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Thinking Tools – The Work of Edward de Bono

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Most of us probably take thinking for granted as a reflexive, automatic process, like breathing. Thoughts pass in and out of our consciousness in an endless, effortless stream. Edward de Bono looks at thinking differently. He sees thinking as a set of tools that we can employ in a deliberate manner to gain insights, create [...]

Ford and In-car Cloud Computing

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

While most American car makers have struggled in the bearish economy, including Toyota, Ford has made a remarkable turnaround, and in April announced strong quarterly profits. According to MarketWatch, Ford swung to a profit of $2.1 billion, or 50 cents a share, from a loss of $1.4 billion, or 60 cents a share, in the [...]

Can We Really Multitask?

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Recently, many states have begun passing laws about not texting and driving at the same. The rise in traffic fatalities due to the distraction caused by attempting to text and drive at the same time has been cited as the rationale. Scientific evidence is growing to support the notion that whatever we might think otherwise, [...]

The World Cafe – Principles for Purposeful Conversations

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As much as technology has improved our ability to communicate with like-minded individuals around the world, there are still some difficulties that can only be solved by person-to-person discussion. The World Café is a new approach to harnessing the power of a group to take aim at the myriad of concerns that exist in any [...]

Mobilizing Aid for Haiti on the Web

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

It has been three weeks since the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in early January, reducing much of its capitol city of Port-au-Prince to debris and claiming over 170,000 lives. Hitting just 16 miles west of the capitol, the quake destroyed much of the impoverished nation’s infrastructure – leveling entire blocks of commercial [...]

Javed Abidi – Giving Visibility and Hope to India’s Disabled

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Power and compassion – these two words can sum up the focus behind Javed Abidi’s mission. As an impassioned advocate for India’s disabled citizens, he has given voice to an ‘invisible minority‘ – one that has been denied to them by both political and social sectors for decades. It is a subject that he understands [...]

Tiffin – Meals for Millions in Mumbai

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

It is a low-tech, high-volume service that has Western business management experts flocking to the crowded, dusty streets of Mumbai. Each weekday, the Tiffin delivery network provides hot, home-cooked meals to a growing population of office workers in India’s financial capital. From the city’s outer suburbs to the bustling downtown core, the small, aluminum boxes [...]

Embracing Unpredictability – Life Among Black Swans

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

During the course of his long (and by any standards, successful) career, Nassim Nicholas Taleb has been categorized with numerous titles – among them scholar, philosopher, professor, ‘senior Wall Street trader’, and hedge fund manager. As a writer and essayist, he has developed philosophical theories based on his observations of probability, statistics, and mathematical finance [...]

Rockefeller Foundation – Creating the Mold for Big Philanthropy

Friday, December 11th, 2009

‘Gain all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.’ – John Wesley It is a fitting maxim for America’s first billionaire and the founder of one of the country’s oldest major philanthropic organizations, the Rockefeller Foundation. Industrialist, robber baron, monopolist or mankind’s greatest benefactor – history has not yet passed its [...]

Railroads – The Once and Future Hot Investment

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is buying into the future, by investing in the past – but don’t confuse his latest acquisition for an eccentric billionaire’s bid on nostalgia. There’s more going on here than meets the eye. Buffett, one of the world’s most successful investors, isn’t an eccentric – having proven his near-uncanny financial [...]