The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
A Plausible Promise by John Robb of Global Guerrillas For an open source revolt (here’s some background on “open source insurgency“) to be successfully formed, it needs a plausible promise. A meta issue around which all of the different factions etc. can form (remember, most of the groups and individuals involved in an open source …
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Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market By Lisa Grossman October 19, 2010 The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is on a given day can foretell the direction of changes to the Dow Jones Industrial Average …
http://marketplace.unreasonableinstitute.org January 20, 2011 The Unreasonable Institute Empowers the Public to Choose the Next Wave of High-Impact Social Entrepreneurs Global donations will determine which entrepreneurs gain admission to esteemed mentorship program BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Starting Jan. 20, 45 social entrepreneurs will showcase their ventures in an online platform called the Unreasonable Finalist Marketplace (http://marketplace.unreasonableinstitute.org/). For 50 …
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Three ways to help people get things done A friend sent me a copy of a new book about basketball coach Don Meyer. Don was one of the most successful college basketball coaches of all time, apparently. It’s quite a sad book—sad because of his tragic accident, but also sad because it’s a vivid story …
The pleasant reassurance of new words It’s a lot easier for an organization to adopt new words than it is to actually change anything. Real change is uncomfortable. If it’s not feeling that way, you’ve probably just adopted new words.
The Clear-Hold-Build (C-H-B) strategy was first enunciated enthusiastically during the Bush Administration as the new counterinsurgency strategy to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. Actually, this strategy was merely an unimaginative regurgitation of Marshall Lautey’s “tache d’huile” (oil spot) strategy used to quell native uprisings during France colonial wars at the end …
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RE-THINK 2011 Cloud M&A Predictions Posted: 17 Jan 2011 11:35 AM PST Phi Beta Iota: Ric is the author of Rethink–A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation. Below we list only the eleven companies with links, and one additional reference. His complete posting with full paragraphs on each as well as context on …
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