Clyde Prestowitz, author of Trading Places, Three
Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the
East, and current member of both the Intel Policy Advisory Board and
the U.S. Export-Import Bank Advisory Board ...READ»
J.D. Steele closed out the first full day of PUSH 2008 on Monday evening with a performance about what he has been doing in Africa. He entertained the audience with a cultural experience and music.
A little background: Steele ...READ»
Nate Garvis, Vice President of Government Affairs for Target Corporation, spoke in the political section of PUSH 2008 about leadership in reverse.
He is responsible for political, legislative and regulatory affairs at the ...READ»
Politicians used to take their lead from marketers. It was the Madison Avenue image-factory that led the way, teaching consultants and candidates how to shape their advertising, how to use sophisticated tools of persuasion to ...READ»
After a half-hour break, Katherine Marshall closed the section on economics at PUSH 2008.
Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and a senior advisor for the World ...READ»
Entrepreneur in
socially responsible business, chief executive officer ofGOOD and co-founder of Ethos Water Jonathan Greenblatt brought his business ethos to his Monday morning talk.
Greenblatt began speaking ...READ»
Cecily Sommers, futurist and founder of the Push Institute, addressed PUSH attendees Monday morning to set the tone and pace for the next two days. She prodded complacency and demanded future-oriented questions for the duration of ...READ»
Internationalist Chandran Nair opened the economics section of PUSH 2008.
He is the founder and chief executive of the think tank, Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT), based in Hong Kong. His work is defined by the questions ...READ»
Activist, writer, performer and executive director of WITNESS Jenni Wolfson kicked off
The Push Institute’s 2008 Conference with the first installment of her play RASH
that will be performed in four sections over the course of ...READ»
Facing the future is about asking the right questions, not about trying to find the answers.
The Push Institute is a non-profit think tank that hosts an annual conference for organizations and individuals who wish to influence ...READ»
Most residents living in the family-friendly New York of today are unlikely to miss the crime and grime that characterized the city during its previous decades, but a certain cultural sterilization is also stirring collective panic ...READ»
This decade has spurred on a lengthy requiem for print media, a lament indicated in part by countless blogs covering media news, as well as news items reporting the downsizing of newsrooms. And if Wednesday's hour-long expert panel ...READ»
I’ve frequently wondered what it would take to get organizations and the talented people in those organizations to achieve their full potential. As a consultant my observation would be that most people and organizations are ...READ»
“Ours is the age of design experiences – and it is the technology that is made for young people that is on the cutting edge of advancing this agenda.”
In his book Brandjam Marc Gobe writes about how brands today must ...READ»
The last seven days have kept arts and entertainment editors busy. Amidst Cannes and Indiana Jones coverage came the season finales of most high-profile TV dramas, the confetti-accompanied crowning of an indie rocker as the newest ...READ»
There is no such thing as the perfect business idea. There are good ideas that reward effort. There are ideas that attract interest and inspire support. There are beautiful ideas change our perception of what is possible and what ...READ»
For an aspiring playwright in New York, the odds of turning one's work into a stage production can feel as daunting, even foolish, as pinning an 'American Idol' audition number onto one's shirt. For those whose aspirations surpass ...READ»
Innovation is new stuff that is useful. That’s just about the best definition. It clears up what’s interesting about innovation without overcomplicating. It also leads to the two questions that you should be asking next: Useful ...READ»
Innovation rocks. It rolls. It makes the world go round. Our lifestyles are the result of other people’s efforts to improve the human condition. They mixed ideas and inventions together. They worked hard to create the must-have ...READ»
In my post last week I linked to The New York Times' City Room-section that featured reader questions for the president of the Alliance for the Arts, Randall Bourscheidt. The topic was the state of the arts in New York City, and the ...READ»
Judging from recent coverage on the upcoming Sex and the City film, its long-overdue release couldn't have come at a more apt time to promote public discussion. To the recession-fearing public of 2008, fictional journalist Carrie ...READ»
Living and working in Asia it is interesting to find that many companies that operate here, including some multinationals, still don’t seem to fully grasp either the concept of the manager as a leader, nor the need to ...READ»
Even if you stopped tuning in to 'American Idol' after the unimpressive album sales of its recent winners began to give the show's title a slightly paradoxical quality, you most likely came across Paula Abdul's name in yesterday's ...READ»
About a month and a half ago, I attended a screening of indie documentarian Virginie-Alvine Perrette's 35-minute film that documents the closing of New York City's neighborhood stores (you can see my Q & A with Perrette here).The ...READ»
Welcome to Hollywood, Tom Cruise.
After his move to head up United Artists with producing partner Paula Wagner in late 2006, the publicly ridiculed star hasn't been able to reheat his career--even through films produced by his ...READ»
