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Thursday, November 12th, 2009It’s been over two decades since Gordon Gekko (played to eerie realism by Michael Douglas) uttered the now famous phrase ‘Greed is good’ in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street. The idiom has since become a cultural tag – one that personifies the material excesses, dog-eat-dog business tactics and wealth mentality of 1980′s America. As [...]
Planning for the Electric Car Infrastructure
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009The future is almost here, but are we prepared for it? After years of research and development, several of the world’s largest automakers are preparing to deliver the next gen electric car to showroom floors in 2010. But they’re going to have to contend with a lot more than simply changing the mindset of a [...]
Sam Smith
Monday, August 31st, 2009When I was executive director of Seattle’s METRO, I reported to a board of directors forty people strong. Amongst them were the mayor, all nine city council members, the elected county executive, all five county council members, mayors of several nearby cities, and various others. In short, all the key elected officials in the region [...]
Prediction Markets – Buying and Sellling the Future
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009It’s not wholly gambling – not in the Vegas sense. But it’s not purely an academic pursuit either – despite it’s uses as a real-world teaching tool. The science of prediction markets is a curious phenomenon – controversial, moderately confusing, and at times, uncommonly accurate. Speculative in nature, prediction markets use the wisdom of the [...]
GM Survives the Unthinkable
Friday, August 21st, 2009It is poetic, if not altogether overly optimistic – there is a rebirth occurring for the company headquartered in the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan. General Motors has emerged from bankruptcy – promising to be a leaner, more efficient version of its former self. In web parlance, we could call it GM 2.0. The beleaguered [...]
Ground Zero for Crowdsourced Journalism
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009It was an experiment that, according to the opinions of volunteer contributors and paid staffers alike, ended in glorious failure. Glorious, given the innumerable lessons learned about harnessing the power of the crowd to create viable content. And a failure due to the inability to actually create the amount of content originally planned for during [...]
Business Connects with Social Network Analysis
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Due to the growing popularity of social networking websites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, most of us have developed a working knowledge (however slight) of the real-world concept of connectivity. Useful In both personal and business-related areas, we can reconnect with our high school sweetheart or approach an industry peer. By utilizing data sets we [...]
Frances Hesselbein – Re-Imagining Girl Scouts
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter F. Drucker Despite how you may feel about their only-once-a-year cookie sales, the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) are not, at heart, a Machiavellian organization. So it comes as little surprise that their management philosophies lean more towards promoting acceptance, diversity, [...]
Yvon Chouinard – Reluctant Businessman, Relentless Social Corporate Responsibility Pioneer
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. – Patagonia Mission Statement It is a question that is raising debate in boardrooms around the world – how do we, as a company, limit our environmental impact while still turning a profit? In a society [...]
The Case of Fabio Rosa – How Social Entrepreneurs Take on the World
Saturday, June 27th, 2009In a civilization fueled by innovation, entrepreneurial enterprise is king. This is no surprise to those of us living in the Information Age – where entrepreneurs are regular features on the covers of the glossy business weeklies – sharing their stories of translating problems into solutions, and making a mint in the process. Creativity, keen [...]
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