Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Matt Taibbi 6 Star Game Changer….Maybe November 2, 2010 This is an extraordinary book, combining gifted insights and turns of phrase with serious research that has a point worth fighting for: Wall Street led by Goldman Sachs has ripped off the entire US economy, and they still have most people thinking that politics matters. It …

Reference: How to Think Like Steve Jobs…Explore!

Very interesting……Jobs sees the same things as other leaders, but he perceives them differently. The key to thinking differently is perceiving things differently. To perceive things differently, you must be exposed to divergent ideas, places and people. This forces your brain to make connections it otherwise might miss. Steve Jobs has done this his entire …

Review (Guest): Innovation–The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want

Curtis R. Carlson (Author), William W. Wilmot (Author) 2.0 out of 5 stars This is a BAD book on innovation September 30, 2006 By ARMAN KIRIM, PhD (Istanbul, Turkey) – See all my reviews This is a BAD book on innovation As a matter of fact it is a bad book in the most general meaning …

Journal: BRICS Innovate Externally Not Internally

How BRIC Innovators Will Defeat You Michael Schrage 11:13 AM Thursday October 14, 2010 For reasons yet unclear, BRIC companies and entrepreneurs now consume roughly half my professional time. The Brazilian, Russian, Indian, and Chinese (BRIC) managers I meet are as sharp, credentialed, energetic, and hungry as their Silicon Valley or Rte. 128 counterparts. Sometimes …

Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Jane McGonigal

Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. (born 1977) is a game designer and games researcher, specializing in pervasive gaming and alternate reality games. She worked with alternate reality game design company 42 Entertainment from 2004 to 2006, on projects including I Love Bees (2004) as Community Lead / Puzzle Designer, and Last Call Poker (2005) as Live Events …