The sky is falling….maybe
The beginning of the afternoon at the World Business Forum can best be summed up as a sobering barrage of the pitfalls, perils, and problems ahead of us. David Rubenstein, founder of the Carlyle Group, the world’s largest private equity firm, presented a non-stop litany of facts to drive home his admonition [...]

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Sitting in the front row in the Bloggers Hub at The World Business Forum. Wired, ready to go and surrounded by 50 of the best bloggers on the planet. A bit intimidating. These are some of the most savvy social media folks around, smart thinkers, great writers and they type a lot faster than me.
Undaunted, [...]

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Creating this post has inspired me to borrow and slightly change a famous Tom Cruise line from the film, Jerry Maguire. “Show Me The Assets” That will be the focus and lens through which I’ll be creating my blog posts at next week’s World Business Forum. Asset-Based Thinking In Action

The World Business Forum brings together [...]

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Last week I saw a great example of Asset-Based Thinking in action when I watched a VIDEO of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press conference about a new Citywide initiative called “Pass It On”. The “Pass It On”  press release describes it as the first of its kind in the nation program specifically designed [...]

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While I was at The Concept Farm last week I received a call from a New York Post reporter, Holly Sanders, who covers the business and marketing “beat” in NYC. Holly is a sharp reporter and she knows that she can always count on the “Farmers” for some creative insights and good ole’ NY savvy.
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The December 8, 2008 issue of Advertising Age carried an interesting article entitled “Five Tips to Cope - or Even Thrive - Through Downturn”.
There are lots of these types of articles lately, but there are three things about this one that are particularly interesting to me.
1. It’s based on an Ad Age white paper prepared [...]

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