My wife Marina and I will be in New York on Monday night to attend the Quill Awards, as The No Asshole Rule won in business book category.  The event is black tie (not exactly my style), but she talked me into buying a tux for the event.

I bought it at Men's Wearhouse after first going to Nordstrom -- it was not only a lot less money, I liked the customer service better because of their team selling approach. At Nordstrom, because of the incentive system and the norms, the people who aren't "your" salesperson never seem to lift a finger to help each other. At Men's Wearhouse, I was most impressed by how everyone at the store in Redwood City, California, worked together to help me pick what I wanted and to make the process quick and painless.

I am scheduled to be on Fox Business Network at some point between 7 and 8AM on Monday morning, and then am planning on visiting JetBlue to see one of my former students, who is now an executive. Meanwhile, Marina, my wife, is going to meet with people at Girl Scouts headquarters in connection with her new job.

Then we are off to the Quill Awards that night with my editor Rick Wolff, my literary agent Christy Fletcher, and Mark Fortier and Rob Nissen (who both have done a great job publicizing the book).  The ceremony itself is at Lincoln Center and takes about 90 minutes.  It  will be televised on the evening of Saturday, October 27th on NBC stations. Stephen Colbert opens, which should be fun.  And I believe that  The Road by Cormac McCarthy was selected by popular vote as the overall winner (a choice I applaud), what a book.  My speech is limited to 30 seconds..I am thinking about it, but haven't really written it down or started practicing it.  AL Gore also won an award for The Assault on Reason -- I hope that he shows up!