The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Net Positive: A Conversation with Clay Shirky in Media | October 14th, 2010 EXTRACT: My current formulation is that markets supply less accountability than democracies demand—that if you leave the presence of accountability to an entirely market-driven press corps, you get less coverage than democracies need to survive. And we’ve had all of these ways …
Seven Challenges 1. Restoring Belief in the Future to Overcome Fear, Pessimism, and Passivity 2. Cultivating Leaders Who are Thoughtful, Inspiring, and Think Long-Term 3. Empowering Six Billion People Economically and Politically 4. Harmonizing Cultural, Racial, and Gender Differences in a Globalizing World 5. Reinventing an Outdated Educational System for the 21st Century 6. Guiding …
Preventing Torture in the 21st Century: Monitoring in Europe Two Decades On, Monitoring Globally Two Years On Part II Cover Page and Acknowledgements Table of Contents (A4 Online Accessible Version) Table of Contents (A5 Print Version)
China-US-Vietnam: Defense Minister Liang Guanglie held talks with US Defense Secretary Gates in Hanoi on Monday on the sidelines of the 1st ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) on bilateral military ties. Defense Minister Liang invited Gates to visit China early next year, a Chinese official said. Gates accepted the invitation, according to the deputy …
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Down to Earth, Absorbing, Perfectly Presented, “Must Read” October 10, 2010 Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback I’m putting this book into the 6 Star and Beyond category at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog, for two reasons: it has a proper definition of what business should be about–creativity and humanity; and it strives to …
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Existing WordPress Search produces two hits: Review: The New Age of Innovation–Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks Review: Information Payoff–The Transformation of Work in the Electronic Age Although books are listed in the first and authors in the second, this is a good opportunity to list the very special group of books that have shaped–along …
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About 3 hours ago Sarah Kessler 9 Why Social Media Is Reinventing Activism The argument that social media fosters feel-good clicking rather than actual change, began long before Malcolm Gladwell brought it up in the New Yorker — long enough to generate its own derogatory term. “Slacktivism,” as defined by Urban Dictionary, is “the act …
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