Topic: Thomas Friedman

PR Smackdown: You Pick the Winner

I received three intriguing PR pitches yesterday. You pick the winner: Contestant #1: UPS delivers a copy of Thomas Friedman's new book, "The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century." The book is mounted in a ...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»

Pop!Tech: Friedman On the New Patriotism

He didn’t have a velvet jacket. He didn’t play thrash guitar. But Thomas Friedman managed to grip the post-lunch audience at Pop!Tech with a straightforward message: This is not your parents’ energy crisis. Friedman’s genius ...READ»

Facing Up to Face-To-Face

A couple of weeks ago, Steven Johnson, an author who blogs for The New York Times, discussed the issue of virtual communication and social connections. His jumping off point was a column by Thomas Friedman in the same newspaper that ...READ»

Musical interlude from Pop!Tech

It’s hard to imagine a situation where Thomas Friedman would have a hard act to follow. I just witnessed it at Poptech! A pair of young Mexican musicians called Rodrigo and Gabriella. The most sensational guitar performance I’ve ...READ»

Car Talk

In another excellent column about Iraq, the New York Times' Thomas Friedman quotes Harvard prez Larry Summers: "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car." Although neatniks might quibble with the veracity of ...READ»

Books Worth a Look

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs have announced the finalists in this year's Book of the Year Award, which include: John Battelle, The Search Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, ...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»

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»

Carolyn Woo

The Promise of Fast Education In a marketplace where information and connectivity are ubiquitous, a company's number-one competitive advantage is ideas and the capability to act on them quickly. But while speed is critical, it is ...READ»

Fast Company's Best Books of 2005

Forgive us for blowing past the new year before getting up what may be the last best of 2005 list you'll read, but we hope it's worth the wait. We were hibernating with a collection of 1950's advertising satires and lost track of ...READ»

Innovation Wednesday: Ripped from the headlines

The crack team of researchers here at InnoWed have scoured today's papers and news sites so you don't have to. Happy reading. "If it's so good, why aren't you doing it?" - That, reports Thomas Friedman in The New York Times, is ...READ»

EntrepreneurshipWeek USA at Stanford

via Guy Kawasaki The Kauffman Foundation is launching EntrepreneurshipWeek USA from February 23rd to March 3rd. The theme is "What's Your Big Idea? Take it On!" There will be educational programs around the country. Stanford is ...READ»

What the Pop!Tech Gurus Read

The bibliography of books written by this year’s Pop!Tech speakers is pretty staggering, from Richard Dawkins’s new book, The God Delusion, to Thomas Barnett’s Blueprint for Action, to Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat, to ...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?

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»

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»

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»

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»

The Costco Buzz

"How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart," read the headline in the New York Times last Sunday. Old news, I thought to myself. We highlighted Costco founder Jim Sinegal in our Customers First Awards last year. Seemingly all the business ...READ»

Summer Reading With a Twist

A second look at some smart books that coulda--and shoulda--been best-sellers.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»

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»

• The Best Business Books of 2007

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»

• Updates

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»