my temerity for pointing this out, but for the last four decades American corporations have been staggering and wobbling along pretty much living paycheck to paycheck, so to speak, In my estimation, virtually the entire Fortune 500 is a bunch of sick puppies.How many profitable and growth-oriented corporations does the United States have today? Well, we can name Wal-Mart, Microsoft, McDonald's, General Electric Co., and maybe Intel. And at the risk of over-simplifying the matter, in each case the success of these companies has been due to the vision and drive of a single person, not a phalanx of business-school graduates. I'm sure I missed a lot of other strong firms, but I've racked my brain, and none spring to mind. And if a few did, that wouldn't invalidate my point.