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What the Election Taught Us About Leadership and Marketing

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:29:40 -0500

Barack Obama's historic landslide victory provides many lessons about leadership--and about successful marketing. To name some of them:

A transformative, emotion-based, positive campaign will trump a narrow,negative, issues-based campaign. Obama inspired hope, and gave millions of people a voice and interest in presidential politics that they hadn’t had before. The last two party nominees to try this were also successful: John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan (remember “It’s morning in America”?)

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Are You Addicted To Being Addicted

Michael Searles — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:21:46 -0400

This is the third and final part of this series of posts at www.TalkingSober.com where we have been looking at the phenomenon of becoming addicted to the idea of being addicted .

I am suggesting this phenomenon is an evolutionary aspect of the modern day approach to 'recovery' that some addiction professionals and counselors create.

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Sustainability is NOT optional

Ruth Ann Barrett — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:40:36 -0400

There is much talk in the news about how when the economy tanks, sustainability and its consumer-focused cousin, the Green movement, are moved aside.

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Alcohol Is Not The Enemy

Michael Searles — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:41:51 -0400

Today is Saturday.

Melbourne, Australia today is expecting a top temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (approximately 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Hot thirsty weather!

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Innovation that Mimics Nature Can Lead to Amaaing Things

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:44:32 -0400

It's a big challenge to the Darwinian notion of "survival of the fittest": research shows that the species who thrive in nature are not the most competitive but the most able to take advantage of--and sometimes adapt to--opportunities.

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Ignore the Last Post--It's Not Done Yet

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:25:21 -0400

Frist it wiped out what I'd written, and then it posted when I added a title. I will write the post in Word and paste it in shortly.

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AMEX $2.5mil Members Project

Karine Demurchian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:41:15 -0400

I just learnt about this initiative this year and have submitted a project called Backyard Tree Nurseries. I'm waiting to hear whether our project made it to Top 25 projects, which will qualify it for Round 2 and possible winning of a share of $2.5mil split between top 5 winners.

http://www.membersproject.com/about/index.html

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Who and Why both Heaven and Hell were Created

David Gage — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:57:33 -0400

The Creation of Heaven and Hell

Chronologically speaking the concept of that place known as Heaven was created before that other place known as Hell. But where and when did these places come to be, at least in the minds of most people on this planet?

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Green MBA Trend: Are Tehse Students Ready to Make A Difference?

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:41:04 -0400

Thanks to the How Online blog, I found these two articles--and their juxtaposition is quite telling:

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The fourth sector

José Luiz Barbosa — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:13:14 -0400

Share ideas about social business and the uppcoming of the fourth sector

Social Responsibility in Guatemala

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:00:15 -0400

The reason I took several weeks off from my weekly Fast Company blog was that I was traveling in Guatemala

If you'll allow me the hubris of sharing an outsider's perspective after spending just a few weeks there, I'd like to make some observations:

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Buckminster Fuller Still Relevant in Today's Energy Crisis--Nukes are Not

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:57:38 -0400

Yeah, here we go again: gas gets expensive, and people who should know better start talking about nuclear.

If ever there was a really dumb idea, splitting atoms to generate electircity is it. This is something I know about: Back in 1974, I did a college research paper on the plusses and minuses of nuclear energy...and I discovered lots of minuses and not a single plus. My first book, co-authored with Richard Curtis and Elizabeth Hogan, was about this.

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Head Firmly in the Sand: Carbon Belch Day

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:08:32 -0400

Need an example of head-in-the-sand behavior! June 12, I found out on the radio tonight, was Carbon Belch Day:

Proud of their antisocial tendencies, these yo-yos wanted to be as environmentally destructive as possible that day, asking people to unleash their maximum carbon footprint in order to

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the Inside Out

Mark Goulston — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:33:16 -0400

So if you're walking down the street sometime and you should spot some hollow ancient eyes, don't you pass them by and stare as if you didn't care. Say, "Hello in there. Hello." - Bette Midler (song and lyrics by John Prine)

You don't have to be ancient to have hollow eyes. Look anyone in the eye who has been traumatized by war, rape or a horrendous natural disaster and you will see that they are not all there.

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GOP Promotes Neanderthal US Energy Policy

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:46:15 -0400

The U.S. Senate did a couple of very stupid things regarding energy policy yesterday. In both cases, Democrats were unable to get the 60 votes needed to stop a Republican filibuster.

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The Future of Green... Everything (Cross-Post)

Brian Reich — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:18:40 -0400

(I posted this earlier today on my Fast Company Experts blog and was encouraged to cross-post it here. I hope you will read it and contact me if you are interested in collaborating on this important topic)

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Your account has been cancelled

Tim Tymchyshyn — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:32:37 -0400

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The Story of the Incredibly Shrinking Brands And The Role Values Can Play in Making Them Big Again

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:01:50 -0400

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The Story of the Incredibly Shrinking Brands And The Role Values Can Play in Making Them Big Again

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Act for Change, Even When You Don't Think You Can Make Change

Shel Horowitz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:15:05 -0400

Caution: This post contains overtly political material. Even businesses have to think about politics.

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It's hard.

Dana Elliott Srither — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:35:38 -0400

I have launched a sponsored initiative in our country. See http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/339231/1/.html for our local news on this.

Subsequently, getting the public or even the grassroots interested is throwing up hurdles and reasons for not doing it. Sure, they may say that they will love to help out, but in reality you just have to take their public speeches with a pinch of salt.

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Event in NYC on Globalization and Sustainable Development

Christine Bullen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:49:05 -0400

An important issue to me is the exetension of social responsibility by corporations to include their outsourcing service providers and supply chain partners. I am part of a new non-profit organization that is focused on social and economic impacts of global sourcing, called The Global Sourcing Council - http://www.gscouncil.org

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Announcing a new and innovative way to lessen our environmental impact while saving money at the same time.

Deborah Maahs — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:34:35 -0500

I just launched my new business Myfashionswap.com. The idea of the business is simple, provide an on-line venue where ladies can get together on a national level to swap out their wardrobes for something fresh and new without having to buy new. Helping their wallets while at the same time the environment.

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Monthly Calls: Possible Speakers

Edward Sussman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:37:54 -0500

We're going to begin to have monthly calls featuring noted speakers. We'd love some suggestions as to whom Fast Company should invite to participate. Who are the big names in socially responsible business practices, the green movement, sustainable energy, microfinancing and other relevant topics that you'd most like the opportunity to hear and speak with?

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Shel Horowitz — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:04:12 -0500

Organizations are finding better ways to do good, above and beyond the traditional boundaries of charity. They're using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems – such as achieving sustainability -- all while making a profit.

Coordinators for this group are: Karma Martell and Shel Horowitz.