Heading up the political segment of PUSH 2008, "Leaders in Reverse: Playing Short-Term Gains against Long-Term Needs," U.N. correspondent for Al Jazeera English Mark Seddon decided to speak from the platform of personal ...READ»
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»
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»
In an e-mail today addressed to her supporters, Hillary Clinton offered her thanks and expressed a willingness to help the Democratic party unite behind Senator Obama. On Saturday, she plans to hold an event in Washington that will ...READ»
On conference stages and in print recently many have declared and forcefully written that; creativity will become the driving engine for this new economy. Like "Knowledge" before it, and "Manufacturing" before ...READ»
I just read Danielle Sacks’ post on Europeans Hearting Obama, which stirred me into a heartfelt response of my own…
When you think about it, Barack Obama, the human being, is in many ways the polar opposite of President ...READ»
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(this time to the Fast Talk...when will people want to watch full ...READ»
Notice that I did not indicate whether business was BIG or small. Of the three front runners - Obama, Clinton and McCain - currently in the presidential race for their party's nomination, who will be the "President for ...READ»
The Building Great Teams Project. Here we are standing at the doorstep within the 2008 economy knocking hard to come inside. Only, the door remains shut with no answer. We continue to knock, and knock hoping that someone would open ...READ»
Coming Soon: Nontrepreneur Nation
How parenting and education are killing American entrepreneurship and innovation
Despite how U.S. students continue to lag far behind those in
Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and ...READ»
Anyoe else disgusted by the missed opportunity in the presidential debate? So much focus on trivia: the meaning of Wright's comments, or Barack's comment about bitterness.
Hey, folks--we want to know your plans to end the war, ...READ»
Two days ago I received a FWD to my inbox that I'd received once
before, but deleted it after reading only the first two lines. This
time I read it in full.
YIKES!
A feeling of disgust that I'd deleted the FWD the first ...READ»
