GM is hemorrhaging cash and wants to merge with Chrysler. Banks are buying and dying like lottery-winning centenarians. GM and Chrysler say a merger would make for a stronger, more competitive company. The buying-banks argue that they’ll be in a better position...
Barack Obama tapped into the Groundswell during his campaign. He recognized that people were connecting with each other to get the things they need, rather than going to traditional institutions. He recognized the power of a bottom-up strategy and how an army of...
We’re all connected. We have the entire sum of human genius and misery at our fingertips. Given that, I’m constantly befuddled by people who don’t at least try to understand the whole, rather than just the parts. You have to understand the context of...
Driving home one day, I noticed a shiny white BMW 3 Series with seriously dark tinted windows and a personalized “vanity” license plate. The license plate had attitude. Suave confidence bordering cockiness. I decided the driver was obviously cool. James...
Visual thinking for the day 🙂 Ok, so, big corporations are… well, big. Brilliant insight, I know. Bear with me. They’re big, change-resisting, money-making machines. But, at some point they were small, nimble and entrepreneurial. Jujitsu is a martial art...
