One California hotel manager recently called to redeem her card, he says, confessing that she nabbed 20 business cards from a fishbowl in the lobby of nearby rival La Quinta in an attempt to find prospective customers.

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New York is a fishbowl too, he acknowledged, but he expects it to be a different, less-intense environment than the talk-radio fueled Boston scene perhaps, he said, owing to the fact that there are two teams in every sport in New York, making each individual team's struggles less a matter of life-or-death.

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Groups should head to a booth and order a Scorpion, a giant fishbowl of a cocktail served with multiple straws.

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You don't necessarily need a formal introduction to glom onto the rich and famous--you just have to be willing to stand for days at a time outside the fishbowl studio at NBC's Today Show, right in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan.

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In our own company, we extend the principles of agile development into agile leadership (management is not a word in the Fishbowl vernacular.) We create paired leadership teams who guide and empower employees to do their jobs in the way they see fit.

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But first of all New York, where it's the biggest fishbowl in the world, the postseason, where everybody gets a chance to go 'let's see how good you are' and to scrutinize.

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As a case in point, the company I helped save from closure in 2004 and now lead ( Fishbowl ) has grown from 6 to 100 employees in the past 8 years, and our turnover is negligible (under 2%).

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