Topic: Thomas Friedman

Tokyo Eco-Startup Fullcircle Innovations Is Announced as a Finalist in Red Herring 100 Asia Prize

Solving climate change is a big challenge that will require cooperation and innovation on a global scale. Tokyo startup Fullcircle Innovations is taking on this challenge with its offerings at GreenITers.com and EcoAppsFree.com.READ»

The Meaning of Friendship in a Social Networked World

In an era of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social network platforms, what is the meaning of true friendship?READ»

13 Business Books That Will Blow Your Mind

There are business books that teach you how to balance your ledger, hire the right people, and manage your cash flow. These aren't those books. These are the books that open your mind to new ways of doing business. Take a look at these 13 mind-blowing business books and add your own suggestions on what was left out.READ»

Cut Capital Gains, Not Incentives – Entrepreneurial Support is the Key to Economic Growth

Businesses and new ventures need more than one year to get off the ground and begin generating revenue and profits for investors. One year of capital gains cuts won’t cut it.READ»

Want to Know How Lebron James and Renewable Energy Are Similar?

Depending on who you talk to, Cleveland forward Lebron James may or may not be the best basketball player alive. But nobody can deny his greatness: he scored the last 25 points in a conference finals overtime game against the ...READ»

Crib Sheet: John Doerr, the Kingmaker Behind the Bloom Box

With all systems go for the Bloom Box, the quarter-of-a-mil fuel device that's supposed to be the savior of the universe, here's a refresher course on the money man from venture capital powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...READ»

5 Lessons for Smart Grid Business Success

Learn these five lessons for Winning in the Smart Grid Space...READ»

The Golden Rule of Business

Do business with others as you would have them do business with you.As it is said — this is the whole of the Law; the rest is commentary.‘Do unto others’ is the sum total of every inspiring word every written or spoken about ...READ»

The Central Park International Airport Hoax, Explained

The Internet raged in response to a shadowy organization's plans to raze New York's Central Park in favor of an airport, Strawberry Fields be damned. We unravel the mystery.READ»

10 Trends that Will Keep the Green Economy Growing

There is no saying what the business world will do the in short term, but these long term trends are a good bet to keep growing the green business world in the years ahead: 1. Oil will cost more There’s only ...READ»

Korea Shoots For The Moon Using Green Energy

For some, the present financial crises signals a defense against the many variables of an uncertain future. For others, it is the impetus to create the future of our imaginations. Nations with an emphasis on sustainability are about to emerge as the architects of the new global economy.READ»

Crazy Ideas + Youth = Innovative Solutions

This past weekend, The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a compelling op-ed piece which told the inspiring tale of two young students who started a national, youth movement for energy reform in India. It started out as a ...READ»

Hail to the Chief Green

In just a few days President-elect Obama will be President Obama.  The economy remains the main agenda item, but this does not mean that environmental initiatives are being left behind.  With just a few days left before he takes ...READ»

Is it just a finacial crisis we are in?

My partner Gregg sent me an article from New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman entitled “Time to Reboot America”.  Quite a good article and I want to just quote on key section form it. “…we’ve fallen into a trend of ...READ»

Offshoring and Insourcing

In my book about recession-proof jobs, one of the criteria I used in selecting the recession-proof jobs was that they not be on the list of occupations that the U.S. Department of Labor considers vulnerable to offshoring. I can’t ...READ»

The Power to Convene and Set Context

While working at the World Bank as a Knowledge Analyst in the late 90s I witnessed a significant change in how knowledge was amassed and applied for greatest impact. Previously, the emphasis had been on certain individuals, those ...READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

OUTGREENING THE STATUS QUO

 I just finished reading the new book from Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded. It is a real eye opener and not for those with a weak heart. After the credit crunch, he says we are very close to the climate crunch. He makes it ...READ»

Summer Reading: Why More People Are Listening to Books

Fast Interview: In this Q&A, Audible founder and CEO Donald Katz talks about what's popular this summer, the business of the spoken word, how life has changed since Amazon acquired his company, and why the "no asshole rule" is a vital corporate principle.READ»

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The Future of Work

Why the future of work could become child's play.READ»

Feedback

Medical Tourism / Our May cover story -- on Silicon Valley startup Ning and its CEO, Gina Bianchini -- attracted plenty of interest, but it was a thornier subject that drew the broadest range of comment: the outsourcing of health care ...READ»

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An Inconvenient Economy

On Friday, the price of oil jumped a record $10.75 per barrel, to more than $138, immediately sending the dollar into a freefall and causing the Dow Jones to ask for a sick-day. Meanwhile, unemployment rose at a record-setting pace ...READ»

Collaborative Socialutions . . . Where Does Collaboration Fit In?

  The social web seems to attract a lot of definitional redefining, whether by adding numbers after a term like Collaboration 2.0, Business 3.0, or Office 4.0, or by combining two previously independent words into ...READ»

In Praise of Spikes

In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.READ»

• Where Art Thou?

Scuttling Scut Work

Pfizer devises a new kind of outsourcing--just for the time-wasting parts of your job.READ»

• How Much Work Can You Off-Load?