There is a reason I was afraid to get drunk at rugby parties when I was teenager growing up in New Zealand. I wouldn’t have called what I was afraid of rape, because I’d been…
“Creating Shared Value,” the influential 2011 HBR article by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, points to the need to reinvent capitalism with broader ideas about value creation that will…
I am not an expert in leadership and what more could be said about a subject so popular and so much written about? Many books were published about what makes a great leader and how to develop…
In the chapter ”Honor and Degradation” of Debt, Graeber brings up a unique point in the discussion of human rights. He suggests to say that “we have rights” is also to say that “we own” our own rights. That our inalienable rights to…
The original meaning of “idiot” was derived from the Greek term for “individual,” which came from the Greek for “private person.” When someone was called an “idiot,” way back when, it meant: “one who keeps to himself” —…
Even the space we fill in under the Subtitle line on Medium says, “Type Your Post”. I find this very funny. It reminds me of the Truman Capote interview where someone (Dick Cavett?) asks him what he…
Jeff Bezos’ central question about The Washington Post, is stated in his recent interview: “Why should I pay you for all that journalistic effort…
As an experienced advertising and marketing professional, I am an expert on just about everything. Just ask me. I can…
There has always been one thing that has always bugged me about targeted adverts — like Google’s adChoice, Facebook’s promoted posts or the new Tesco face recognition adverts in stores — and, surprisingly enough, it’s not the adverts. It’s people. People who get…
Yeah.
I started a company.
People keep telling me that it’s hard. Um, I know. I’m the one doing it, remember?
I’ve been thinking for a while about taking a closer look at startups outsourcing their back office. There is a trend amongst US startup to outsource non-core activities to 3rd party experts. Whether…
As a follow up to my post on Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post, I turn to another exciting entry into journalism by a top-tier e-commerce innovator with very deep pockets…
The normal human body temperature is 37°C; limits are +/- 0.5°C, but I must make the point that the average healthy body temperature for every single human on the planet is close to 37°C…
Eventually, the latest and greatest products would be impossible for the entrepreneur to make himself. Whether it be the automotive industry or the printing industry, one thing was for sure, one man could not out produce the industrialists. If you couldn’t beat em you eventually had…
Winston Churchill’s famous quote “democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.“ is still very much current. But democracy is not in good health; it has received a battering from politicians of every…
There was a time in the United States when we paid attention to poor people. It was a time when…
In a recent article about the youth unemployment crisis in Europe and Africa HFN asked a question:
“What are all these people going to do?”
A leading newspaper carried a story about the limited burial space in New York and other big cities. We are running out of space. I remember a cemetery in New Orleans. It was very old. Many of the burial plots were above…
125 years ago you would have worked for yourself. Almost everyone did. Those that were not were perceived as some form of indentured servant. The economy was local. Economics was classical and organizations were small. Scientific management had not yet been created. Using humans as cogs in the machine…
Cainophobia. The fear of something new. Cainophobes could be found on right-wing radio as nostalgic, irrational, fearful, and angry beings at any time since Barry Goldwater ran for President 50 years ago. They fear the outside forces of socialism, secularism, and immigration as a…
Starting in December,you will be able to get ideas for trading. This is tied into my book on Trading. We are trying to get people to join Medium. This is a new start up and really a new way of communicating.
By Joe Bruns — No resource is more important to civilization than water. But we seldom give it a second thought. Most of us turn on the faucet and an…
As soon as Shakira and Piqué’s first son was born, any fan from any corner of the world willing to see his picture could just make a donation to Unicef for the exchange. Even before the birth, the couple launched a virtual baby shower asking fans…
We want those two words to be together so badly that we create new categories and definitions. We write and discuss what entrepreneurship is and what social is in…
I’d like to welcome you all to today’s event. Your support means the world to me, even if we’re bucking the tide, going against the grain, swimming upstream and any other clichés you’d care to…
The fellow was rambling on about how structural steel melts at 2,777 degrees, while jet fuel burns at 1,517 (Fahrenheit? Celsius? Who knows?). So, the planes couldn’t have caused the World Trade Center…
