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Saturday, June 13th, 2009A well known adage warns us to never discuss politics or religion at the dinner table. But if – hypothetically – capitalism is our new religion, should the adage be changed to reflect that? As the US economy still struggles to turn around from the disconcerting downward spiral of the past year, this may be [...]
Warren Buffett’s Test Drive into an Electric Auto Future
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The Oracle of Omaha has spoken. Warren Buffett may not be the Wizard of Oz, but considering his almost mystical track record as a powerhouse investor and one of America’s most successful businessmen, it would be easy to understand any confusion. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO is [...]
Anita Roddick – Corporate Rebel with a Cause
Thursday, May 21st, 2009“I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. ” – Dame Anita Roddick Dame Anita Roddick was not a wallflower. She was not timid, quiet, or dispassionate. She was not afraid of courting [...]
Arie de Geus
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Adaptation is an alteration in the structure or function of an organism that results from natural selection and by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment. This is a concept well embraced by those in the biological sciences, but less so in the corporate world. As the worldwide economic [...]
Dr. Amen’s New Rules for the Care of Our Brains
Thursday, May 14th, 2009Each of us, usually without consciously acknowledging it, walks through life with a 3-lb supercomputer between our ears. And for the most part the processes and activities within that supercomputer – our brains – are a complete mystery to us. It controls the automatic functions – breathing, digestion, metabolism – freeing us to address the [...]
Craig Venter – Synthesizing a Life on the Leading Edge
Friday, April 24th, 2009Under the title heading of Craig Venter’s Wikipedia entry is a note reading – “the neutrality of this article is disputed… please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved.” This note could serve as a metaphor for Venter’s relationships with those in the scientific community, where ongoing struggles for funding create fast [...]
Our Counterintuitive Stumble to Happiness
Saturday, April 18th, 2009When the writers of the Declaration of Independence committed to paper the words that would inspire our fledgling nation onward, they agreed upon three ‘inalienable rights’ – ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ Noble concepts all, but difficult to define precisely. And while entire tomes have been written regarding the first two, the ‘pursuit [...]
The New Truth in Numbers
Saturday, April 4th, 2009Statistical analysis and data mining are having their day in the sun. Over the past several years, what has been a staid and incomprehensible science has evolved into a (semi) pop culture darling as economists, government officials and business leaders around the world have started using statistics to show us surprising social truths, hidden behind [...]
First Globals, Secular Spiritualists and the Evolving American Dream
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009An crisis like the one our nation is currently going through can make us examine our heritage, our values and our perceptions to try and find an anchor in uncertain times. Someone who does that for a living is John Zogby, the well known pollster who heads up Zogby International. He has recently written a [...]
USA – A Content Nation
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009We are the members of a revolution. It has happened so gradually, and so easily slipped into our everyday lives, that we may not even notice the changes. Over the past two decades, the internet has been transformed from a tool used mainly by research institutes, universities, and government agencies into a global communications network, [...]
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