WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA?
Ideas go in and out of fashion. Any fool knows that. A far more interesting premise: It's not just ideas that lose their shine. A [...]
CREATIVITY AND CAPITALISM
Kevin Kelly just penned an eye-popping article for Wired. It's titled "The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online." Every business person ought to [...]
PRICE: THE NEW ABACUS
As a society, we're doing a better job of managing the economics of a better life. That includes taking a sharper look the price-tag when [...]
NOW TIME – 5
Living in NOW has its own very exacting economics. Focus is imperative to getting it right. You have to discriminate between what is important and [...]
NOW TIME – 4
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky played the game with a wonderful attitude: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has [...]
NOW TIME – 3
Niche marketing doggedly pursued a single-minded target. What kind of person are you and how do I serve you best? NOW-niche marketing expands the question. [...]
NOW TIME – 2
You can prototype a business vision very quickly in NOW time: Zoom from vision to reality with hypersonic Mach speed. The impacts of steering a [...]
NOW TIME – 1
Back in 1990, John Guare wrote a play called Six Degrees of Separation. Three years later, that play led to a film with the same [...]
SUSTAINABLE: THE NEW FASHION SMART
During the recent deep downturn, alarmists painted a bleak picture of consumer behavior and retreat: • Frills would disappear forever. • Consumers would agonize endlessly [...]