Topic: Barack Obama

Bonuses Versus the Big Picture

2 February 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com   On his ninth day in office, President Obama took a broad swipe at Wall Street, calling the $18.4 billion in bonuses for 2008 "the height of irresponsibility" and ...READ»

How Social Media Got Out the Vote

There was a lot of coverage about how the candidates used — or didn't use — social media to garner supporters. But what about how social media sites galvanized their members to go out and vote? From imeem to Facebook, here are a few examples.READ»

• How to Build A Brand Like Obama
• Brand Obama Thrills Broadcasters with Record Ad Spend, But Cheap Video and Democracy Are the Big Winners

We're All Replaceable

Lots of conversation yesterday about President Obama's $500,000 cap on senior executive pay for the distressed financial institutions receiving bailout money.  While I try most of the time to keep my political opinions to myself, I ...READ»

Barack Obama: Bridging the Racial Divide

In his column for the Washington Post published on Sunday, November 2, 2008, David Broder stated the following in the article he entitled, An Admirable Campaign Journey: “In what history may record as his singular ...READ»

Need for focus on Climate Change, Innovation by Presidential Candidates

Given the historic U.S. Presidential election that is now only hours away, I thought it appropriate to take a cursory look at how Senators John McCain and Barack Obama view invention, entrepreneurship, and specifically innovations ...READ»

Obama’s Fate: Can Effective Mobilization Override a Bradley Effect?

As we head into the election on November 4, 2008, many people are wondering whether we will see a “Bradley Effect.” Currently in national polls, Obama is leading McCain by a healthy margin. But will his race as an African ...READ»

A New Paradigm for Publishing?

This morning the first printed copies of my most recent book, Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan, arrived at the JIST offices. Here in New Jersey I’m going to have to wait a little longer to get my hands on a copy, but it ...READ»

Leadership Lessons from... Presidential Toys

If you had the ability to ask John McCain and Barack Obama just one question, what would it be? Would you query them about their economic policy? The War in Iraq? Education? Taxes? Even with all the accusations of media bias ...READ»

Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash

The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact. READ»

Red, White, Blue and Green - What the Election Means for the Green Economy

It’s hard to believe, but after a long hard campaign the election is almost here finally, just a few days away. What will the results of the election mean for the green economy? Both Barack Obama and John McCain have said they ...READ»

Memes From My Father—Silly Internet Fun with Barack Obama's Life Story

If you thought a pot-smoking Olympic athlete was bad, wait until you hear a trash-talking President. Call it Memes from My Father–the latest Internet sensation involves silly fun with Barack Obama’s life story.READ»

Broadband, Science, Greenness Trimmed From Obama's Stimulus Fund

President Obama may have promised an eco-friendly and science-centric term in office, but it looks like the Washington political machine has other ideas right from the start. The economic recovery "stimulus" funding package has just ...READ»

Will Obama be the Ethics President?

One of the really astounding things about this election is that no matter how hard they dug, neither the Clinton campaign nor the McCain campaign could come up with any meaningful "dirt" on Obama. Is it possible that in ...READ»

From High-Tech Leader to President O-Spamma--What Happened?

Before he sat in the Oval Office, Barack Obama promised the world a high-tech, pro-science presidency. And over the last weeks his promise has come true: The Administration has embraced the high-tech world of spamming. Or is that ...READ»

How Obama Won It With the Web

Both candidates used the Internet to reach America's voters. But Team Obama mastered the medium early and exploited it to the hilt: from an active texting strategy to the MyBarackObama.com social networking site. And along the way, Obama's technology strategy changed the face of politics -- and perhaps the U.S. government -- forever.READ»

• How to Build A Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called Obama
• All Politics Is Microtargeting

Ethics Issues Could Tarnish Obama's Administration

Consistently during the transition, President-elect Obama vowed to vet his picks carefully for ethics issues. But althugh he borught more care and atention to these issues than any president in my memory, just two weeks into this new ...READ»

Our Lives Just Changed. Forever. And For The Better.

Obama wins. America gets a new service innovation capability. It took only seconds after McCain's concession last night for e-mails to start arriving from Brazil, Malaysia, and Europe. The most significant one, in my opinion, ...READ»

Obama's Use of Social Media: Less Than Adequate?

I have lots of thoughts about the Election, and especially the use of technology and social media by the Obama campaign.  My brain is fried from two years of tracking every twist and turn in the campaign cycle, so I don't know how ...READ»

48 Laws of Obama: Strategy Expert Robert Greene on How Barack Made History

On May 20, 2008, Barack Obama won the state of Oregon. No matter what opinion people made about Obama "not being ready to lead" a bi-racial man with a Muslim father and a Christan mother had taken one more step toward entering the ...READ»

Obama's Victory: The Torch has Been Passed and The Responsibility is Now Shared

It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you make happen. Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States. Yes we need change, but even more importantly is that we need to change. It is true that unless ...READ»

Fast Company Expert Blog Community Weighs In On Obama's Victory

Fast Company's community of expert bloggers share their thoughts on Obama's victory, the election, and what comes next.READ»

Obama, the Future-Friendly President, Wins Nobel Peace Prize

This morning the World had a bit of a surprise: The Nobel Prize Committee announced its choice for the Peace Prize as President Barack Obama (the subject of Fast Company's April 2008 cover story, "The Brand Called Obama"). Few people ...READ»

Everything You Need to Know About the Stimulus Is Online

If you listen to the news, you'd think that President Obama's $819 billion stimulus package was drawn up in watercolor. What will get funded? Which states will get money? What are the parameters? A new website launched this week ...READ»

Excellent Leadership is Innovation - Just Ask Obama

Even in a business blog, it is not possible to sit down on this historic morning to compose a piece about leadership and innovation without talking about Barack Obama. The Obama leadership equation for two years has been Obama = ...READ»

Gen Y and the Presidential Election

World, meet Generation Y. If you weren't aware of them yet, you couldn't miss them on Election Day. Barack Obama’s victory is the biggest and most inspiring example yet of the growing influence of Generation Y (born approx. ...READ»