The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Phi Beta Iota: they have been scorned out of existing twice now, but evidently Mike Bloomberg and his friends have not given up kludging together three failures to try to make lemonade, all three corrupt to the bone: Independent Voters / Jackie Salit, well-funded stalking horse for Bloomberg, does not play well with others and …
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Two Interviews on Competitive Intelligence – Richard Horowitz and Cynthia Cheng Correia Carnegie Council Competitive Ethics Just Business July 3, 2012 JULIA TAYLOR KENNEDY: Welcome to Just Business. I’m Julia Taylor Kennedy. Thomas Jefferson once said, “I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.” One field that …
Strategic Lessons from the Rand Paul Fiasco “Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.”—Lenin …by Moti Nissani, Ph.D. Prof. Emeritus, Wayne State University Rand Paul Summary: For many years, the liberty movement’s aspirations and actions have been focused on the presidential candidacy of Congressman Ron Paul. In Early June, this strategy backfired, following …
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Richly deserving of careful attention. The Emerging Fourth Sector The Three Traditional Sectors Businesses create and distribute goods and services that enhance our quality of life, promote growth, and generate prosperity. They spur innovation, reward entrepreneurial effort, provide a return on investment and constantly improve their performance responding to market feedbacks. They draw on the …
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Phi Beta Iota: The full combination of pieces is strongly recommended as a total read. The contributing author whose work has been forwarded by Brother John makes a fundamental ethical and intellectual mistake, assuming that there is a significant difference between the Democratic and Republican parties. Not so. This is not an either/or choice between …
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DeadUshahidi: Neither Dead Right Nor Dead Wrong There’s a new Crowdmap in town called DeadUshahidi. The site argues that “Mapping doesn’t equal change. Using crowdsourcing tech like Ushahidi maps without laying the strategic and programmatic ground work is likely not going to work. And while we think great work has been done with crowdsourced reporting, there is …
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Peer Production and Co-Production: A New Approach to Solving Common Problems Together – College Open Textbooks Community Aalto University in Finland has a new publication: Towards Peer Production in Public Services: Cases from Finland available for free download. The book’s description reads: “There are many challenges and opportunities in designing, developing and maintaining services for participatory modes of governance, not …
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