Yoda: Financial Times Loves Google — But Will This Love Keep Google Going?

FT interview with Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page Even the search engine’s original mission is not big enough for what he now has in mind Page estimates that only about 50 investors are chasing the real breakthrough technologies that have the potential to make a material difference to the lives of most people on …

Review: Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives Second Edition

Roger George 5.0 out of 5 stars A Status Quo Book, Improved from 1st Edition, Still Pulls Punches, October 30, 2014 This is a very fine book, not least because of its inclusion of Jack Davis (search for <analytic tradecraft> as well as Carmen Medina (see them both at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence …

Robert Steele: PBI at Twitter & Facebook, Robert at Twitter & LinkedIn

Phi Beta Iota is under a new management team and going to another level, at the same time that Earth Intelligence Network is revitalizing and I will be spending  time with a team recreating the very popular weekly global threat, policy, and demographic report. A sample from the past is below. PDBweekly20070716 Phi Beta Iota …

Robert Horn: Visualizing World’s Biggest Problems

Robert Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in public policy, organizational strategy, and knowledge management. These days, he deals mostly with social messes. Social messes are more than complicated problems. I define them as tightly interconnected clusters of wicked problems and other messes. They are very complex; ambiguous; highly constrained; seen differently …

Jean Lievens: The sharing economy – make it sustainable

The sharing economy: make it sustainable Damien Demailly; Anne-Sophie Novel Studies N°03/2014. Iddri, 2014. 32 p. Is the sharing economy a tool for ecological transition? The main objective of this report is to analyse the environmental potential of the sharing economy, considered in its full diversity, and the conditions for the realization of this potential.