Yes to Opportunity!
Even if you voted for Senator McCain, you have to admit (secretly, quietly) that there is something hopeful, heartening about the election of President-Elect Barack Obama. Not just because he’s the first African American or the most unlikely winner, but because his campaign, his “business plan” for building coalitions across wide swaths of people, for [...]
Break Out Opportunity: Is This Your Moment?
Every 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?” [...]
POSITIONING YOURSELF FOR SUCCESS
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 [...]
There’s Life In the Job Market Yet
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 [...]
Inspiring Ideas: One-Stop Shop for Business Start-Up
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, [...]
Inspiring Ideas: Tool Time Again!
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 coffee [...]
Inspiring Ideas: SEE Sweat Equity Enterprises Succeed
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 in [...]
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