Category Archives: Inspiring IdeasEvery now and again I like to put on my futurist hat and make a few predictions based on business and other trends. Now, again, it’s one of those times.
As we watch giants like Starbucks and Borders Books (and countless financial firms) stumble, you might think “If they can’t make it, how can I?”
The truth [...]
Today I’m attending the first full day of classes at Stanford University. I’m attending the Stanford Professional Publishing Course (I won the American Magazine Publishers Diversity Fellowship). My day began with a presentation by futurist Paul Saffo, a Stanford engineering professor. Saffo’s presentation, Publishing in a Post-Information Age, was packed with interesting (and amusing) bits [...]
So, I’ve just returned from NYC. I traveled there for my birthday. I used the time to take in a show (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), see a few friends and formulate a strategy, or strategies, for moving my business to the next level–recession be damned.
While I was there I had occasion to meet [...]
Every now and again the Brits have a few useful ideas that we’d like to “borrow”. This one’s a veritable box of goodies. The Brits call it Flexible Support for Business. I call it a miracle, one that I hope is reproducible…and relocatable.
Amazon recently set out to open a distribution center in Jersey Marine, Neath [...]
In 2006, Jim Newton founded TechShop, a startup franchise that’s part clubhouse, part workshop, part artists studio and part Geeks’ lair. The exact nature of the TechShop culture is hard to explain, but the concept is fairly straightforward–you bring your big ideas (robots, product prototypes, a new clothing line, your first attempt at a [...]
Sweat Equity Enterprises (SEE), a three-year-old Manhattan nonprofit that partners professional designers with low-income students in New York and Rhode Island, is the brainchild of fashion magnate Marc Ecko and SEE executive director Nell Daniel. Daniel, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, came up with the idea of engaging urban youth [...]
A lot has been written about sexy, cutting-edge, ground-breaking businesses and careers. Scan the magazine rack and you’ll find that there is a mover-shaker, brainiac billionaire with a new idea or a big deal. I love these stories. I write some of these stories. But, the truth is that for every [...]
This is my year…and yours! This is the year that you throw down the gauntlet and go after the career you want and deserve. Cast aside fears and excuses. Do away with procrastination. In 2008 you will be successful, contented and masterful. You will commit to getting everything you want [...]
Today I’m launching a new feature, Inspiring Ideas. Beginning today, I will spotlight breakout business and career ideas as I stumble upon them. The first idea comes from George Beylerian, a 72-year-old Egyptian-born New Yorker.
Beylerian created Material ConneXion, a library of samples–from textiles to rocks–frequented by artists, designers, architects, engineers and scientists. Every [...]
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