A potpourri of international CEOs, a Nobel prize winner, management visionary and Bill Clinton.
The bloggers hub got off to a slow start the morning of day 2 due in part to a tasty and lively bloggers dinner the night before. Nevertheless, we were treated to another action packed day capped off by an address by [...]

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Positive Social Media Adrenaline Amps Up Business Events

Reporting live on Day 1 as a featured blogger at the World Business Forum (#wbf09) at Radio City Music hall in NYC. A beautiful day in the Big Apple for a Big Idea business conference.
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Even before the speeches begin one of the event’s unique features is [...]

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We have been very fortunate to have James Patterson, the world’s best selling author, be a part of the Asset-Based Thinking positive conspiracy. Jim is an exceptionally talented man and a great fan of asset-based thinking. Jim wrote the foreword for our first book as well as our recently published teen book. One of Jim’s [...]

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With all the back and forth over bailouts, stimulus plans, budget crises, opinion polls and the talking heads that comment on all of it, I  had reached my Deficit-Based Thinking quota for the month. And, just when I was about ready to tune out, I came across two separate but related examples of ABT in [...]

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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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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. When we lived in NYC our apartment was on 81St. and Central Park West…the very epicenter and beginning of The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For our family and friends Thanksgiving was an evening and day long celebration of all the great things we all treasured [...]

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With all the turmoil in the Global economies and the constant barrage of Deficit Based Thinking News about the excesses of Corporate CEO’s you just have admire the Asset-Based Thinking leadership of Haruka Nishimatsu, CEO of Japan Airlines. His ABT leadership is featured in a wonderful CNN Video Report.
Mr. Nishimatsu put three fundamental [...]

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I thought I’d use today’s blog to do a little bragging about The Concept Farm and provide some examples of ABT in Action in the workplace. First, the bragging. This week, The Concept Farm was named one of the Top 20 Best Places to Work in New York City by Crain’s New York Business.

Among [...]

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While I was in NYC last week I had the opportunity to attend a charity fund raiser held by a great organization called Overcoming Obstacles.
Launched in 1992 by the Jill Chalsty and the  Community for Education Foundation, Overcoming Obstacles is a grassroots program that helps educators teach young people basic “life” skills so often overlooked [...]

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I came across a great blog that is dedicated to helping shape how we communicate and market to the youth of America. http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/index.php. Amy Jussel started Shaping Youth a few years ago as a nonprofit organization addressing media & marketing’s impact on kids and teens. Here’s a quote from the website
“Shaping Youth is a nonprofit [...]

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