When the mayhem in the financial world let loose in the fall of 2008, I was the COO of an international corporate finance company. It didn’t matter how long you had done business with a counterparty, how much money they had made with you in the past, or if they had introduced you as their…read more
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
I don’t know about you, but I find it a little disturbing when I see politicians stand up and say that the administration’s entire economic team should be fired because they haven’t created enough jobs. First of all, governments don’t create jobs, businesses do. Secondly, governments can create environments that promote jobs, but its effectiveness…read more
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The opportunity to redevelop the real estate industry such that it contributes to the solutions the world is seeking, instead of continuing to pile on to the multitude of challenges, is huge. Such challenges include the energy crisis, climate change, natural resource preservation, population growth, urban sprawl with ineffective infrastructure, and a lack of sustainable…read more
Monday, May 31st, 2010
“Settling for a pale version of the possible” is my favorite line in Tony Schwartz’ new book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working. It’s in essence the question that we so often avoid because it gets to the core of our most intimate desire to be the best that we can be. Those with the…read more
Monday, May 10th, 2010
As someone who dreams up creative ways to engage customers and helps companies update their business models to thrive in the 21st century, I find myself often thinking about the healthcare system and how desperately it needs an updated model. There have been a couple of news spots recently on healthcare providers starting to do…read more
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
If you read my blog on a regular basis, you know that I feel strongly that the global financial crisis and ensuing economic recession was not necessarily due to too much risk taking, but more to do with a glut of certain types of risk taking and a real lack of other types of risk…read more
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Overtime, many businesses end up evolving through the lens of problem solving and not through the lens of what they want to create. When you take the time to focus on what differentiates a company from its competition, what value it brings to its clients and the world, and what it really wants to become,…read more
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Last month, I attended the Front End Innovation Europe Conference (FEI Europe) held in Amsterdam. One of the highlights was seeing the car in the picture above in person. Yes, they drove it into a large conference room inside the Hilton Hotel. It is the 2010 BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept car, and it is even…read more
