E-M8 Entrepreneurial Management for Eternal Mission

I was a skeptic of Goldfire’s search capabilities, but yesterday, I saw a demo and was very very impressed. The words “power the switch” and “switch the power” produced cardinally different results, unlike any other search engine out there. The whole system is built to integrate with many unstructured data sources and delivers cross-language results [...]

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I am a huge fan of not for profit sector. I devote a lot of my time to charitable activities. I do believe that charitable organizations can become a more significant tool in shaping our world. Yet, today I will argue that charities are sometimes less effective than government. This is an argument for my [...]

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Much of business strategy and the like conversations start with an assumption that essentially all businesses are different and all have different goals. On the other hand, I started my analysis with the assumption that as human beings we all fundamentally want the same things (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs). What I found in the process [...]

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Greiner’s and other similar life cycle models of business seem to attempt to describe what happens (often blending it with a little bit of what should but does not happen) on the other hand I would love to focus on what should happen and how to guide leaders in to the growth steps that are [...]

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This summer I had an opportunity to learn a great teaching technique for Structured Thinking (TRIZ). Now I have an opportunity to start putting this stuff in practice and I am loving the impact that I see. Tough business and personal problems crumble in to simple solvable pieces. A work plan that allows sequencing is [...]

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