Business, innovation, Technology
Welcome to the era of brainbelts. A brainbelt is a term coined by Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker to talk about the transformation of traditional rustbelt cities in the U.S. and Europe into centers of global innovation. van Agtmael said in remarks at the Brookings...
Business, business ethics
Debbie Marriott Harrison tells this wonderful story about how her grandmother knocked on the door of the Embassy of Mexico and convinced the chef there to teach her how to make tacos and tamales. Harrison is the third generation of Marriotts in the hospitality...
Independent Thinking, Reviews
Socrates would have been a great mentor. (No, I haven’t pivoted this blog from business to philosophy, so bear with me.) Want to propel your business forward? Then you can’t beat the Socratic method. Wikipedia defines it as “a form of inquiry and discussion between...
Business, Data, innovation, Technology
I’m fascinated by Bitcoin. Not the currency per se, but rather the “why” and “how” of it. I’m excited, for example, by initiatives to create a more-transparent financial system. Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams talked about this in...
Business, innovation, Social Media
The raw YouTube statistics are staggering: More than 100 hours of video uploaded per minute. More than 1 billion unique visitors per month. More than 6 billion hours of video viewed each month. Almost 40 percent of videos are viewed on mobile devices. And, yes,...
