Nasa Director Predicts Mars settlement by 2060
11/27/2010
KEEP YOUR GOALS TO YOURSELF
What do we do in our working or family environment? What do you think?
Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby. A professional musician since 1987, he started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby was the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.
In 2008, Sivers sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work."
"Derek Sivers is changing the way music is bought and sold. A musicians' savior. One of the last music-business folk heroes."
Esquire
Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby. A professional musician since 1987, he started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby was the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.
In 2008, Sivers sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work."
"Derek Sivers is changing the way music is bought and sold. A musicians' savior. One of the last music-business folk heroes."
Esquire
11/25/2010
THE NEXT GENERATION OF ENTREPRENEURS
Author Woody Tasch believes that there is a dramatic need to focus time, energy, and capital on the next generation of small business entrepreneurs because they represent diversity.
11/24/2010
MY GREEN SCHOOL DREAM, A GREEN DREAM FROM A GREEN MIND
A beautiful project
Nice Lesson from a person who decided to change his world.
A Green Dream from a Green mind
JOHN HARDY
After selling his jewelry company in 2007, John Hardy and his wife, Cynthia, endowed a thrilling new project: the Green School in Bali. At the Green School, kids learn in open-air classrooms surrounded by acres of gardens that they tend; they learn to build with bamboo; and meanwhile they're being prepared for traditional British school exams. The school is international -- 20 percent of students are Bali locals, some on scholarship. The centerpiece of the campus is the spiraling Heart of School, which may be called Asia's largest bamboo building.
Hardy has long been an advocate of the use of bamboo as an alternative to timber for building and reforestation. When running his company, Hardy pioneered a program of sustainable advertising that offset the carbon emissions associated with the yearly corporate print advertising by planting bamboo on the island of Nusa Penida in a cooperative plantation.
"Green School Bali [is] one of the most amazing schools on earth."
Stefan Sagmeister
http://www.greenschool.org/gallery/
Nice Lesson from a person who decided to change his world.
A Green Dream from a Green mind
JOHN HARDY
After selling his jewelry company in 2007, John Hardy and his wife, Cynthia, endowed a thrilling new project: the Green School in Bali. At the Green School, kids learn in open-air classrooms surrounded by acres of gardens that they tend; they learn to build with bamboo; and meanwhile they're being prepared for traditional British school exams. The school is international -- 20 percent of students are Bali locals, some on scholarship. The centerpiece of the campus is the spiraling Heart of School, which may be called Asia's largest bamboo building.
Hardy has long been an advocate of the use of bamboo as an alternative to timber for building and reforestation. When running his company, Hardy pioneered a program of sustainable advertising that offset the carbon emissions associated with the yearly corporate print advertising by planting bamboo on the island of Nusa Penida in a cooperative plantation.
"Green School Bali [is] one of the most amazing schools on earth."
Stefan Sagmeister
http://www.greenschool.org/gallery/
11/23/2010
TOP 10 THINGS YOU MUST HAVE TO START A BUSINESS
Watch it on Academic Earth
1) Spending everything on a good team and equipment
2) Letting people know the company is in business
3) Raising limited capital
4) Taking stock of a company and determining its needs
5) Being open to opportunities
6) Having a supportive family
7) Targeting mass markets, not just niche markets
8) Having confidence in new ideas
9) Acquiring and selling to real customers
10) Choosing a great partner
11/19/2010
THE MOST POWERFUL ENERGY IS SOFTNESS
Simplicity
Travel to China to meet Calligraphy and Buddhist Master Fa Qing, who explains the importance of simplicity to the Buddhist approach.
Travel to China to meet Calligraphy and Buddhist Master Fa Qing, who explains the importance of simplicity to the Buddhist approach.
11/18/2010
TO GET AN MBA OR NOT?
GUY KAWASAKI
Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures
http://www.garage.com
Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures
http://www.garage.com
Watch it on Academic Earth
11/17/2010
HOW DO YOU MAKE STUDENTS AND PEOPLE THINK?
Do you want within your org. followers or pioneers? What do you think?
I do involve people in general as the thinking phase starts in University.
Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough presents his competition lecture entitled You Can Lead Students to Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think?
I do involve people in general as the thinking phase starts in University.
Steve Joordens from the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough presents his competition lecture entitled You Can Lead Students to Knowledge, But How Do You Make Them Think?
11/16/2010
SURROUND YOURSELF WITH GOOD PEOPLE
People think they will look the best by bringing weakness around them.
What do you think?
Carol Ann Bartz (born August 29, 1948) is the President and CEO of Yahoo!. It is the Internet services company which operates the third most visited Website in the world. She was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world's largest producer of design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction.
What do you think?
Watch it on Academic Earth
Carol Ann Bartz (born August 29, 1948) is the President and CEO of Yahoo!. It is the Internet services company which operates the third most visited Website in the world. She was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world's largest producer of design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction.
11/15/2010
DO WHAT YOU LOVE, THE GAME IS CHANGING
Bestselling author and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk began his career in his family's business, Shopper’s Discount Liquors. He soon rebranded the store as Wine Library, launching a retail website and boosting its revenue from $4 million to $60 million.
In 2006 Vaynerchuk launched Wine Library TV (http://tv.winelibrary.com/) , a daily video blog about wine. With the tagline "changing the wine world," the show offers an unpretentious approach to a historically stuffy subject. As the audience grew and word spread of his informal and unorthodox approach to wine, Gary made numerous national television appearances and landed a book deal.
He's recently launched a new consulting venture, VaynerMedia, which works with personal brands, consumer brands, and startups.
"[Vaynerchuk] ... brings a hyperkinetic style to the normally dry business of judging syrahs and merlots. "
Slate
In 2006 Vaynerchuk launched Wine Library TV (http://tv.winelibrary.com/) , a daily video blog about wine. With the tagline "changing the wine world," the show offers an unpretentious approach to a historically stuffy subject. As the audience grew and word spread of his informal and unorthodox approach to wine, Gary made numerous national television appearances and landed a book deal.
He's recently launched a new consulting venture, VaynerMedia, which works with personal brands, consumer brands, and startups.
"[Vaynerchuk] ... brings a hyperkinetic style to the normally dry business of judging syrahs and merlots. "
Slate
11/13/2010
REMEMBER ME, THE FILM
Business and Family care, are they both compatible? Should we say no when things are becoming too risky on the personal side?
11/12/2010
THE COUGAR, THE BABY BEAR AND THE PROTECTIVE OLD BEAR, DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR WITHIN YOUR COMPANY?
Should we maintain or expell The Cougar from our org? Are Baby Bears the future leaders, are they usually alone? Do we need a Protective Old Bear to balance internal tensions?
Criteria 1. Let the baby bears alone so they become stronger by fending for themselves
Criteria 2. Protect the baby bears so they are not harmed and can safely reach to their next stage
Criteria 1. Let the baby bears alone so they become stronger by fending for themselves
Criteria 2. Protect the baby bears so they are not harmed and can safely reach to their next stage
11/11/2010
STRUCTURE OF TRUST THROUGHOUT YOUR ORGANIZATION
Paul R. Lawrence is a Professor Emeritus of Harvard Business School, where he served nine years as chairman of the Organizational Behavior area and also as chairman of both the MBA and AMP programs. His research, published in 25 books and numerous articles, has dealt with the human aspects of management, organizational change, organization design, human nature, and leadership. His 1967 book, Organization and Environment (written with Professor Jay Lorsch), added "contingency theory" to the vocabulary of students of organizational behavior. Recently he has, with others, made a comparative study of Soviet management practices that was published in 1990 as Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and U.S. Enterprises.
Question: What can Renewed Darwinian Theory teach business leaders?
Paul Lawrence: Well what they can learn is that we can be much more specific than we have in the past about telling them what we mean by a leadership brain. They can learn how their own brain is actually constructed to help them be good leaders. We evolved to have such a brain, we have evolved to observe the world around us in terms of whether it is a help or a hindrance to our need for these four drives. And we can sense those things in ourselves and we can say, by practicing the skills of thinking of such complex situations of that kind, we can improve our own leadership capacity.
Let me give you one kind of an example. One thing that the world faces these days is a lot of organizations that are loaded with distrust. Distrust is a very costly characteristic to have in organizations and business leaders and managers are often confused that they have unfortunately a lot more distrust in their organization than they wish they had. People do not trust enough in each other to engage in some kind of deal or transaction. They think they are going to be undercut some way. And this is very expensive if you’ve got to have six lawyers to make an everyday agreement between two people in how they are going to work with each other, you’re going to pay an awful lot of lawyer’s bills.
Well, this certainly can help you build a structure of trust throughout your organization which will enable people to cooperate much more readily with each other without having to build up defensive systems just in case the other guy double-crosses them, which is in the back of minds when they have distrust. And it teaches us... can teach us how on a step-by-step basis, just in everyday conversations, we can notice when we or the other person does a below-the-belt comment. You know, sort of throws out a half-truth or throws out a put down or a way of diminishing the other that the other feels they’ve got to get back at them and begin a game of tit-for-tat and see who can kind of undermine the other’s position. And stop such conversations; call them out for what they are. These are busting trust is what they are, they’re trust busters, and engage in the kind of dialogue that builds trust, where we listen carefully to other’s ideas and give due credit to it and tell each other truths instead of falsehoods. And see how we can build a larger accomplishment by that quality of cooperation based on trust and build up the habits of trusting each other so it means you can take it for granted that you can have... you’re working in an organization that it has a structure of trust. That’s a very specific skill that we can help people acquire really by engaging in the kind of moral rules that fall out of examining what’s behind the four drives and the leadership behavior involved.
Recorded on July 28, 2010
Interviewed by Max Miller
Question: What can Renewed Darwinian Theory teach business leaders?
Paul Lawrence: Well what they can learn is that we can be much more specific than we have in the past about telling them what we mean by a leadership brain. They can learn how their own brain is actually constructed to help them be good leaders. We evolved to have such a brain, we have evolved to observe the world around us in terms of whether it is a help or a hindrance to our need for these four drives. And we can sense those things in ourselves and we can say, by practicing the skills of thinking of such complex situations of that kind, we can improve our own leadership capacity.
Let me give you one kind of an example. One thing that the world faces these days is a lot of organizations that are loaded with distrust. Distrust is a very costly characteristic to have in organizations and business leaders and managers are often confused that they have unfortunately a lot more distrust in their organization than they wish they had. People do not trust enough in each other to engage in some kind of deal or transaction. They think they are going to be undercut some way. And this is very expensive if you’ve got to have six lawyers to make an everyday agreement between two people in how they are going to work with each other, you’re going to pay an awful lot of lawyer’s bills.
Well, this certainly can help you build a structure of trust throughout your organization which will enable people to cooperate much more readily with each other without having to build up defensive systems just in case the other guy double-crosses them, which is in the back of minds when they have distrust. And it teaches us... can teach us how on a step-by-step basis, just in everyday conversations, we can notice when we or the other person does a below-the-belt comment. You know, sort of throws out a half-truth or throws out a put down or a way of diminishing the other that the other feels they’ve got to get back at them and begin a game of tit-for-tat and see who can kind of undermine the other’s position. And stop such conversations; call them out for what they are. These are busting trust is what they are, they’re trust busters, and engage in the kind of dialogue that builds trust, where we listen carefully to other’s ideas and give due credit to it and tell each other truths instead of falsehoods. And see how we can build a larger accomplishment by that quality of cooperation based on trust and build up the habits of trusting each other so it means you can take it for granted that you can have... you’re working in an organization that it has a structure of trust. That’s a very specific skill that we can help people acquire really by engaging in the kind of moral rules that fall out of examining what’s behind the four drives and the leadership behavior involved.
Recorded on July 28, 2010
Interviewed by Max Miller
11/10/2010
BEING WHAT WE WANT TO BE, COCKROACHES OR EAGLES?
Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio is a French-Colombian politician and anti-corruption activist. In February 2002 Betancourt was kidnapped by the leftist guerrilla organization Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) while she was campaigning for the presidential elections. She was finally rescued by Colombian security forces six and a half years later, in an operation dubbed Operation Jaque, which also rescued 14 other hostages. Her kidnapping received worldwide coverage, particularly in France, because of her dual French citizenship. In 2010 she wrote a memoir about her time in captivity called "Even Silence Has an End."
Question: What idea has most changed your life?
Ingrid Betancourt: Well I think that one of the things that helped me the most in this new life of freedom is the consciousness that there is a freedom that nobody can take away from you, which is to decide what kind of person you want to be. And of course in the jungle chained and subjected to many things that was obvious, but here I find that many times we have so many reasons to just accept the least of ourselves that we can be... there are two like poles in a human being; one who wants to be a cockroach and wants to just you know get it easy and go and feed with rubbish and one that wants to be like an eagle and have perspective and things and fly away very high. And we have to decide which one we want to prefer in our lives. And I think that this society we’re in allows us too much to be like cockroach. We’re too passive. We’re feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.
Recorded on October 19, 2010
Interviewed by Max Miller
Question: What idea has most changed your life?
Ingrid Betancourt: Well I think that one of the things that helped me the most in this new life of freedom is the consciousness that there is a freedom that nobody can take away from you, which is to decide what kind of person you want to be. And of course in the jungle chained and subjected to many things that was obvious, but here I find that many times we have so many reasons to just accept the least of ourselves that we can be... there are two like poles in a human being; one who wants to be a cockroach and wants to just you know get it easy and go and feed with rubbish and one that wants to be like an eagle and have perspective and things and fly away very high. And we have to decide which one we want to prefer in our lives. And I think that this society we’re in allows us too much to be like cockroach. We’re too passive. We’re feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.
Recorded on October 19, 2010
Interviewed by Max Miller
11/09/2010
INFLUENCE AT WORK
DR.ROBERT CIALDINI
PRINCIPLES OF INFLUENCE
AUTHORITY-LIKING-RECIPROCITY-SOCIAL PROOF-SCARCITY
http://www.influenceatwork.com/
PRINCIPLES OF INFLUENCE
AUTHORITY-LIKING-RECIPROCITY-SOCIAL PROOF-SCARCITY
http://www.influenceatwork.com/
11/08/2010
FRUGAL INNOVATION - REVERSE INNOVATION
Vijay Govindarajan on innovation
India's secret weapon
A business professor on frugal innovation, what the rich world can learn from the poor and why it's so hard to put ideas into practice.
"INNOVATION IS 1% INSPIRATION AND 99% PERSPIRATION" - THOMAS EDISSON-
India's secret weapon
A business professor on frugal innovation, what the rich world can learn from the poor and why it's so hard to put ideas into practice.
"INNOVATION IS 1% INSPIRATION AND 99% PERSPIRATION" - THOMAS EDISSON-
11/06/2010
CARLOS BARRABES - YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER
Carlos Barrabés ha sido elegido como YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER por el WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. Su empresa www.barrabes.biz
DANCE4LIFE ....FROM A YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER
DENIS KARPES
FOUNDER,DANCE4LIFE
YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER
TELL ME AND I WILL FORGET
SHOW ME AND I MAY REMEMBER
INVOLVE ME AND I WILL UNDERSTAND
"CONFUCIUS"
FOUNDER,DANCE4LIFE
YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER
TELL ME AND I WILL FORGET
SHOW ME AND I MAY REMEMBER
INVOLVE ME AND I WILL UNDERSTAND
"CONFUCIUS"
11/04/2010
THE POWER OF COLLABORATION
As teenagers, Dell Inc. founder and CEO Michael Dell and his computer-minded friends spent all their time on an electronic bulletin board - sharing information, collaborating and exchanging ideas. Since then, their ideals has been adopted by a whole generation. And when you collaborate, anything is possible.
11/03/2010
11/02/2010
CHINA IS THE BIGGEST BUBBLE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN
Leading economic and political analyst Ian Bremmer explores the rise of state capitalism and its long-term threat to the global economy.
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