It used to be that a business could generate substantial profits by keeping its customers in the dark. But sooner or later practices like those will put your company in as much jeopardy as a Middle Eastern dictator. If you want to stay out of the line of fire, your best course of action is to protect the interests of your customer, proactively. READ»
How will technology change our electoral process? Fast Company gets Crystal Ballin' with Keya Danenbaum, the founder of ElectNext, which applies the techniques of dating websites to representative democracy.READ»
The same country that helped give Bjork her voice hands over its guiding document to everyday citizens. But at its heart, the experiment in social media confuses democracy with transparency, a leading expert in participatory government tells Fast Company.READ»
Is that little "neighborhood" group funded by the Koch brothers? With Inbox Influence you can see who gave what to whom in political contributions. READ»
Google is the keeper of the web democracy. But if it shows even the slightest sign of abusing its power, then retribution could be swift and devastating.READ»
"The key for us is to help them understand what the tools are and then for them to adopt and adapt them for their own purposes," Alec Ross, Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor for innovation, tells us.READ»
Technology is evolving rapidly, with 500 million people spending 700 billion minutes every month on Facebook. That’s the equivalent of years, if not decades, of human effort and energy.
But Facebook is just one branch of this ...READ»
Democracy: it's a beautiful thing. Except in practice, where it's often inefficient, error-prone, and logistically nightmarish for the people who actually do the dirty work of administering elections. Lehrer Architects decided to help ...READ»
During my recent seminar on “influencing” for 240 managers and entrepreneurs in South America, one issue participants shared with me was the "leadership vacuum." Local executives, who reach seniority, want to leave Venezuela ...READ»
Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, has given a lengthy interview to the BBC World Service, in which he claims that social media is fundamental to the spread of democracy. Or should that be the other way around? In the ...READ»
In the U.S., rising income inequality has been called the greatest threat to our democracy. And for good reason: Studies have shown that in countries where the rich make vastly more than the middle class and poor, support for ...READ»
Last week, an embattled Governor Schwarzenegger gave an exasperated thanks to his Twitter followers for suggesting ways California could squeeze revenue into the state budget. As government waste stacks more zeros onto California’s ...READ»
Democratic management is all the rage: big time players like Southwest, meetup.com, and General Electric have all jumped on the populist bandwagon. The democracy evangelists have quite convincingly extolled the strategic value of ...READ»
We thought this day would never come.
I cried in the voting booth yesterday. Like so many others, I had barely let myself believe that this could really happen– a woman and an African American, serious contenders on a ...READ»
I want to talk about leadership. I want to talk about a facet of the present American political climate, and I ask you to weigh in on this issue.
We have always elected leaders who we believe in, who we feel we can relate to. But ...READ»
The Ten Commandments Revised (As of some time in 2001 per George W. Bush)
According to his personal statements Mr. George W. Bush, as President of the World’s most powerful nation in history, was flying Air Force 1 and being ...READ»
Watching a World Stop
Makes This a Difficult Evening
Whose world this is I think I know.
Man’s home is on the soils below;
They have not seen me starting here
To watch their world fill up with ...READ»
The Right Age for Drinking Whatever When properly analyzed it becomes terribly obvious why the majority of Americans want to have the right age for the legal drinking of alcohol. Want to know why? Well, simply put, they are ...READ»
Now, who could possibly be the best? Even better who is married to anyone who can totally represent them when it comes to all of the issues we now face as a nation, state, city, county, etc.?
It is very obvious that no one can ...READ»
